Pudding in a multivariate

Desserts are the tastiest part of the everyday and festive table, which not only children are waiting for. Almost every hostess in the reserve has several universal recipes that can please loved ones or occasional guests. For example, an English delicacy called "pudding" is prepared in a matter of minutes, especially if there is a slow cooker in the house.

Multicooker pudding: a quick recipe

Once, pudding was not considered an exquisite dessert, nor was pizza. It was prepared from the remnants of various dishes, adding eggs or fat as a connecting element. And only some time later, thanks to the British, the recipe for pudding received the kind that is known to the whole world now: flour, cereals and milk prepared in a water bath.

In order to diversify the taste of the dish, spices and dried fruits were introduced into its composition, then the turn of various sauces came. It takes time to make pudding: in some cases, the dessert needs to mature in 1-2 weeks. Nevertheless, there are recipes that, if there is a multicooker, can be realized in a few hours. This is mainly characteristic of manna and rice puddings.

As a quick breakfast in the morning, the ideal way out will be cottage cheese pudding in a slow cooker.

Composition:

1. Cottage cheese - 0.5 kg
2. Sour cream - 0.5 tbsp.
3. Eggs - 4 pcs.
4. Sugar - 1 tbsp.
5. Starch - 2 tbsp. l
6. Butter
7. Vanilla sugar, cinnamon - to taste

Cooking:

• Cottage cheese of any fat content is combined with 0.5 tbsp. cream, mixed with beaten yolks, sugar and starch. If desired, you can add vanilla sugar, as well as a little cinnamon.
• Chilled and whipped proteins are introduced into the dough last: it must be done carefully so as not to reduce their volume.
• The bottom and walls of the crock-pot should be oiled (preferably creamy), put dough into it, and cook pudding in baking mode for 1 hour.
• In low capacity multicookers (below 600 W), it may be necessary to increase the cooking time to 1.5 hours.
• After turning off the multicooker, the lid is not opened for another 1 hour, so that the pudding has cooled in it and does not lose its pomp.

The recipe for classic rice pudding is even simpler. For him in the pan heats up 3 tbsp. milk, which poured 0.5 st. sugar and 1 tbsp. round white rice. When cooking rice has a more interesting taste than the usual sugar sweetness, lemon rind and cinnamon stick are put into milk. If this spice is only in the hammer format, 1 tsp is taken. 10 minutes after cooking, the entire mixture is poured into the multicooker bowl, covered with a lid and brought to readiness for 30 minutes. on the "baking" mode. And if you do not like milk, you can replace it with water in the same volume.

Semolina pudding for breakfast

Semolina pudding - a kind of greeting from childhood, along with cottage cheese casserole. It is done as quickly as rice or cottage cheese, but it is already divided into 2 stages: first its foundation is prepared, and then it is connected with the other components and brought to readiness.

Composition:

1. Semolina - 6 tbsp. l
2. Milk - 3 tbsp.
3. Sugar, vanilla sugar - to taste
4. Eggs - 2 pcs.

Cooking:

• Semolina is poured into milk, poured into a multicooker bowl, and in the "cooking" mode, cooks for 15-20 minutes. (depends on the power of the device). You can add 1 tsp at this stage. vanilla sugar and 2 tsp. plain sugar. The resulting porridge should be thick, not spreading on the spoon.
• After that, eggs are introduced into it, the foundation for the pudding is whipped, laid out in a greased multicooker bowl and in the baking mode lasts 40-50 minutes.
• It is necessary to cool the dish for 3 hours without opening the multicooker lid.
• Such a simple pudding without filler may disappoint a sweet tooth, so you should think about a delicious addition to it. Of course, you can always just pour condensed milk or jam, but it is better to prepare a special sauce or cream. For example, beating a banana with a mixer, 1 tbsp. heavy cream, a pinch of vanilla and 1 tbsp. powdered sugar. Or mixed 2 tbsp. sugar, the same amount of gelatin, 0.5 tbsp. hot water and currants passed through the juicer in a volume of 250 g. As soon as the mixture cools and thickens, the pudding is covered with it and time is allowed to fully set.

Apple pudding dessert

There are so many varieties of apple pudding that you can lose the balance, but the most advantageous is the version lacking additional thickeners. After all, an apple is a source of pectin that performs the same functions. And there are much more benefits in such a dish than in those where starch, semolina and other ingredients are present. Therefore, the apple pudding option presented below is a great choice for those who are looking after their figure.

Composition:

1. Apples - 3-4 pcs.
2. Icing sugar to taste
3. Egg whites - 3 pcs.
4. Lemon juice
5. Butter
6. Ground crackers

Cooking:

• Apples need to be peeled and baked in the microwave. You can do this in a multi-cooker by setting the "multi-cook" / "baking" mode on it, but this will take a little longer.
• Their flesh must soften so much that it can easily be turned into a smooth mash with a blender or mixer. If you like sweet desserts, add 1-2 tbsp to apple sauce. powdered sugar.
• 3 egg whites are cooled and whipped quickly from 1 tbsp. lemon juice to obtain a strong foam, which is very carefully introduced into applesauce.
• If you want to play with the taste of pudding, you can put a pinch of cinnamon and ginger in the total mass, and a handful of dried fruit soaked in rum, but this option can no longer be considered low-calorie.
• The bottom of the multicooker bowl is required to be oiled and sprinkled with ground breadcrumbs, then pour the mixture into it. It is baked in baking mode for 40 minutes, cools another 1-1.5 hours under the lid.
• Serve recommended with fresh berry sauce.

Christmas English pudding in a slow cooker

This dish can be not only a sweet dessert. In its historic homeland on Christmas Eve, it serves as a full-fledged hearty dish, because it is prepared with the addition of beef fat. The flavor combination with citrus and dried fruit may seem unusual to many, but even this non-standard recipe has many admirers. Classic Christmas pudding requires 3 weeks to prepare, as it needs time to mature. A light version of the recipe in the presence of a multicooker allows you to cope in a week. It does not take into account the preparation of certain components, which does not imply a permanent monitoring of their condition.

Composition:

1. Raisin without seeds - 250 g
2. Kishmish - 250 g
3. Dried cherry (or brown bread) - 80 g
4. Rum - 1 tbsp.
5. Almond - 75 g
6. Candied orange peels to taste
7. Flour - 65 g
8. Crackers - 250 g
9. Salt, spices - to taste
10. Milk - 130 ml
11. Eggs - 4 pcs.
12. 1 lemon juice
13. Beef suet (butter) - 250 g

Cooking:

• For the 3rd day before starting to work with pudding, you should use small, light raisins without stones, raisins and brown bread (you can substitute dried cherries), pour rum (0.5 tbsp), and for a specified period dry fruits should be infused in a cool place.
• According to the recipe, candied orange peels will be present in the pudding. If they are not there, you can do it differently: peel the zest from 2 oranges, put it in rum for dried fruits, and add the juice from the 1st orange there.
• On the last day (3rd in a row) nuts are poured into soaked dried fruit: 75 g of almonds.
• On the 4th day, dried fruits and nuts are removed, dried and finely chopped. Rind is not needed. These ingredients are carefully combined with sifted flour, bread crumbs, a pinch of salt and a set of spices. Traditionally, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger, as well as cardamom, are present in Christmas pudding. But they can be varied to taste.
• Warm milk is poured into the resulting mixture, whipped eggs are introduced, as well as another 0.5 tablespoons. rum and lemon juice.
• The last to join the dough is beef suet, which can be replaced with unsalted butter.
• A tight clod, which the dough turns into after kneading, is placed in a plastic container, always covered with a lid.
• The multicooker bowl is filled with water up to the 1.5 liter mark, a container is placed in it.
• Depending on the manufacturer, the mode to be worked with may be called “boiling” or “cooking”, the pressure is set low (usually it is “-3”), preparing under such conditions pudding will be 4-5 hours.
• If you set the mode "a couple", then the pressure rises to "2", and the cooking time will increase to 5-6 hours.
• After that, the container must be removed from the multicooker, the cover removed and removed, in its place put food wrap, wrap the container itself with a thick towel, and it is better to wrap in a warmer cloth, and give it 7-9 days to mature. The longer it will stand, the less moisture will remain in it.

All volumes of ingredients above are given for the multicooker, whose volume of the bowl is 4.5-5 liters, therefore, the specific model often has to count the number of products individually. Try to cook pudding with the simplest and fastest recipes, experiment, create, and create new tasty masterpieces!