Ideas for Black Pudding (in Addition to the Underarm Throw!)
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As you are no doubt aware this Sunday sees the exciting World Black Pudding Throwing Championships take place outside the The Oaks Pub in Ramsbottom from 12pm.
Contestants must lob three ‘competition standard’ (6oz) puddings underarm in an attempt to dislodge Yorkshire puddings that have been stacked on a 20 foot high (20 feet!) plinth! It is apparently a ‘celebration’ of the longstanding rivalry between Yorkshire & Lancashire.
If you are unable to make it to Ramsbottom this year or your pudding is not up competition standard, here are …
14 Delicious Ideas for Black Pudding
Serve as part of a fry-up, obviously.
Add to Salad
Sauté crumbled or chopped pieces in a little oil till crisp and black (I don’t often say that!) and toss in a salad. Add a poached egg if you feel like it.
Enhance Potatoes
Add crumbled pudding to potato cakes or bubble ‘n’ squeak or mashed potato or scalloped potatoes, etc.
Black Pudding Fritters
Dip diced or sliced black pudding in your choice of coating from those listed here and deep fry. They’d be good served with apple sauce to dip them in.
Black Pudding Stuffing
Add to homemade (or bought in, I suppose) stuffing – homemade stuffing recipe. This is particularly good with chicken and pork, of course.
Pork & Black Pudding Burger
Mix pudding with ground pork and make a tasty pork burger – here are instructions for making beef burgers, take it from there!
Scotch Eggs
Add black pudding to sausage meat when making Scotch Eggs, which are made thus – wrap cold hard boiled eggs (peeled of course!) in 70g-80g seasoned sausage meat per egg, making sure there are no gaps. Roll in beaten egg and then fresh breadcrumbs. Deep fry till crisp and golden.
Sausage Rolls
Just mix some black pudding into the sausagemeat when making sausage rolls.
Toad in the Hole
Add crumbled pudding to the sausages or replace the sausages with it in Toad in the Hole – although this does rather force the situation between two natural enemies.
Pizza Topping!
See here for a great easy pizza dough recipe plus suggestions. The Finan Crispy Pizza in that post would be good with added pudding or perhaps make a Black Puddng and Apple Pizza!
Add to Kedgeree
It always surprises me when Kedgeree is nice! It doesn’t sound very promising; curried rice with smoked fish, cream and boiled eggs. Well, firstly I totally agree with myself about the boiled eggs and never include them in kedgeree but apart from them this is a delicious combination. Guidelines only …
~ Cook an onion like this which is the Best Way to Cook Onions
~ Stir in a teaspoon of curry paste and cook a minute or two.
~ Add cooked basmati rice and toss all together till hot.
~ Toss in cooked smoked fish (and unsmoked fish if necessary) and a spoonful of double cream till heated through.
Instead of eggs I added some leftover petit pois.
An Eggs Benedict Variation
Substitute black pudding for the traditional Canadian bacon or ham and call it either Eggs Bury or Eggs Stornoway. Here’s lots of other ideas for Eggs Benedict including Hollandaise Sauce recipe.
A couple more ideas …
~ Sauté with Mushrooms and serve on toast
~ Stir through Baked Beans
Apparently there is an ongoing heated discussion between Lancashire and Scotland as to the origin of true black pudding. The version made in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis has been has been awarded Protected Geographical Indication by the The European Commission. It is known as “marag dubh” and I understand that it is smoother than the Lancashire version so will give it a try next time I am in Scotland.
In view of this rivalry I feel it would be inappropriate to lob a Stornoway Pudding at … anything, really.
Suzy Bowler
Having been a somewhat itinerant chef for over 30 years I was amazed, on my return to the UK, at the blatant food waste that now seems to be rife in the country; amazed and irritated. So much so that I decided to start a blog about spontaneous cooking from leftovers to show people that there are great alternatives to throwing food away.
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SarahC
Would also highly recommend Eat Like A Girl (Niamh Shields) "Spaghetti Corkese" using black pudding with oven roasted tomatoes to make a pasta sauce. Easily adaptable and delicious. I love black pudding, would never dream of hurling one down a hill!