Plum in my pudding!

Plum: a sweet and sour fruit and its smell will always remind me of my childhood.

The only dessert that I enjoy making is pudding, preferably chocolate pudding .So, yesterday I decided to roll up my sleeves, shake off my laziness and make a small portion of pudding with the leftover milk. Co-incidentally, some ripe plums also happened to be sitting in the fruit tray of my fridge asking to be eaten. So, I complied with their request; but instead of eating them like an orangutan I decided to eat them in Famous Five style, i.e. in a pudding.

I have never in my life eaten, let alone made plum pudding. It was just one of those times when I rely on my instincts (the internet wasn't working yesterday,so I had to make do with instinct) yesterday and start cooking.  So, if you ever want to try this ( because it turned out to be pretty decent),here’s a recipe to guide you to some extent:

                                               

                                                                     Ingredients

For the pudding:

1.      500 ml full cream milk;

2.      3 eggs;

3.      2 ripe plums;

4.      1 table spoon drinking chocolate power;

5.      sugar ( depends on how sweet your tooth is);and

6.      cardamom powder

For the plum syrup drizzle:

1.      One deseeded and finely chopped plum (retain the peel);

2.      3 table-spoons sugar;

3.      200ml water; and

4.       a tiny wedge of cinnamon

                                                        Process

1.      Boil milk

2.      Beat eggs, mix the sugar and chocolate powder, and start beating again

3.      Deseed the plum and take off the peel. If you have a hand blender then use it to make a purée, if you are unlucky like me, then use your hands and a spoon. The result is the same. Now mix this with the eggs mixture,

4.      Pour this mix in container, sprinkle cardamom on top of it and put it inside the pressure cooker. After 10 whistles, switch off the gas and let the pudding cool. You should ideally refrigerate it for 2 hours.

5.      For the plum syrup, combine water and sugar, bring them to boil. Now put the chopped plums into the syrup and wait for the color to change to deeper pink. Oops! Don’t forget to add the cinnamon.

6.      Spoon out the remains of the plum, and let the syrup alone!

Serving: Invert the pudding on a dish. Now, take your luscious plum syrup and smell it, isn’t it wonderful? Now, slowly drizzle your pudding with this syrup, put on some nice romantic music and indulge into its zesty goodness.

VIDEO ALERT!!  I was browsing through plum pudding recipes today,interestingly most of them don't use raw plums,like I did. But found this on youtube which I have to try. 

PS: This is not one of those snooty blogs,where everything is ladylike,hence the recipe has to bear that wild trademark. So,this recipe is not plum pudding,it's rather plum in pudding.