A traditional bread and butter pudding cooked with fresh figs and caramel sauce. The pudding is cooked with VarioSteam® for a fluffy and golden finish. Extra caramel sauce, fresh figs and a dollop of cream will make this a dessert favourite.
Function: Added Steam, Circo Therm®
Caramel Sauce
¾ cup (165 g) caster sugar
¼ cup (60 ml) water
¼ cup (55 g) brown sugar
½ cup (125 ml) thickened cream
¼ teaspoon salt
Pudding
8 slices (about 350 g) stale sliced white bread
50 g butter, softened
4 figs, trimmed and sliced thickly
300 ml milk
300 ml thickened cream
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla essence
½ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground nutmeg
2 extra figs, trimmed and quartered
Double cream to serve
To make the caramel sauce, place caster sugar and water in a saucepan and stir on Induction level 5 until sugar dissolves. If needed use a wet pastry brush to remove sugar crystals from the side of the saucepan. Increase the Induction level to 6/7 to bring mixture to the boil. Continue to boil, uncovered and without stirring until the mixture turns golden. This will take about 10 minutes.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and with a wooden spoon, mix in the brown sugar. Carefully stir in the cream until well combined. Return to Induction level 6 and cook for 2 minutes until caramel is smooth. Remove from heat and stir through the salt. Allow to cool.
Butter the bread, cut slices into quarters and arrange in a 2 litre baking dish. Combine fig slices with 5 tablespoons of the cooled caramel, gently toss to coat the figs and then press the fig slices between the bread. Add the milk, cream, eggs, vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon to the same bowl and whisk together. Pour the mixture over the bread and leave to soak for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven on CircoTherm® 160°C with VarioSteam® level 2. Drizzle another 2 tablespoon of the caramel sauce over the bread and butter pudding. Cook the pudding for 50 minutes or until golden and puffed.
Serve with extra sliced figs, remaining caramel sauce and double cream.
Using VarioSteam, the bread and butter pudding will be light, fluffy and golden without the traditional use of a water bath.
This recipe is prepared with NEFF’s CircoTherm® with VarioSteam level 2. We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. All eggs are 55–60 g, unless specified.
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