COPPERBreadfruit pudding recipe
Cooked breadfruit pounded into thick fresh coconut cream and set in banana leaves, with no eggs and no oven custard about it.
Ingredients
- 1 ripe breadfruit
- 400 ml coconut cream
- 100 g sugar
- 4 banana leaves
- 1 pinch salt
How to make Breadfruit pudding
- Choose a breadfruit that yields slightly under the thumb, still firm but past green. Peel it, quarter it and cut out the core.
- Boil the pieces in unsalted water for 20 minutes, or roast them whole over embers, which is the island way and gives a smoky edge.
- Press 400 ml of thick cream from grated fresh coconut flesh, squeezing the first pressing only. Canned coconut milk is thinner and will leave the pudding slack.
- Pound the hot breadfruit with a pestle, adding the coconut cream a little at a time, 100 g of sugar and a pinch of salt, until it is smooth and heavy.
- Soften 4 banana leaves over a flame, line a dish with them and press the mixture in about 4 cm deep.
- Fold the leaves over and bake 30 minutes at 180 C. Traditionally this step is an um, a stone-lined earth oven, which a domestic oven only approximates.
- Let it cool in the leaves until it firms enough to cut, then serve in squares at room temperature.
What is Breadfruit pudding?
Breadfruit pudding is a traditional dish from Marshall Islands, baked in the oven, and takes about 2 hours and 5 minutes from start to finish. It is built around coconut cream. The recipe below uses 5 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Breadfruit pudding take?
At 125 minutes it is slower than 54% of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas. Copper's atlas has 22 dishes built on coconut cream. The method runs to 7 steps, the longest being 30 minutes.
Any tips for making Breadfruit pudding?
Use thick cream from the first pressing of fresh coconut; canned coconut milk is thinner and leaves the pudding slack.
How Breadfruit pudding compares
Ripe breadfruit appears in no other dish in the atlas.
Cooked with the same thing elsewhere
Other traditional dishes built on breadfruit, from other countries.
- Oil down 🇬🇩 Grenada
- Calulu 🇸🇹 Sao Tome and Principe
- Fried jackfish 🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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