Steamed Eggless Bread Pudding

          If you are looking for some easy to make dessert for any festival, then this is the perfect sweet dish that you can prepare in quite a short notice. It is a steamed eggless bread pudding that requires just milk and few bread slices. This way you can make use of all the leftover bread. So go ahead and give it a try by following an easy step by step pictorial recipe to prepare this simple dessert.

• 4 slices of brown bread, shred into small pieces
• 1 & 1/2 cups warm milk
• 2 tbsp. sugar
• 1 /4 tsp. cardamom powder
• 2 tbsp. raisins
• 1 tbsp. mixed fruit jam
• few cherries to garnish

          Add sugar and cardamom powder to the milk and stir till the sugar dissolves. Now add the bread pieces and raisins. Keep aside to soak for 15-20 minutes.

          Now add the jam and mix well. Pour this bread mix into a greased steel container. Close with an aluminum foil and poke few holes on the surface.

          Steam for 25 minutes on a medium flame in a pressure cooker, minus the vent. Set aside to cool and refrigerate for an hour.

          While serving, invert it on to a serving plate and garnish with cherries. Enjoy just as it is or as an after-meal dessert.

                                  Shred bread into small pieces.

                 Add sugar & cardamom powder to the milk & stir till sugar dissolves. 

                                  Add bread slices.

                                  Add raisins & keep aside to soak for 15-20 minutes.

                                  Now add jam & mix well. 

                                 Pour this bread mix into a greased steel container. 

                   Close with an aluminum foil & poke few holes. Steam for 25 min. on a 
                   med. flame in a pressure cooker, minus the vent. 

                                 Set aside to cool & refrigerate for an hour.

                  Invert it on a serving plate & garnish with cherries. Enjoy as it is or as 
                  an after-meal dessert.