Sunday Roast Dinner

Pip and Liam came for Sunday dinner today - it was great to see them. Pip had requested some vegan yorkshire puddings so Sam found me a recipe and i gave it a go. They were quite sucessful and we all had a couple and enjoyed them very much.

This is the recipe - 

Vegan Yorkshire puddings

4oz  plain (all-purpose) flour

salt to taste

1 heaped teaspoon gram flour (chickpea flour, besan)

half a pint of soya milk

vegetable oil

1. Preheat oven to 230C (450F). Pour a thin layer of vegetable oil in the holes of a Yorkshire pudding or muffin tin and place in oven. The oven needs to be hot and the oil needs to be hot.

2. Mix plain flour, salt and gram flour together with a whisk. Gradually pour in the soya milk taking in the flour slowly until all the milk is added and the flour is incorporated. Whisk with all your might until you can see bubbles. (I used the whisk attachment of my stick blender.) Note: the batter will be very thin, much thinner than pancake batter. It’s supposed to be that way.

3. Carefully remove tin from oven and fill the holes. If using a muffin tin, fill half way up; if using a Yorkshire pudding tin, fill all the way up. Put back in oven and cook for about 20 minutes. Don’t open the oven door to check them, as the oven needs to stay really hot. If your oven cooks hotter at the back than the front (like mine), you can rotate the tin halfway through, but do it quickly.

The only thing i did differently was to whisk the milk in our coffee machine to get lots of air into it. We bought the gram flour in Tesco - the smallest bag they had was 2kg - at a teaspoon a time i am going to have to make a lot of vegan yorkshires to use it up!! Better get researching some other recipes that use gram flour!