BERRY AND THYME SKILLET SPONGE PUDDING

So easy, light and yummy; the berries soak into the sponge as it’s cooking and the thyme makes this pudding a little bit more special. It so stupidly simple to make. I love this dessert – super easy and totally delicious, and also lower in fat and higher in fibre and omega 3’s.  Serves 4

Ingredients
3 cups mixed frozen berries
1 Tbs chia seeds
1 tsp fresh thyme leaves + extra for serving
1 vanilla bean
1 egg
2 Tbs coconut sugar
1/4 cup wholemeal spelt flour
1/4 tsp BP
25cm skillet that is oven proof

Preheat oven to 200 Celsius.

Scrape the vanilla pod and place 1/2 the seeds and the whole scraped pod in a 25cm skillet
with the berries, chia, thyme and 1/4 cup water. Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove the pod.

Beat the egg & sugar together until doubled in volume. Mix through the other half of the vanilla seeds. Mix the flour and BP together. Fold flour into the egg mixture gently until just combined.

Dollop the batter over the berries and then bake in the oven for 10 minutes until golden. Serve with a sprinkling of icing sugar (optional) and the extra thyme leaves.