Halwai March 31, 2024

Ingredients:

• 25 g – Butter (5g for greasing and 20g for spreading)
• 2 slices – brown bread, a day old (slightly stale)
• 1 Egg
• 125 ml – whole Milk
• 20 g – Demerara Sugar (plus another teaspoon to sprinkle)
• 1 pinch – Cinnamon
• 1 ripe Banana (small)
• 1 heaped tbsp – sultanas, Raisins or mixed dried fruit

Method:

  1. Weigh and measure all the ingredients.
  2. There should be enough for four servings using the quantities shown.
  3. Grease the ovenproof dish with some butter using your fingers.
  4. Then butter one side of each slice of bread before cutting both slices into four triangles.
  5. Break an egg into the mug and whisk it using a fork.
  6. Add the milk, two dessert spoons of sugar, a pinch of cinnamon and whisk it again.
  7. Peel the banana and carefully cut it into slices with a butter knife.
  8. Put half of the bread (four pieces) into the ovenproof dish, add the bananas (but save one piece until later) and sultanas.
  9. Then add the remaining bread on top, hiding the banana and fruit.
  10. Pour over the egg mixture, sprinkle the extra sugar on top and put the dish onto a baking tray.
  11. Place in a pre-heated oven at 160 C Fan/180 C/Gas 4 for 20-25 mins, or until completely cooked through.
  12. When the spiced banana pudding has cooled down a bit, you can eat it.

Recipe courtesy of Sunandini reddy