Banana and Tahini Bread and Butter Pudding

Name: Banana and Tahini Bread and Butter Pudding
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 250 ml/9 fl oz/1 cup double/heavy cream; 3 large eggs; about 100 g/3½ oz tahini, for spreading; 8 slices slightly stale white bread; 300 ml/10½ fl oz/1¼ cups whole milk; 50 g/2 oz butter, plus extra for greasing; demerara/turbinado sugar, to sprinkle; 1 tbsp sesame seeds; 1 tbsp tahini; 1 tsp vanilla extract; ½ tsp ground cinnamon, plus extra for dusting; 3 tbsp caster/superfine sugar; 2 tbsp runny honey; 2 large bananas, sliced on the diagonal

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bold

By Nisha Katona

Published 2024

About

Not everyone is a fan of raisins, so I wondered what else I could add to a classic bread and butter pud. I instantly thought of banana – pillowy and sweet, and eternal friend to honey and cinnamon, they work beautifully in this comfort-food classic. The earthy sesame flavour of tahini grounds the sweetness for an added twist.

Ingredients

50 g/2 oz butter, plus extra for greasing
8 slices slightly stale white bread

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Grease a 20 x 25cm/8 x 10in baking dish with butter.

To make the custard, put the milk and cream in a saucepan and heat over a gentle heat until scalding point (almost but not yet boiling).

Meanwhile, in a heatproof jug, whisk together the eggs and sugar, then add the honey, tahini, vanilla extract and cinnamon and whisk again.

Very slowly pour the hot milk and cream int