Steak and kidney pudding

(Bruce) #1

Any Brits here who have any idea how to make a keto suet pastry for a steak and kidney pudding. I love this dish but need to, obviously, avoid the flour.
I know one can make pastry with almond or coconut flour but I’ve never seen a suet pastry recipe that’s keto friendly.

('Jackie P') #2

I hope someone comes up with something because I have been looking for a recipe for suet crusy pastry for ages!
My steak and kidney pie with suet crust pasty has been legend for years and I would love to replicate it. Suet is certainly keto friendly, just need someone to calculate how much almond or coconut flour and baking powder!

(bulkbiker) #3

Would this work without the choc, almond milk and honey?
http://www.paleopantry.org/gluten-free-steamed-chocolate-pudding/

(Bruce) #4

Looks interesting but a suet sponge is different to a suet crust pastry that lines the pudding bowl before putting the meat in. However, it might give me something to work with.
Thanks

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #5

The Fathead pizza recipe is cream cheese, mozzarella, almond flour, and egg. I’d start there, perhaps. Is this crust anything like Yorkshire pudding? My ex was British and would occasionally make that, but I don’t recall his ever making steak and kidneys.

(Alec) #6

Bruce
Have you had a go at this? I would love to give it a try. I LOVE steak and kidney pudding, and if we can get the pudding bit to be keto, this would be a wonderful keto food. @MarkGossage ‘s recipe looks pudding like and might work… I might give it a try. It has suet in it. Is suet mainly fat?

(Karen ) #7

Hey, I haven’t made a suet pudding but I have made dumplings with coconut flour I just made as usual and added the flour until the consistency felt right. Please let me know how you get on I would love a steak pudding x

(Rachel) #8

Is this any good to make your base.

Best wishes

(Alec) #9

Alas, this is a pie crust, and not a pudding. The pudding base is like a steam pudding rather than a pie crust. But thanks for the good recipe all the same. I love pies!

(Gillian-Louise Smith) #10

3/4 coconut flour to 1/4 chestnut flour (a bit carby but alas that works) 10ml spoonful of baking powder per 225gm(1/2lb) half weight of suet. Follow Delia Smith’s recipe from the winter collection for Kate and Sidney. Not quite as light and needs 4 hours not 5 hours steaming. Remember to sift, and give the flour a mix with a knife so it’s all melded together. Coconut isn’t as patient with water as wheat flour so add slowly, but just follow Delia’s recipe substituted with the flour blend. You could add xanthan gum which is available in most supermarkets for a lighter mix, but I didn’t. Doesn’t collapse when turned out and acceptable. So if you had 12oz of flour that would be 15ml of baking powder and 6oz suet. Could use Silverwood mini pudding basins that Delia uses for sticky toffee puddings for an individual pudding, but it would take about 3 hours in a mini pudding basin not 4. Delia recommends 5 hours but this pastry cooks quickly so cut the cooking time. Recipe available to watch on YouTube.

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #11

Welcome, @Gillian-Louise! This recipe sounds amazing - I think Mr S will love this!

(Kidney is one of the very very few things I struggle to enjoy eating… liver too, unless it’s in pate - but with the right kind of pastry enrobing it, well, who knows?)

(Gillian-Louise Smith) #12

Ox kidney, not lambs kidney which can be a little urine-smelling. Small pieces and remove the sinew and skin. Enjoy! If you haven’t got time for YouTube I will surmise. Sift the flours. Discard the coconut flakes. Add baking powder. Stir with knife.Add suet. Slowly add cold water, until it melds. Not sticky.Flour board and pin roll to circumference of pudding basin. Prepare the meat and onion. Smaller meat pieces and kidney than Delia, because less steaming as dough mix is more fragile. I also add to the meat/kidney/onion mix a dessert spoon of tamari along with the Worcestershire sauce. Remember to order the kidney as it largely goes to pet food now from the butchers. Ox not lamb. Heston Blumenthal does a recipe with oxtail.