Potato & spiced ginger syrup pudding

Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Serves 2-4

What you’ll need:

For the sponge:

  • 1 large potato peeled and diced
  • 110g self-raising flour
  • 110g caster sugar
  • 110g unsalted butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 70g root ginger, peeled and finely chopped
  • 30g unsalted butter for greasing the pudding basin

For the ginger syrup:

  • 80g caster sugar
  • 100ml water
  • 2 tsp root ginger peeled and finely chopped
  • 1/2 tsp of all spice

What to do:

  1. Steam the potatoes until soft.
  2. Grease 4 small or 1 large pudding basin with butter.
  3. To make the sponge put the potato, flour, sugar, butter, eggs and 70g of ginger into a food processor. Blitz together until smooth.
  4. To make the ginger syrup, gently heat the sugar and water in a heavy-based saucepan over a low heat. Cook until the sugar has dissolved and has turned a light caramel colour.
  5. Add the all spice and the 2 tsp of chopped ginger. Shake pan until the ginger is coated in caramel.
  6. Distribute the syrup evenly between pudding basins and half fill with potato mixture. Cover with cling film.
  7. Place in the microwave and cook on high for 5 minutes.
  8. Turn out the sponge pudding onto plate. Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream
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