Lemon Budino {gluten-free, dairy-free}
Ingredients
- 3 large eggs
- ¼ cup honey, or sweetener of choice
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ cup blanched almond flour, or unsalted, raw cashews
- ¾ cup full-fat coconut or almond milk
- ⅓ cup fresh lemon juice (juice of about 2 lemons)
- zest of two lemons
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Set four to six heatproof bowls or ramekins into a large baking pan that is at least 2 inches deep. Boil approximately two litres or quarts of water (to create a water bath for the custards) and set aside.
- Combine eggs with honey and salt in a medium-sized bowl, and beat until thickened and almost doubled in volume, approximately 2-5 minutes.
- For the silkiest custard texture, blend almond flour, or cashews, and coconut milk - either with a hand blender or regular blender, until the mixture is smooth without any obvious lumps or graininess.
- Add nut milk mixture and lemon juice to eggs and honey and beat again, and then stir in the lemon zest by hand.
- Ladle the budino mixture evenly into the bowls, stirring with the ladle to blend as you go, so all the bowls will have the same mixture of ingredients, as the foamier part tends to float to the top.
- Carefully pour the previously boiled hot water into the pan until it reaches about 1 inch up the sides of the bowls.
- Place the pan into the hot oven. Remove after 30 minutes, or sooner if you notice the tops of the budini starting to turn brown. Carefully remove the bowls from the pan of hot water (I usually use a spatula and wear rubber gloves to help me lift them out of the pan), and set them on a dishtowel to cool. Serve at room temperature. Optionally, you can also top these with a daub of coconut whipped cream.
- *If you would like to make this low oxalate, use coconut milk instead of almond milk. You can use 1/4 cup of all-purpose einkorn or regular flour in place of the nuts (or 1-2 tbsp corn starch); 1/4 cup of einkorn flour has approximately 4.5mg of oxalates, whereas the same amount of almond flour has approximately 145mg. While lemon juice is low, I couldn't find any information about lemon zest, so if you're concerned about that, you could leave it out. All the other ingredients are low (eggs, honey, salt, lemon juice).