Best Way to Prepare Black Pudding?
Posted by Doodles_n_Scribbles@reddit | AskABrit | View on Reddit | 17 comments
Getting some black pudding because blood sausage seems kinda appropriate for Halloween/Fall. What's the best way to prepare it? I think it's off served with a full English on fried slices, but are there any other methods y'all enjoy?
CharlieBigTimeUK@reddit
Uncooked with cheese on a sandwich
Jazzlike-Basil1355@reddit
Sear it both sides, wrap tightly in foil. Seal in plastic, and insert it in a lead box. Catch a ferry and discard over the side when furthest from any land mass. No, I’m not keen! Although I like the hogs pudding, which is white as there is no congealed blood, and fry it in slices in the pan.
BlackJackKetchum@reddit
Fry/airfry it and put it in a bacon sandwich. Prepare for transcendence.
Calls_Everyone_Benny@reddit
Aside from the obvious it goes pretty well in a macaroni cheese. Mac 'n' Black.
Extension_Sun_377@reddit
In Bury, Lancashire where it comes from, it's eaten boiled in its skin like a baked potato (this is the horseshoe shaped pudding not the sticks) with mustard.
This link gives you lots of different ways to prepare it - https://www.buryblackpuddings.co.uk/how-to-cook
CleanEnd5930@reddit
Sliced, with a fried egg, maybe in a roll. Or crumbled into mashed potatoes and fried into a potato cake.
Worth knowing there’s a difference between Bury and Stornoway versions (you prob have Bury, which means it slices easier but can be a bit drier) and that you probably need to take the skin off before you eat it - tho leave it on for cooking.
Doodles_n_Scribbles@reddit (OP)
It was very clove heavy
Slight-Brush@reddit
Nah, that’s the best way. Slice it thickly and fry it slowly so it doesn’t erupt out of its skin.
SnoopyLupus@reddit
Yeah. It goes particularly well with the beans.
Disastrous-Fail6699@reddit
prepare it? I eat it raw.
terryjuicelawson@reddit
That is how the majority use it for sure, it is a bit much on its own. It works well also as a counter to something like a scallop. But chopped into rings and fried is the basis for any time I have had it I think.
herefromthere@reddit
On a fried slice sounds a bit full-on. I'd put it with something a bit lighter as part of a breakfast, as a seasoning almost to scrambled eggs or beans on toast. Cut a slice like a big coin, fry it slowly, either crumble it on or put it on the side and take a nibble with each bite of egg/beans/toast.
One Spanish way I've had and like to make with black pudding is to stew broad beans and red wine and crumble some black pudding into the sauce, that's really nice.
Sometimes I have it with leftover rice and vegetables as a fried rice dish.
Same thing can be done with haggis to similar effect.
Doodles_n_Scribbles@reddit (OP)
I meant fried in slices, as in slicing into pucks and frying, but the damn autocorrect messed with me and I didn't catch it.
herefromthere@reddit
Some people would really go for that, to be fair.
maskapony@reddit
I had eggs benedict with a thin slice of black pudding under the egg.
Also works well as small cubes in potato cakes.
generalscruff@reddit
Spoons round my way sell it on the breakfast menu as 'Miner's Benedict'
Dogsafe@reddit
It's a good seasoning if that makes sense. It's a bit much by itself but on a fork with egg, hashbrown, whatever it adds a nice flavour.
With this in mind, you can mix it into other things. I've seen scotch eggs and croquettes but I imagine it would work mixed into burgers or omelettes etc.