Banana and Chocolate Chunk Pudding You Make in the Microwave
Every week, we spotlight a different food blogger who’s shaking up the blogosphere with tempting recipes and knockout photography. Below, Sonali Ghosh of Sugar et al. swears that a microwave is her most indispensable kitchen tool and proves it with a gooey banana and chocolate chunk pudding.
Photo: Sonali Ghosh
By Sonali Ghosh of Sugar et al.
I don’t know about you, but I cannot imagine my kitchen without a microwave. While moving houses in the recent past (four times in three years!), I made sure that the microwave was first among my electronic items to get plugged in, even before my beloved stand mixer and food processor. It’s an indispensable item that always saves me time.
I made this recipe for banana and chocolate chunk pudding twice this week. The result is golden, sweet, soft, smelling of brown sugar and butter, spongy, gooey in some places, and very slightly crusty on the sides. In other words, it’s enlightenment!
Microwave Banana and Chocolate Chunk Pudding
Serves 6
7 tablespoons (100 grams) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
2 ripe bananas
8 tablespoons (100 grams) light muscovado sugar (brown sugar will work as well)
½ cup plus 1/3 cup (100 grams) self-rising flour
2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
1 cup dark chocolate, roughly chopped into big and small chunks (or chocolate chips)
Confectioner’s sugar, for dusting
Salted caramel sauce (store-bought or homemade), for drizzling
Vanilla ice cream, for serving
Put the butter in a 1-liter baking dish and microwave on high for 30 secs to 1 minute, until melted. Mash bananas into the melted butter, then add the sugar, flour, cinnamon, eggs, and milk. Mix together well. Add the chocolate chunks and stir to distribute evenly in the batter.
Cook on high for 6 minutes until cooked through and risen. Check with a fork or a wooden skewer — it should come out clean — and microwave for a couple minutes more if not ready. Serve warm, dusted with confectioner’s sugar, drizzled with salted caramel sauce, and alongside a scoop of ice cream.
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