Christmas Pudding

[Mags22]

Has anyone made their Xmas pudding in a microwave? Was it successful, any tips ?

[MargoTester]

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/last-minute-christmas-pudding
I don't make Christmas pudding as only 1 of us likes it, so I just buy a small one and m/wave it, so not sure how this would work

[barry1010]

I really wouldn't. I cook mine in the pressure cooker and it always comes out well https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/recipe/pressure-cooker-christmas-pudding

[Meaghan27]

I think a Xmas pud would dry out quickly cooked in a microwave. I make mine in the slow cooker, two small puddings on two saucers with boiling water added up to about a quarter way up the pudding bowls, grease proof paper over the whole lot and do on high for about 5 hours.
On the day I warm up the pudding in the microwave though!

[barry1010]

Yes, very nice cooked in the slow cooker too. You can reheat it in the slow cooker as well.

[Vagus]

Yep, we always cook ours in the microwave and they always come out delicious. We’ve done it like this for maybe 15 years.
The secret, if there is one, is not to overcook it and to allow standing time, so for instance, a 1lb pud we do 1min 40seconds on high, stand for 4 minutes, then 2mins 20 seconds on high again. Job done. This is for an 800w microwave. We usually make our puds in November and they keep well, without drying out, till Christmas Day.
We reheat it in the microwave too, on Christmas Day.
Funnily enough, the recipe we use is in our original prestige pressure cooker book which was a wedding present 45 years ago. Kept the book but ditched the pressure cooker years ago.

[DTCwordfan]

It was so good, we ate the microwave.

[Vagus]

The same recipe, pressure cooked, says 15 minutes steaming, then one and three quarter hours at H pressure.
Saves a fair bit of fuel by microwaving it!

[jno]

don't put the threepenny bits in till afterwards

[roadman]

dont make it in the microwave but you can warm it up in one

[bednobs]

surely it takes more than 5 minutes to cook it vagus????

[barry1010]

This microwave xmas pudding takes 25 minutes but uses shop bought mincemeat, which I wouldn't do https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/last-minute-christmas-pudding

[barry1010]

This Pru Leith microwave pudding takes 5 minutes to cook the fruit then 35 minutes to cook the whole pudding https://thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk/recipes/all/prue-leith-last-minute-christmas-pudding/

[Vagus]

It takes exactly the time I’ve said, bednobs, truly, and we’ve been making and cooking it this way for a long long time.
I’ve put the recipe we use on the other thread, perhaps that’s what makes the difference..the amounts.