This easy Pineapple Pudding is a great celebration dessert. The combination of pineapples reduced in sugar syrup along with the creamy luscious milk and condensed milk base tastes out of this world. It looks fancy and inviting and will impress your guests and loved ones.
Why you will love this?
- The best part of this dessert is how easy it is to make.
- It uses few ingredients, is done quickly, and tastes delicious.
- If you plan to serve it to guests at a get-together, it is better to make it a day in advance so it can be chilled well in the refrigerator.
- Making the dessert ahead can also help you concentrate on your main course items. You have one less menu item to worry about.
- You can substitute gelatin with agar agar or china grass as it is a plant-based derivative and vegan.
Ingredients Used:
- Milk and condensed milk is the main ingredient.
- Add Sugar if you want the pudding to be a little sweeter, most folks are happy with the sweetness of the condensed milk.
- Gelatin or Agar-agar thickens the pudding gives it a semi-solid texture and sets it as a gel on cooling.
- Pineapple chunks cooked in sugar syrup, you can use fresh or the one from the can.
How to make easy pineapple pudding?
The pudding gets a semi-solid and gel-like structure from the china grass or agar powder. You can also use gelatin if you like. I used agar powder. Agar-agar is a vegan substitute made from seaweeds or algae. It works just like gelatin and we use it as an adhesive, and emulsifier in thickening and solidifying certain food preparations. Unlike gelatin, agar-agar does not use any animal products.
We also need condensed milk, milk, and chopped pineapple (preferably ripe and sweet). The original recipe that I got from my folks back home, uses ten grams of china grass soaked in boiling water. However, using china grass the pudding that I made, did not set. I am not sure if it was due to the quality of the china grass brand that I used here in the US or it could be because it was closer to the expiry date. To fix it, I used a packet of unflavored gelatine in a quarter cup of hot water, mixed it and that helped set it.
The next time I made it, I used agar-agar powder, and voila it worked perfectly! I would recommend using agar-agar powder for a fool-proof recipe.
Easy Pineapple Pudding
Ingredients
- 1 tin condensed milk 7 0z can
- 4 tins milk Use the condensed milk can to measure the milk
- 4 tbsp sugar You could skip sugar as condensed milk is already sweet, add more if you like it sweeter
- 2 tsp gelatin agar agar prefered
- ¼ cup water To mix the agar-agar
- 1 can crushed pineapple You can also use equivalent freshly chopped pineapple
- 5 -6 tbsp sugar (for pineapple )
Instructions
For the Pudding base
- In a heavy bottomed pan , mix the condensed milk and milk and bring to a boil for about 10 mins .Ensure it does not get burned.
- Add the sugar and mix well.
- In another pan, heat up a quarter cup of water and add agar-agar powder.
- Mix well and let it sit for 10 minutes.
- Mix the agar-agar mixture to the milk and pour it into a flat tray.
- It will set in about 1 to 2 hours
- Refrigerate and take out when ready to serve.
For the Pineapple preserve
- In a pan heat up the chopped fresh or canned crushed pineapple after removing the liquid base.
- Add sugar as desired and keep cooking till it comes together into a nice preserve like consistency.
Assembling the Pudding
- Cut out neat squares of the pudding carefully and transfer to a dessert bowl.
- Top with the pineapple preserve and serve.
Nutrition
So you see how easy it was to make that. Hope you will give this a try! I would love to hear your feedback and comments if you try it out.
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This looks so tasty!
I recently made something similar, using tapioca as the thickener. I will try your version with agar soon! 🙂
This looks like something I would try. I think I should add it to my condensed milk recipes. Thanks for this.
Ooh la la! This looks so easy to make and delicious. I do have agar agar at home and I can't wait to try out the vegan version of this recipe with less sugar and using plant based milk instead.
sounds very easy and delicious. My husband (who is the main cook here) loves agar-agar, he claims it is easier and more pleasant to work with it compared to gelatin if even you disregard the origins of the products. I am a huge fan of pineapples and would eat it with everything!
Such an easy recipe and so refreshing for this hot summer!!
Congratulations on your new job! I am sure the transition is probably hectic but once you get into a routine it will be a breeze. This recipe looks so good and perfect. My hubby loves pineapples so I think I can handle making him this for dessert!
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I love an easy dessert at the weekend, thanks for the recipe, I will give it a try!
Oh this looks delicious. I bet it tastes amazing. I really must get into the kitchen more and use your recipes for some culinary inspiration!
Wow! This looks good. I haven't really tried pineapple pudding and would love to give this a try. Thank you for sharing the recipe.
I love pineapple so I just know I would love this! It also looks pretty easy to make - saving this for future!
This looks really pretty and we love pineapple too, so we will be deffo trying this out. thank you for sharing x
Nisha, This looks so delectable.
I love pineapple, and I love pudding. But this is my first-time hearing of pineapple pudding! Bookmarking this so I can try it later!