Ingredients

  • Stergiou Family tsoureki with hazelnut praline 450g.
  • 150ml milk.
  • 80 ml cream.
  • 2 eggs (room temperature).
  • 170 g. bakering chocolate in total: 70 gr. grated and 100 gr. coarsely chopped.
  • 30 g. sugar.
  • ½ teaspoon salt.
  • 2 tubes/sachets of vanilla powder (3 g. total).
  • Banana ice cream to serve.

Steps

  1. In a pan, heat 150 ml. milk with 80ml. cream without boiling.
  2. Remove from heat when hot and add 70g of grated chocolate, stir to melt. Let stand to lightly cool.
  3.  In a bowl, beat the 2 eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla.
  4. Slowly pour the mixture you have in the bowl into the chocolate mixture and stir vigorously with a whisk. Make sure the milk is not hot!
  5. Divide the mixture in the saucepan into two equal parts. 
  6.  In one part add the tsoureki. Stir well to soak.
  7. Add the 100 g of coarsely chopped baking chocolate to the brioche mixture.
  8.  Place and spread the brioche mixture using a spatula in a greased oven proof dish.
  9. Once you have spread the mixture in the oven proof dish, pour the reserved chocolate mixture that you have set aside over the tsoureki mixture.
  10. Let the pudding sit for 30’ to absorb the liquids.
  11.  Bake in the oven at 180°C for 45-50’. After the first 20’ cover the baking dish with aluminium foil.
  12. When ready, let sit for 20 minutes then serve. Serve pudding with banana ice cream.
Chocolate tsoureki pudding with banana ice cream