Ricotta Cheese Pudding

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Ricotta Cheese Pudding

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This pudding is traditionally made using requeijao, a whey cheese, but ricotta cheese works just as well.The pudding is flavoured with cinnamon, Portugal's favourite spice.

Ingredients

butter for greasing
125g ricotta cheese
200g caster sugar
75g ground almonds
3 large eggs
1 tsp ground cinnamon
icing sugar to dust
fresh fruit and sweet port, to serve

Serves: 4 Preparation: 30 Cook Time: 40 Total Time: 70min

Directions

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Preheat the oven to //gas mark Butter an cm/n cake tin and line with buttered greaseproof paper.
Place the ricotta cheese in a bowl with the sugar and almonds and mash together with a fork, adding the eggs one by one. Add the cinnamon and beat the mixture really well &# you could use an electric mixer for this &# until smooth.
Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the centre of the oven for - minutes until golden and firm. Leave in the tin for minutes, then turn out and leave to go cold.
When cold, dust with a little icing sugar and divide it into portions. Serve with fresh fruit and a glass of sweet port.

Source: Tesco