Sometimes my children ask me for budino for afternoon tea. They like chocolate budino with chocolate glaze. I prefer vanilla with raspberry sauce. Today I also prepared budino, but this time it was a base for a layered dessert with fruit and nuts. That way the budino changed from a pre-school snack into quite a smart dessert. I mixed the sweet chocolate layer with light chia budino, pomegranate and salty, crunchy pistachios. A surprising combination? Maybe, but it was excellent.

Ingredients (for 4 people)
500ml of milk
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 teaspoon of butter
1.5 tablespoons of potato flour
1.5 tablespoons of wheat flour
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
2 teaspoons of chia seeds
100g of dark chocolate
pomegranate
chopped pistachios (leave a few nice ones for decoration)

Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie. Boil 400ml of the milk with the butter. Mix 100ml of the milk with both kinds of flour, sugar and vanilla essence. Pour the mixture into the boiling milk and boil, stirring constantly. Divide the budino into two parts, smaller and bigger. Add the chia seeds to the smaller one and mix them in. Add the melted chocolate to the bigger one and mix it in. Arrange the ingredients in some bowls in layers: chocolate budino, peeled pomegranate, chopped pistachios, chia budino, chocolate budino. Decorate with the pomegranate and whole pistachios.

Enjoy your meal!

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