Green Bean Casserole and Steamed Chocolate Pudding

Green bean casserole is a dish enjoyed by many during the colder months of the year. It’s one of those things you come to expect at a New England dinner table, and makes the perfect side dish for a number of different proteins, or even as a standalone dish! It’s got everything you would want in a baked dish.

As a dessert dish this week, below is a recipe for a steamed chocolate pudding. This isn’t your standard plastic cup chocolate pudding; this is a proper pudding served in a rustic fashion: a tin can! It’s easy and gives a new life to something you would otherwise throw away after using.

Best Green Bean Casserole – Jan, allrecipes

Ingredients
Directions

Place green beans and soup in a large microwave-safe bowl. Mix well and heat in the microwave on HIGH until warm (3 to 5 minutes). Stir in 1/2 cup of cheese and heat mixture for another 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer green bean mixture to a casserole dish and sprinkle with French fried onions and remaining cheese.

Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven until the cheese melts and the onions just begin to brown.

Steamed Chocolate Pudding – Cooking Down East

Ingredients
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 squares chocolate
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon butter
Directions

Beat egg. Add sugar and continue to beat. Add melted butter and chocolate, that have been cooled.

Sift flour and measure. Sift together with salt and baking powder. Add dry ingredients alternately into creamed mixture with milk. Add vanilla.

Pour into greased pan and steam for 1 hour.

Steaming directions: Grease 2 tin cans well. Pour batter evenly into them both, and cover by tying wax paper to the top of the cans, or press aluminum foil to cover the top. Set cans into a pie plate. Pour hot water into pie plate. Set into oven. Bake 1 hour at 350 F (175 C).