The Ultimate Yorkshire Pudding Recipe

There’s one meal that I can guarantee my 3 girls will devour in silence – A Sunday Dinner/Sunday Roast (whatever you call it they still eat it!) Whether we go out to eat on a Sunday (not very often) or cook a meal here (not that often either sadly), its always a success. We always end up asking ourselves why we don’t do it more often.

Of course, no Sunday dinner would be complete without yorkshire puddings. All my 3 love them and I’m proud to say I’ve somewhat perfected the technique of them over the past 12 months. Its true the trick really is to get the oil (vegetable oil in my case) as hot as can be before you pour the batter in but equally you need to make sure you don’t overfill the tins. Whenever I see a recipe that serves 12 mini yorkshire puddings, I mostly tend to get at least 20 out of it. There is nothing worse than stodgy batter left at the bottom of your yorkshire!

Ingredients:

140g plain flour
pinch of salt
4 eggs
210g milk
1 tsp vegetable oil for each pudding

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 220C until it comes to temp – Don’t be tempted to start cooking before it is hot enough
• Measure out 1 tsp of vegetable oil into each ‘hole’ of a muffin tin tray – As said earlier, I normally get at least 20 puddings out of the mix
• Place in the oven for at least 5-10 mins until blistering hot – You will need to have your pudding mix ready to pour in, so don’t get the oil out of the oven until the very last minute
• In a large bowl, put the flour and the salt
• Whisk the eggs and whisk into the flour – it may go lumpy but don’t panic
• Whisk the milk in until all the lumps have vanished
• Pour into a jug – its so much easier to divide equally into the muffin pan
• You only need at most 1cm of batter at the bottom of each pan
• Place in the oven for 25 minutes (I’d check after 20 if you can see through your oven door – whatever you do, do NOT open before 20 minutes is up)
• When they are golden and crispy, remove and take out of the tin as soon as possible.
• Eat and enjoy!