Chocolate pudding. Lactose free.

I love chocolate, and desserts. But I have a lactose intolerance so I can’t have dairy, so I try to change my recipes (the ones I can, of course) for a non-dairy ones. This time I’m going to share with you the original version of this amazing chocolate pudding, and the lactose free version. It’s very easy, just need a few ingredients, and almost no time to make it. I hope you’ll like the recipe as much as I do (I admit I make this pudding quite often)

Here is the recipe:

Ingredientes: 6 pax.

700 ml milk. Any: Regular one, lactose free, almond milk, coconut milk...

100 gr. sugar 

2 Tbsp corn flour

2 Tbsp cocoa powder 

Pinch of salt

2 gelatin sheets 

90 gr. dark chocolate (I use 70%, but feel free to use from 52%)

1 tsp vanilla Bourbon paste

Method:

• Place gelatin sheets in cold water until soft.
• In a big bowl mix corn flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt.
• Add 100 ml of cold milk (from the 700ml) and whisk until well combined. We don’t want any lump here.
• Heat up the milk in a pan with the vanilla paste. Give it to a boil.
• Once it’s boiling, take it off the heat and pour some into the cold mixture. Whisk until all mixed and dissolved. Bring all the flour and cocoa mixture into the boiling milk pan.Low down the temperature to a medium heat and keep whisking (it prevents the pudding from creating lumps) until it comes to a boil once again.
• Take to off the heat and add the chopped chocolate. Stir until the chocolate is dissolved.
• Let it cool down a bit and add the gelatin sheets (don’t add them when boiling, because the gelatin collapsed/ “died” at boiling temperature)
• Don’t stop whisking until the temperature goes down (it has to be warm)
• Pour the chocolate mixture into your ramekins or wherever you want to serve it (I also use it to fill cakes)
• Cover with plastic wrap. Keep it in the refrigerator until cool (You’ll see that it will be quite thick)
• The texture is between a caramel pudding and a chocolate custard. It’s so delicate and delicious!

Enjoy it! 

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