Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding

Name: Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Asia
Ingredients: 1½ recipe quantities crème anglaise, made using 8 egg yolks; 1 banana; 55 g (2 oz) shelled macadamia nuts, roasted and coarsely chopped fruit coulis of choice, to serve; 100 g (3½ oz) good-quality dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids), broken into pieces; 55 g (2 oz) caster sugar; demerara sugar; 3 bananas, peeled and sliced; 300 g (10½ oz) brioche, cut across into 1 cm (½ in) slices; 55 g (2 oz) butter; 5 tbsp whole milk; chocolate shavings, to decorate

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Gate Vegetarian Cookbook

By Adrian Daniel and Michael Daniel

Published 2004

About

This is a real comfort pud, as it has all the classic nice things in it. Use any chocolate crème anglaise left over to decorate the pudding.

Ingredients

300 g (10½ oz) brioche, cut across into 1 cm (½ in) slices
1½ recipe quantities crème a

Asia
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

For the best results, soak the brioche slices in the two-thirds of the crème anglaise, covered in the refrigerator, overnight.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4. In a pan, heat the chocolate in the milk with the sugar and butter, whisking