Christmas pudding (suitable for diabetics) recipe

If you've ever had to battle your way through a dry, stodgy Christmas pudding this could be the present you've been waiting for. This has no sugar, so it's suitable for diabetics and is kept moist by carrots and apples with cinnamon and mixed spice to warm your heart.

Serves 10 (portion size for diabetics)

Ready in 5½ hours

• 125g plain flour
• 125g fresh white breadcrumbs
• 125g shredded vegetable suet
• 125g currants
• 150g raisins
• 1 tbsp low-calorie sweetener
• 2 tsp each ground cinnamon and mixed spice
• 1½ tsp baking powder
• 4 large eggs, beaten
• Finely grated zest of 1 large lemon
• Finely grated zest of 1 large orange
• 2 carrots, trimmed and finely grated
• 2 dessert apples, peeled, cored and cut into small chunks
• 150ml milk
• Icing sugar, for dusting

How to make christmas pudding (diabetic)

1. Lightly butter a 1.4-litre pudding basin and line the base with a circle of baking paper.

2. Mix together the dry ingredients, then stir in the other ingredients until well combined. Spoon the mixture into the basin and cover with a circle of buttered baking paper. Fold a pleat into a piece of foil and arrange over the pudding. Secure with string.

3. Carefully place the pudding in a pan of boiling water, making sure the water comes a third of the way up the side of the basin. Cover, reduce the heat to a simmer and steam gently for 5 hours.

4. Turn out the pudding and serve dusted with icing sugar.

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