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Goolab Jamoon Pudding (recipe) – Leftover Tuesdays #1

23 January 2007 713 views 31 Comments

Goolab Jamoon Pudding

When I first heard about Leftover Tuesdays I immediately thought what a great idea! :) If there’s one thing that I’ve learnt over the past few months (thanks to Rachael Ray) is that leftovers don’t have to be reheated facsimiles of their former selves. This may have been common sense to many people but it was like a choir of angels from the heavens for me. Ever since then I rejoice at leftovers and my creativity has really grown in leaps and bounds. This time around I had SO many ideas for Leftover Tuesday that I had to narrow them down. Can you imagine? :D

In the end I decided to combine the best of two worlds. You see, I had quite a few leftover Goolab Jamoon in the freezer from my last batch, and I also had my spanking new Reviewer’s Copy of The Good Home Cookbook: More Than 1000 Classic American Recipes that had finally reached me ages after all the Americans had already raved over it :D I thought why not make a breadpudding from it but use my Goolab Jamoon instead of bread. Voila! Goolab Jamoon Pudding :D GooJaPu? :D :lol:

Although I used Goolab Jamoon in this recipe I imagine that it would also work quite well with leftover glazed doughnuts, or even just plain buttered bread :D The final result was very light and custardy, and delicate in sweetness. The cardamom in the Goolab Jamoons also added a nice contrast to the milkiness :) It only took a few hours for the whole thing to be consumed :lol:


Goolab Jamoon Pudding
(adapted from a recipe in The Good Home Cookbook: More Than 1000 Classic American Recipes)

INGREDIENTS:

3 large eggs
3 1/2 cups milk
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups cubed Goolab Jamoon/glazed doughnuts/plain bread (I didn’t have enough goolab jamoon so I used bits of stale bread too :D )
3/4 cup raisins
cinnamon

METHOD:

1. Preheat the oven to 325F.
2. Grease a 2-quart baking dish
3. In a medium bowl, beat the eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla extract, and salt until well blended.
4. Mix in the cubes and raisins.
5. Pour into the prepared baking dish and sprinkle the top with cinnamon

6. Bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until the pudding is puffed up and brown and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean

Goolab Jamoon Pudding

Serves 6

31 Comments »

  • Lilandra said:

    I think your “bread pudding” looks a tad different from mine. Or should I say mom’s.

    Hmm. I wonder if it has anything to do with mom’s predilection for grinding everything…so we’d process the gulab jamoon. Or am I imagining things?

    Also, if you’re making regular bread pudding and you like the cardamon you could just put in cardamon you know…don’t need gulab jamoon with it! :-p

    Also.
    Hmm I say cardamon you say cardamom…I checked online dictionaries to see if I was crazy (quite possible) but it seems both are acceptable.
    *relief*

    # 23 January 2007 at 3:11 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    we always leave our bread pudding in cubes :) and sure i could add cardamom (cardamon :P ) to plain bread pudding but that would defeat the purpose of using up my LEFTOVERS this time around wouldn’t it :lol:

    # 23 January 2007 at 3:25 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    no no
    i didn’t mean add cardamon to your bread for *now*
    i mean for next time you make bread pudding and you don’t have the gulab jamoon and you only have plain ordinary bread

    i must ask mom if we use cubes
    hmmmmm

    # 23 January 2007 at 4:09 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    lolziez :D i think i will add it the next time around :D it’s a fun flavour :D yes ask your mom :D hehehe :D this was a nice variation though :D

    # 23 January 2007 at 4:19 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    oh i’m sure it was
    mom have whole wheat bread waiting to make us bread pudding

    i cant sleep
    i dunno why
    eyes hurting so much they want to sleep
    and i have to get up in a few hours (well half hour to pray) but few hours to work

    :-(

    my new mattress was so comfy when i get it…now same old same old restless me

    # 23 January 2007 at 4:39 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    that’s how i felt about my big fluffy pricesmart pillow :(
    but if you don’t get some sleepy you risk being a zombie :cry:

    yum, whole wheat bread pudding rulez :) will she wake up and pray with you too? :)

    i should sleep too :( in a sec… prepping cookbooks to send out … :(
    haven’t forgotten your packages!! what kinda music you like :) ?

    # 23 January 2007 at 5:02 am | link
  • Marsha said:

    I love the look of this pudding…I am not a fan of cinnamon but mmmmmm (I think I am the only person I know who doesn’t like cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves or star anise- the aromatics- It’s due to misuse and abuse by my mom in a lot of recipes)
    Meanwhile your favorite person Nigella Lawson makes a great bread pudding hahahah (I had to throw that in)

    # 23 January 2007 at 1:02 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    that’s true… it’s easy to think wow if 1 pinch of this spice is awesome… 1 tablespoon must be THE MOST AWESOME :D haha

    nigella :twisted:

    actually she had a trifle that looked good once… bread pudding is one of the few things the brits have accomplished with a yum factor … go figure that involves leftovers :P (waits to be beaten and flogged by Trig for that) …

    # 23 January 2007 at 1:08 pm | link
  • Rachel said:

    Wow, great way to use up extra bread! Make bread pudding! You used glazed donuts? I never would have thought of that. I bet is worked just fine.

    I’ve never heard of goolab jamoon, is it like cuban bread?

    # 23 January 2007 at 6:36 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    hee rachel! :) and to think i went to all the trouble of linking to what it was in the post :D but oh you want me to do it again? :D fine :P

    http://www.trinigourmet.com/index.php/ole-year-offerings-2006-trinidad-goolab-jamoon-and-sarinas-passionate-mint-tea/

    i didn’t used glazed doughnut, i just figured that americans have more of those around than goolab jamoon :lol:

    # 23 January 2007 at 7:21 pm | link
  • Marsha said:

    I think it is a great idea to use your sweet treats and some bread though. I am a big fan of donuts and they are sometimes on sale so I am gonna try it one day…

    # 23 January 2007 at 7:23 pm | link
  • Marsha said:

    Using donuts is a great idea Nikki. I hadn’t thought of that but they are so great on their own..they would work so well in a pudding

    # 23 January 2007 at 7:25 pm | link
  • Lilandra said:

    mom says yes she food processes it
    she says her mother used a mill

    weird huh?
    lots of weird food eccentricities get passed down straight from my grandmother and who knows who else

    we all wake up in the morning (dawn) to pray
    some of us sometimes don’t really wake up…zombie

    # 24 January 2007 at 12:23 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    i sure i replied to this but i can’t find it

    music? sounds nice loud? anything? wait…no hiphop r&b :-p

    # 24 January 2007 at 12:29 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    yum

    doughnuts with icing? and jam too?

    # 24 January 2007 at 12:30 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    sure! :D why not :D make it a SUPAH SUGARY LIME :D

    # 24 January 2007 at 12:54 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    hehe :) sorted :D *ponders ponders*:D

    # 24 January 2007 at 12:55 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    i was akismeted!!!

    # 24 January 2007 at 2:06 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    yum

    chocolate doughnuts!

    # 24 January 2007 at 2:07 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    YOU WENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL?
    preppie

    :-p

    # 24 January 2007 at 2:15 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    HEY!! :D

    # 24 January 2007 at 7:15 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    OOO! that would b good! :D

    # 24 January 2007 at 7:16 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    akismet like it back on steroids :(

    # 24 January 2007 at 7:27 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    aha! so you admit it!!

    # 24 January 2007 at 4:07 pm | link
  • Sarina said:

    maybe :P

    # 24 January 2007 at 4:53 pm | link
  • Lilandra said:

    UWI PREP

    # 25 January 2007 at 12:49 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    it ruled :D

    # 25 January 2007 at 1:11 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    ha

    preppies

    # 25 January 2007 at 1:32 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    :P :P :P

    # 25 January 2007 at 1:33 am | link
  • Lilandra said:

    my goodness
    preppie and proud!
    some of you preppies went my my secondary school so i know what i talking about!

    # 25 January 2007 at 1:57 am | link
  • Sarina said:

    and we were sweet as sunshine ent? :D

    # 25 January 2007 at 9:10 am | link

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