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Plum sponge pudding

Time:

15 minutes to prepare & 30 minutes cooking

Serves in this recipe:

6 Servings

Serves of fruit and vegetables: 4

Ingredients

Olive or canola oil spray
2 cups stewed, poached or canned plums, well drained
3 eggs
½ cup caster sugar
¾ cup self-raising flour, sifted
1 tablespoon low-fat milk, hot

Cooking Instructions

Preheat oven to 180 °C. Lightly spray baking pan (20cm x 20cm) with oil. Place fruit in pan. Whisk eggs and sugar in an electric mixer for 4–5 minutes until very thick and creamy. With a spatula fold in flour and hot milk as lightly as possible. Pour over fruit to cover and bake for 25–30 minutes until golden brown and firm to touch. Serves 6.

Serves 6

Hint

Make sure there is no liquid or juice with the fruit or the sponge topping will not cook properly.

Variation

Try canned apricots, peaches, or pie apples.
When in season, try the following combinations:
mulberry and apple
rhubarb and raspberries
pear and rhubarb

Nutritional Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION
Serves in this recipe: 6
Serve size: 148 g
   Quantity per serving  Quantity per 100g
 Energy     932.26 kJ    630.19 kJ
 Protein

      5.66 g

      3.83 g
 Fat

     -saturated
      3.42 g

      1.01 g
      2.31 g 

      0.68 g
 Carbohydrate

     -sugars
     42.01 g 

     29.03 g
    28.40 g 

    16.63 g
 Fibre        1.59 g       1.07 g
 Sodium     154.64 mg     104.54 mg

Queensland Health acknowledges the development of the Healthy Food Fast cookbook by the Department of Health Western Australia.

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Last updated: 25 February, 2011

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