Sunday 25 September 2011

Fruit custard pudding

This is for you Nazia :) 
Ingredients :
Full cream milk -1 litre ,
Custard pwd -4 tbsp ,
Sugar - 2 tbsp (grounded ),
Cream -400 gm ( whipped ),
Sugar - 2 tbsp ,
Marie biscuits -1 small pkt ,
Krack jack biscuits -1 small pkt,
Vanilla essence - few drops ,
Apple -1 ( peeled and cubed ),
Pear -1 small ( peeled  cored and cubed ),
Orange -1 ( peeled and deseeded and  segmented ),
Pomegrenate -1 small ( cut and seeds seperated ),
Dry fruits - few almonds ,raisins ,pistachios  slivered ),
Cinnamon -1 stick ( crushed and powdered ).
Gelatin - 2 tsp dissolved in 2 tbsp of  warm water for 10 mints .
Method:
You can use any light biscuits for this recipe .
Crush the biscuits with a rolling pin .
Take out 1/4 cup cold  milk from 1 litre and mix 4 tbsp of custard pwd and make sure there are no lumps .
Heat milk and reduce it to half or  let it simmer in low heat for 15 minutes). Raise the heat and then add 2 tbsp of sugar .
Add the custard pwd ( mixed with cold milk) . The milk will thicken as you pour the custard  . Stir continously for 7 to 8 minutes .Close gas .
When custard is luke warm add the gelatin .Mix.
Sprinkle some cinnamon pwd in the custard .Sieve the custard in a bowl and keep in the fridge to set for an hour .
Take out the cream in bowl and with a blender whip the cream till it forms  peak .( 15 -20 minutes 
( Place the cream bowl on a  bowl of  ice water while you are whipping the cream )
Mix 2 tbsp of powdered sugar  and mix with a spoon very gently or whip for half a second.
Grease  the dish in which you plan to serve  the pudding .
Spread half of crushed biscuits and then spread a layer of ( half ) custard ,then half of fruits ,then half of cream layer .sprinkle some dry fruits .
Top it with left crushed biscuits ,and repeat the same process .
Decorate the top layer of cream with pomegrenate seeds and sprinkle dry fruits and cinnamon pwd .
Keep the fruit custard pudding in the fridge overnight to set or at least  6 hours to set .
Serves 8 to 10 



2 comments:

  1. Hi Nazia , when you were here ,Tunu was the one who made all the effort in making this pudding for you .I only had to make custard .But this time i missed tunu and you while making this dish :(

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