When it's cold and windy outside, a pudding strikes all the right chords. This recipe also works well with pears.
Apple and candied ginger self-saucing pudding
Rodney Dunn's recipe for a comforting apple and ginger self-saucing pudding brings together warming winter flavours with a sweet and syrupy sauce of brown sugar and golden syrup.
- 20 mins preparation
- 55 mins cooking
- Serves 6
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Ingredients
- 800 gm (about 4) apples (such as Granny Smith or golden delicious), peeled, cored and each cut into 8 wedges
- 50 gm caster sugar
- 150 gm butter, melted, plus extra for greasing
- 190 gm (1¼ cups) self-raising flour
- 165 gm (¾ cup) brown sugar
- 125 ml (½ cup) milk
- 45 gm crystallised ginger, thinly sliced
- 1 egg
- 115 gm (1/3 cup) golden syrup
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- To serve: cream or ice-cream and ground cinnamon
Method
Main
- 1Cook apples, caster sugar and 50gm butter in a frying pan over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until caramelised (7-8 minutes). Set aside to cool.
- 2Preheat oven to 180C. Butter a 1.5-litre (6-cup) ovenproof dish or six 350ml shallow ovenproof bowls and spoon in apple mixture. Combine flour and 55gm brown sugar in a bowl, add milk, egg, candied ginger, 2 tbsp golden syrup and remaining butter and stir until smooth, then spoon batter over apples, spreading to cover.
- 3Combine cornflour and remaining brown sugar in a bowl and sprinkle over batter. Stir remaining golden syrup and 375ml boiling water in a jug and gently pour onto topping over the back of a spoon. Bake until golden brown and a skewer inserted comes out clean (40-45 minutes, or 20-25 minutes for individual puddings). Serve hot with cream or ice-cream, dusted with cinnamon.
Notes
Drink Suggestion: Botrytis-affected pinot gris. Drink suggestion by Max Allen