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Christmas Cooking with top UK chef Mark Greenaway
This Christmas pudding parfait is one of my favourite recipes for this time of year. Not only is it a great way to enjoy Christmas pudding outwith Christmas day but also a great way to use up any leftover Christmas pudding.
Serves 6
Burnt orange jelly
Ingredients
140g caster sugar
500ml fresh orange juice
Zest of 1 lime
Zest of 1 lemon
Zest of 1 orange
2 vanilla pods, halved and seeds scraped out
7 leaves of gelatine, soaked in cold water
Method
• Place the sugar in to a heavy based pan and set over a high heat, stir with a wooden spoon until the sugar is equally melted to a golden caramel, take off the heat and add the zest and vanilla seeds
• Very slowly add the orange juice, stirring frequently until all the of liquid had been incorporated, return to the heat and bring up to the boil
• Add in the soaked gelatine, stir until dissolved, pour the liquid through a fine sieve and leave to cool
• Pour into a tray and set in the fridge
• Once set, cut out circles from the jelly using a small teacup or cookie cutter and set back in the fridge
Christmas Pudding Parfait
Ingredients
7 egg yolks
325g caster sugar
1 ½ tbsp. liquid glucose
3 egg whites
750ml double cream
3 leaves gelatine, softened in cold water
½ a good quality Christmas pudding, crumbled
Method
• Whisk the egg yolks until pale and light
• Boil 210g of the caster sugar with the liquid glucose until the soft ball stage is achieved (118C) and pour over the egg yolks
• Stir in the softened gelatine
• Whisk this mixture until it is cold
• Whisk the egg whites and the rest of caster sugar to make a meringue
• Whip the double cream to soft peaks
• Fold all of the ingredients together
• Pour into 4cm hemispherical moulds and freeze till firm
• When the parfait is frozen, turn out the moulds and stick the hemispheres together to make spheres
• Place back into the freezer until ready to serve
• Serve each sphere sitting on top of a round of jelly
Mark Greenaway is the Chef Patron of Restaurant Mark Greenaway on North Castle Street, Edinburgh.
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