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Bacon and Onion Pudding
What you need to make bacon and onion pudding
- Pastry
- 200 g self-raising flour
- 90 g veg oil
- pinch salt
- Filling
- 175 g bacon pieces
- 300 g onions chopped into dice
- To Serve
- 320 g peas
- 1 kg potatoes
How to make the pudding
Mix the flour, oil and salt with enough cold water to bring the mix together into a wet dough which comes away cleanly from the sides of your mixing bowl. The dough should be easily manipulated and stretchy, but not stick to your fingers.
Fry the bacon and onions together.
Line your pudding basin with approx 1 cm thick layer of pastry (keeping 1/3rd for a lid, then fill with the bacon and onion mix, and then use the remaining third as a lid.
This will only fill your basin to approximately 3/4 full, but don’t worry, it will grow when you steam it.
Place a pleated piece of foil over the top and tie it around the rim and steam for approx 2-3 hrs in the slow cooker, or on your hob in a bain marie until the pastry is bulging above the top of your pudding basin
What changes can I make
If you put the ingredients into a pie dish instead of a basin, this can be baked in the oven as a pie instead of steaming
If you are not following the monthly meal plan number one, you have options
- swap the oil in the pastry to beef suet for a traditional flavour
- serve with buttery cabbage, mashed swede or any other vegetables
- swap some or all of the bacon to something like a chorizo
- add some finely chopped rosemary, a few sage leaves or some marjoram to the pastry or filling
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Ingredients
Pastry
- 200 g self-raising flour
- 90 g veg oil
- pinch salt
Filling
- 175 g bacon pieces
- 300 g onions chopped into dice
To Serve
- 320 g peas
- 1 kg potatoes
Instructions
- Mix the flour, oil and salt with enough cold water to bring the mix together into a wet dough which comes away cleanly from the sides of your mixing bowl. The dough should be easily manipulated and stretchy, but not stick to your fingers.200 g self-raising flour, 90 g veg oil, pinch salt
- Fry the bacon and onions together.175 g bacon pieces, 300 g onions
- Line your pudding basin with approx 1 cm thick layer of pastry (keeping 1/3rd for a lid, then fill with the bacon and onion mix, and then use the remaining third as a lid.
- This will only fill your basin to approximately 3/4 full, but don’t worry, it will grow when you steam it.
- Place a pleated piece of foil over the top and tie it around the rim and steam for approx 2-3 hrs in the slow cooker, or on your hob in a bain marie until the pastry is bulging above the top of your pudding basin.
- Click here to start a 2 hour timer
To Serve
- Serve with peas and potatoes prepared however you like them320 g peas, 1 kg potatoes
Notes
- swap the oil in the pastry to beef suet for a traditional flavour
- serve with buttery cabbage, mashed swede or any other vegetables
- swap some or all of the bacon to something like a chorizo
- add some finely chopped rosemary, a few sage leaves or some marjoram to the pastry or filling
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