Christmas pudding is a steamed rich fruit pudding served during the dinner on Christmas. I have read about the Christmas pudding in an Agatha Christie novel in which Poirot visits a house during Christmas and solves a mystery. The ruby which he came in search of would be found in one of the puddings served on Christmas. I never thought that I will be making Christmas pudding. When I was going through my book shelf I saw this novel and decided on doing it at home. Traditionally pudding has eggs, suet ( a type of fat from animals) and alcohol. I decided to make an eggless, suet free, alcohol free pudding at home. I saw a vegetarian version of the pudding at Titli’s Kitchen but still it had eggs. So I adapted Titli’s recipe according to my preference and ended with a flavourful, delicious, moist, rich pudding. This is steamed for 6 hours and once cool you need to remove it from the mould. I am having this pudding mould for so many years but never once used it. And finally it came to use and I am so so happy for recreating this in my kitchen.
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Yummy akka and surely am going to try this
good to see that u used the rice cooker.. otherwise thinking GAS consumption 😀 good one 😀
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wow that is so beautiful!! 6 hours of steaming!!! that is lot of time!!
Sowmya
It looks yummy. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
wonderful Gayatri.
Does the rice cooker have water in it Gayathri..or you simply place in pan and have it on for 6 hrs?..the pudding has come out so well!
Yes Valli, you need to add water in rice cooker and keep on maintaining the water level, else it will go to warm mode…
Hi gayathri. . Could u give me an idea about doing it pressure cooker? ?
Hi, You can add water in the cooker, place the pudding inside, cover and cook. Do not add the whistle. Just steam it like we do for idlis. Every now and then check the water level and add more water.
Can we quicken the process by using the whistle? 6hrs seems daunting! 🙂
This is a steamed pudding Divya. I don’t think pressure cooking it is a great idea. It needs a little experimenting…
delicious.. perfect for christmas..
Hi gayathri…..I am a regular follow er of ur blog…..pl tell me if I steam in pressure cooker how lnog do I steam approximately?
It takes the same time Samjeeta. Remove the whistle and steam the pudding. Keep on checking the water level.
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Can you tell me if i can use fresh plums in this recipe? Or can you suggest any other recipe to use fresh plums?
Thank you. Cam across your blog only recently. Enjoying going thru all the recipes.
Hi Prema, it is better to use dry fruits in the recipe. Fresh fruits may alter the outcome. With plum you can make plum jam or puree it and use it in a cake recipe.