AIP Christmas Pudding - Free from everything but not taste
The best Christmas pudding (according to my husband) and it's "free from"
Ingredients
- 150 g raisins
- 100 g currants
- 50 g prunes chopped
- 50 g dried apricots chopped
- 25 g fresh or dried mixed peels
- 50 g flaked almonds or sunflower seeds (for nut free) or omit altogether for AIP
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground mace
- 30 g coconut oil (at room temperature)
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp cream of tartar
- 2 pears pureed - with skin
Flours
- 25 g cassava (tapioca) or arrowroot flour
- 100 g ground almonds or tigernut flour (tigernut flour makes it AIP compliant / nut-free)
Liquid - 150 ml in total with 2 options, either the boozy option or the alcohol free one
Liquid - option 1
- 150 ml apple juice
Liquid - option 2
- 100 ml apple juice
- 50 ml brandy
Instructions
- Mix all the dry ingredients together
- Ensure the solid coconut oil is coating all the dried fruits and avoid big lumps
- Add the juice, pureed pear and finally the "flours"
- Put the mixture in a pudding dish, cover it and steam it for 4-5 hours, until it is a dark caramel colour
- (if it's not after 5 hours, keep going, I have steamed mine for 6 hours once).
- But do check the water occasionally, to make sure it doesn't run dry.
- Reheat on the day in a bain marie (water bath) for a couple of hours or in the microwave (for 4-5 mins)