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Favourite ‘all-Bajan’ recipe:
Bread & Butter Pudding served with Guava
& Mount Gay Caramel Sauce
Meet
Esther James
Company:
With Love By Esther James
Esther’s
cooking tip:
“Enjoy the adventure
that is cooking…
you’re in control of the
outcome so embrace
the process”
Ingredients: Method: Pudding
16 slices white bread of choice
4 large eggs
3/4 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup whole milk
4 Tbsp Mount Gay Rum
1 Tbsp vanilla essence
1 cup white sugar
1 tsp powdered cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
8 oz softened, salted butter
6 oz guava jam 1. Warm heavy cream, whole milk,
vanilla essence and rum together
in small saucepan. 5. Pour egg mixture over bread and
let stand for one hour. Sprinkle
soaked bread mixture with
remaining sugar mixture.
2. Whisk eggs and temper by
gradually adding hot cream
mixture to cold eggs, whisking
continuously. Set aside. 6. Heat oven to 400°F. Bake pudding
until puffed and golden brown.
Pudding should be set in about 45
minutes to 1 hour.
3. Mix together white sugar with
cinnamon powder and ground
nutmeg. 7. Meanwhile make Guava and Mount
Gay Caramel sauce.
Sauce
1 cup white sugar
4 oz unsalted butter
4 oz heavy cream
2 tbsp Mount Gay Rum
1 tbsp Guava Jam 4. Spread one slice of bread with
generous amount of butter on one
side and guava jam on the opposite
side. In a rectangular loaf pan, fan
overlapping slices in one layer.
Sprinkle layer with sugar mixture.
Continue this process until bread
is to the top of the loaf pan.
Restaurant
Cocktail Kitchen
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Pudding & souse for sure!! Definitely is my
favourite bajan dish
Favourite dish I cook right now
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Mee ian Lea
Dam
Ginger, coconut & cilantro crusted barracuda
Pan seared Barracuda crusted with dehydrated
coconut, ginger and coriander, vanilla braised
plantain puree, ginger & scotch bonnet sweet
potato mash, pickled pineapple
THE SENSES ISSUE
8. In a heavy, medium saucepan over
medium heat stir butter and sugar
until melted and golden brown. Add
cream, guava jam and rum carefully
and whisk vigorously until smooth.
Simmer until sauce thickens
for about 5 minutes, stirring
periodically. Serve warm over bread
& butter pudding with fresh guava
slices and vanilla ice cream.
Fun fact:
Damian tried and failed to make the
Barbados culinary team 4 or 5 times before
finally making the team in 2016 and then
went to have a major winning streak:
2016 Barbados Chef of the year
2016 Caribbean Chef of the year
2016 NIFCA Chef of the year
2017 Taste of the Caribbean best seafood
2017 Taste of the Caribbean Team of the year