Category Archives: Christmas Leftovers

Christmas Pudding Rice Pudding

The Twelve Recipes of Christmas

Christmas Pudding Rice Pudding

Dawn: (Singing away) On the Twelfth day of Christmas my true Love Food gave to me….

Andrew: Something that will cook slowly whilst we take down the decorations.

Dawn: Will it take that long to untangle the lights?

Andrew: Several hours after the cat has been at them.

Dawn: What do we have left in the Christmas larder?

Andrew: A small Christmas pudding, some citrus fruit that has seen better days and the remnants of some pudding rice.

Dawn: Do you still have your inventing hat on?

Andrew: I’ll fetch it and get to work. If it still fits…my hair needs cutting!

Two hours later: Andrew emerges triumphant from the kitchen.

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Ingredients

1 Small Christmas pudding (or leftover portions)

100g pudding rice

1 pint/500ml semi-skimmed milk

50g caster sugar

Grated rind of one lemon and one orange

1tsp vanilla essence

Method

  • Preheat the oven to 150⁰C, gas mark 2.
  • Rinse the rice in a sieve under cold water to remove the starch. Leave to drain.
  • Butter an ovenproof dish.
  • Crumble the Christmas Pudding
  • Add the rice, grated zest, sugar, vanilla essence and crumbled pudding to the dish and mix.
  • Pour in the milk and stir so the ingredients are spread evenly.
  • Place into the oven and bake for one and a half to two hours, until the rice pudding has firmed but has a wobble in the middle.
  • Allow to cool for 10 to 15 minutes before serving.

Dawn: Gorgeous smell and what an amazing colour!

Andrew: An ingenious way to use remaining Christmas ingredients that would simply gather dust in the cupboard.

Dawn: Rice Pudding should give you enough energy to get on with removing the decorations now!

Andrew: Wasn’t that your job?

Dawn: You’re learning to multitask remember!

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Dreamy Leftovers Christmas Pudding Custard-style Ice Cream

The Eleventh Day of The Twelve Days of Christmas Recipes brings a tantalizingly delicious creation to whet tastebuds

Leftover Christmas Pudding and Dreamy Custard-style Ice Cream

Dawn: This combines the coolness of luscious ice cream with the textures of Christmas pud and in contrast, the crispness of sharp dark chocolate (sang merrily to accompany this rich and yummy pudding!)

Andrew: WOW! I like the sound of this!

Dawn: I know…I have a divine singing voice, I’m told. And the ice cream is quite a centre stage act, too. You’ll be even more impressed when you sample it, Andrew.

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Ingredients

Serves 4-6 persons

150g Leftover Christmas pudding

For the dreamy custard:

6 large egg yolks

100g castor sugar

2tsps of cornflour

550ml of whipping or double cream

2 vanilla pod or 2tsps of vanilla essence

Topping:

150g Dark 70% cocoa chocolate

A sprinkling of icing sugar to dust

Method

  • Put the egg yolks, cornflour and castor sugar in a bowl and mix together until they are combined to become a bright, yellow jewel. Set aside while you make the custard.
  • Put the whipping or double cream in a saucepan adding either the vanilla pods which are first cut in length and then the seeds scraped out along the outer pods lengths; put the pods into the cream, too or add the 2tsps of vanilla essence.
  • Gently heat the cream and vanilla mixture on a hob until hot then add to the egg mixture which you have previously prepared in a mixing bowl, stirring as you do to combine the ingredients.
  • Now pour the custard ingredients back into the saucepan that you’ve used for heating up the cream and return to the hob. Break up the Christmas pudding into very small chunks and add to the saucepan.
  • Heat gently, stirring constantly. Make sure the Christmas pudding is blending well into the custard mixture.
  • The custard will begin to thicken and you’ll feel the spoon start to ‘drag’ on the saucepan’s bottom as it does so.
  • Once thick enough that it’s the consistency of whipped cream, pour into a container and set aside to cool.

Dawn: The Christmas pudding bowl comes in very useful here!

Andrew: No salt with this ice cream, Dawn?

Dawn: That’s right, Andre: no salt. The alcohol in the pudding makes the ice cream soft enough to scoop.

  • When it’s cool, put in the freezer to set.
  • Every two hours, remove from the freezer and stir the ice cream. Do this 3 or 4 times. Then allow to fully set.
  • When ready to serve, remove the ice cream from the freezer for approximately 20 minutes beforehand.
  • During this waiting time, put a pudding basin over a small saucepan of boiling water, remembering to not let the bottom touch the water. Break the chocolate into small chunks and put into the suspended pudding basin. On a medium heat, allow the saucepan of water to gently melt the chocolate.
  • Once the chocolate is melted, pour over the pudding-like ice cream and dust with a little icing sugar.

Andrew: Yes, we stir the ice cream to prevent ice crystals forming and so the freeze is even.

Dawn: And we’ve finished this creation off with a pouring of melted dark chocolate over it.

Andrew: Looks just like a Christmas pudding!

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Leftover Turkey Caesar Salad

And the Twelve Recipes of Christmas continues with…

Dawn: (singing merrily) On the seventh day of Christmas, my true Love Food gave to me…

Andrew: What, pray tell?

Dawn: On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me seven swans a-swimming…

Andrew: Dawn…

Dawn: Ops! Got carried away for a minute then! I love singing! As you know!

Why, a wee recipe called: Leftover Turkey Caesar Salad!

Andrew: Sounds a great way of using up any leftover turkey.

Dawn: Indeedy! And without further a-do…the recipe!

IMG_3405Ingredients

Serves 2

2 Kos lettuces (seperated and washed)

2 slices of wholemeal bread, crusts cut off and cut into 1cm squares

2 Bacon rashers (smoked or unsmoked)

50-75g Turkey torn into strips

Shavings of Parmesan cheese (or any extra mature cheese)

For the Dressing

50ml fresh cream (single or double) or very low fat natural yoghurt

1 clove of garlic, peeled and chopped

2 tbsps olive oil

2tsps Worcester sauce

Juice of 1/2 a lemon

2 anchovy fillets, in olive oil

Salt and pepper to season

Method

  • Add a splash of olive oil to a frying pan and place on a medium heat. Allow the oil to heat up and when hot, toss in the bread squares. Keep stirring them around only they are golden brown in colour all over. Once golden brown, set aside to cool.
  • Next the bacon: either dry fry the rashers in the frying pan making sure you keep an eye on them so they don’t stick or grill them until they are cooked. Once cooked, set aside to cool and when cool, break into bite-size pieces.
  • Put the washed lettuce leaves in a bowl.
  • Next, prepare the dressing by putting all the dressing ingredients in a food processor and give them a quick blitz. Season.

Dawn: If you don’t have a food processor, put all the ingredients in a small bowl and whisk together by hand.

  • Pour the dressing over the lettuce leaves and toss the bowl so that all the leaves are covered.
  • Now add the turkey and mix with the lettuce.
  • Add the bacon and the bread squares, and the cheese shavings. Season to taste and serve.

Andrew: A simple and effective way of using leftover turkey.

Dawn: Yes, Andrew, and the dressing makes for a really authentic Caesar salad taste.

Andrew: It’s the anchovy fillets that do.And not a raw egg in sight!

Dawn: Very authentic tasting and a great way of kicking off a healthier eating programme if you are looking at watching the scales on 1 January.

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