Pudding is a traditional British dish. This dessert is steamed, and it consists of the simplest products: eggs, granulated sugar, flour and milk with spices and dried fruits. In addition to the classic pudding recipe, there are many other varieties of it, including savory ones. It can be meat, fish, mushroom, rice, cheese, as well as liver or seafood. Today we will figure out how to cook carrot pudding.
Simple recipe
This is a gentle sweet dessert, the preparation of which does not require experience, as well as the oven. You can consider this pudding recipe a classic.
What you need to take:
- six pieces of carrots;
- half a glass of granulated sugar;
- half a packet of butter;
- half a glass of whole milk;
- half a teaspoon of cinnamon.
Actions:
- Prepare carrots: rinse it under the tap, peel, then grate.
- Melt the butter in a stewpan and put the carrots there.
- Put the container on the stove and simmer when stirring over low heat until the carrots soften (about 8 minutes).
- Pour sugar into the stewpan, cook for another 4 minutes, not forgetting to stir. After the sugar has dissolved, the carrots must be caramelized.
- Pour milk into a container, add cinnamon and continue cooking until the liquid evaporates, remembering to stir.
- Remove the pan from the stove when the mixture becomes thick and lags well behind the walls.
- Put the resulting mass into a deep, narrow container, then cover it with a flat plate and knock it over so that the pudding takes the correct shape.
Serve carrot pudding with sour cream or heavy cream.
With apples
Ingredients:
- 100 grams of carrots;
- two medium apples;
- one egg;
- 10 g butter;
- two tablespoons of sugar and the same amount of semolina;
- 50 ml of milk.
Stages of cooking:
- Cut the washed and peeled carrots into squares, pour into a saucepan, pour a little water and let it in (about 15 minutes).
- Peel the apples, grate and put in a pan with carrots. Simmer on low heat for 10 minutes.
- Wipe the mixture of carrots and apples through a sieve, add granulated sugar, pour milk, mix, put on the stove, wait for the boil.
- Pour semolina with constant stirring. Cook over low heat for 10 minutes, then remove and cool.
- Separate the protein from the yolk. Send it to the mass and mix. Beat the cooled protein until a foam is obtained and introduce into the general mixture, stirring constantly to make it fluffy.
- Lubricate the mold with butter, put the mass in it and cook for a couple.
- Cool the prepared carrot pudding and serve. It can be decorated with any dried fruit or nuts.
With cottage cheese in the microwave
A simple recipe for a delicious carrot-curd dessert. This carrot pudding is suitable for children from 1 year.
What you need to take:
- 0.5 kg of carrots;
- 0.3 kg of cottage cheese;
- half a glass of sugar;
- two eggs;
- four spoons of breadcrumbs.
Actions:
- Grind cottage cheese and sugar in a blender until smooth.
- Put the breadcrumbs and grind again.
- Separate the yolks from the proteins. Send them to the curd mass and mix well.
- Beat cold squirrels until lush foam.
- Grate the carrots, put in the curd and mix with a blender.
- Put the proteins in the general mixture and mix by hand.
- Lubricate the mold, put the mass into it, put in the microwave for 7 minutes.
Cool the finished dessert and cut into pieces.
White bread
And now about how to cook carrot pudding from white bread. To prepare it, you will need grated carrots and a wheat stick, as well as a pack of cottage cheese, a glass of yogurt, vanillin and sugar to taste, a pinch of salt.
Grated carrots need to be squeezed out a little so that it is not too wet. It is best to buy cottage cheese of medium fat content - 5-9%.
Pieces of loaf to send in a blender, chop until crumbs, followed by grated carrots, beat. Then put cottage cheese, sugar, yogurt, salt and vanillin and mix everything again. Put the mass in the refrigerator for the night.
In the morning, you can start cooking carrot pudding. Turn on the oven and preheat to 180 ° C. Put the mass in the molds, grease with sour cream on top and put in a saucer filled with water for three quarters, cook in the oven for half an hour.
Put a little butter on the baked small puddings and hold in the oven off for several minutes. Serve sprinkled with icing sugar or garnished with candied fruits and berries.
In a slow cooker
It’s very easy to cook carrot pudding in a slow cooker.
You need to take the following products:
- 350 g of grated carrots;
- two tablespoons of flour;
- vanillin;
- one and a half tablespoons of sugar;
- two eggs;
- a tablespoon of oil;
- salt.
Pudding preparation steps:
- Beat eggs with vanilla and sugar.
- Add the grated carrots, pour the flour, salt and mix.
- Lubricate the bowl, lay out the mass, set the “Baking” program for 70 minutes.
Ready to serve pudding with sour cream.
With dried apricots in molds
In addition to dried apricots, you can take other dried fruits, as well as nuts. It will take two carrots, half a pack of butter, three eggs, a pinch of vanillin, sugar to taste and breadcrumbs.
Cooking pudding with dried apricots:
- Wash and peeled carrots cut into pieces and put cook in a pan.
- Rinse dried apricots, scald with boiling water, finely chop.
- Separate the whites from the yolks. The second immediately put in the refrigerator.
- Heat the oven to 180 ° C.
- Melt the butter, let it cool.
- Beat the yolks with butter, sugar and vanilla.
- Bring the boiled carrots to a puree condition in a blender.
- Put the yolks in the mixture, whipped with sugar, dried apricots, breadcrumbs and mix.
- Beat the whites into the foam with a mixer and carefully combine with the carrot mass.
- Place paper capsules in the form, the dough in them.
- Bake in the oven for half an hour.
Grease the finished dessert with sour cream or sprinkle with powdered sugar. You can decorate with berries, nuts or candied fruits.