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Budino e saba

Budino e saba

Pudding with cooked red grape juice

Serves 6

Cooking Time Prep time 45 mins, cook 1 hour 10 mins (plus cooling)



1.25 litres   (5 cups) milk
1   lemon, zested rind only
7   cloves
2   cinnamon quills
1   vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped
165 gm   (¾ cup) caster sugar
10 gm   unsalted butter
5   eggs
2   egg yolks
To serve:   red grapes, halved
Saba
750 ml   (3 cups) mosto (see note)


1 Combine milk, zest, cloves, cinnamon and vanilla bean and seeds in a saucepan. Bring to the boil over medium heat and cook until reduced to 750ml (12-15 minutes). Remove from heat, add sugar and stir to dissolve. Cool.
2 Preheat oven to 180C. Grease six 1-cup capacity heatproof ramekins with butter. Stir milk mixture and pour through a fine seive into a mixing bowl, discarding solids. Whisk in the eggs and yolks then pour into ramekins. Cover ramekins with foil, place in a tea towel-lined baking dish, making sure they are not touching each other. Fill baking dish with boiling water three-quarters up the sides of the ramekins and bake until a knife inserted withdraws clean (40-50 minutes). Cool for 15 minutes, remove from baking dish and refrigerate until chilled (1-2 hours).
3 Meanwhile for the saba, boil the mosto in a small saucepan over high heat until reduced by half (20-30 minutes). Cool.
4 To serve, invert puddings, pour a little saba over, garnish with a few grapes and serve immediately.

Note Mosto is the Italian for fresh grape juice. Anna Maria uses Robinvale red grape juice.

Drink Suggestion Vin santo.

RECIPE Anna Maria Eoclidi PHOTOGRAPHY Ben Dearnley STYLING Emma Knowles


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