Plantain (No) Bread Pudding

I love the changing of seasons, especially the move from summer into fall.  It gives me so much motivation to reflect on how I have been living for the past season and how I want to move forward in the coming season.  B and I made a lot of good changes in our lives in the past year.  Most of the changes started by reading the book The Compound Effect.  It is about all the little choices and actions we take during the day that have long term effects, whether good and bad.  It’s been about a year since we read the book, so this seems like an especially good time to reflect on what we are doing well and what should change in our daily lives.  I want to increase my intentionality in relationships.  I’m just enough of an introvert that it’s way too easy to stay home alone drinking tea.  During the upcoming fall season, I am going to focus on growing my healthy relationships even more.

I realized this week that I posted this recipe for Plantain (No) Bread Pudding on Instagram a long time ago, but never on the blog!  It’s a really fun, easy recipe.  It can be dessert or even breakfast.  I may have had it for dessert last night and breakfast this morning. :). I use very ripe plantains for this recipe, not green.

Plantain (No) Bread Pudding

Serves 6, 25 min

For filling:

1 T coconut oil

2 eggs

1/2 c full fat coconut milk

1/2 t cinnamon

1/4 c almond flour

1 plantain, sliced in thin circles

For topping:

1/4 c chopped walnuts

1/4 c shredded coconut

1/4 t cinnamon

2 T coconut oil

For sauce:

3 T honey

3 T almond butter

1-3 T water, depending on thickness of almond butter

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 F

2. Grease 9" pie pan with coconut oil.

3. Whisk eggs, coconut milk, cinnamon, & almond flour in small bowl.

4. Place plantain circles evenly in pie pan

5. Pour egg mixture over plantains, pushing any into it that stick out.

6. In small bowl, mix topping ingredients with fingers. Sprinkle over pie pan.

7. Bake for 18 min or until knife inserted comes out clean

8. Place honey and almond butter in small microwaveable dish and microwave for 15 second. Stir together and add water slowly to get desired consistency. 

9. Let dish sit about 5 minutes before serving.

10.  Drizzle sauce over the slices.