STRAWBERRY PUDDING RECIPE

Strawberry base:

Strawberry jelly – 120 gm.

Fresh strawberry – 3

Sugar – 3 table spoon

Or 1 ½ table spoon and 1 ½ hot water (Depending on your sweetness tolerance level).

Method:

Microwave this for 3 minutes to get a liquid form base.

Pudding:

Egg –  3

Caster sugar – 30 gm

Milk – 120 ml or ½ cup

Double cream – 120 ml or ½ cup

Vanilla essence – ½ table spoon

Strawberry base (from the prepared mixture) – ¼ tablespoon

Pour this mixture to the serving dish and let this cool.

Pudding method:

1.    Mix milk and double cream together and in a heavy bottom pan ( use a larger pan)  and bring to boil.

2.    Just before boiling add sugar.

3.    Mix egg yolks together and add boiled mix to this mixture and stir well.

4.    Transfer this back to low heat and continue stir with a whisk (take this on and off from heat prevents curdles) till the mixture is thick.

5.    Add strawberry base mixture and stir well.

 Pour this mixture on top of strawberry base and garnish this with fresh cream.

 Refrigerate for 3 hours (at least) before serving. Enjoy the early spring.

Bread and Butter Pudding

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Bread and Butter pudding.

1.White Bread( crust removed)- 6 slices.
Butter - 3 tsp.

2. Sugar - 1 tsp.
Almond and/or cashew - 3 tsp.

3. Egg- 1
Milk - 1 cup.
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp ( or according to your taste).
Cardamon powder and cinnamon powder- 1/4 tsp.
Custard powder- 1/2 tsp (optional)

4. Raisins or dry fruits- 3 tsp.

5.Sugar- 1tsp (optional).

Jam - 2 tsp (optional).

Method.

1.Fry almond and cashew in sugar in a non stick and once cashew is coated with sugar. Take this out of pan ( It will be a bit sticky) and powder this.

2. Apply butter to both sides of bread.

3. In the serving dish (if you are using oven, then oven proof dish) apply a little bit butter and spread half of the powdered mixture and give the dish few shakes.

3.Place 2 bread slices in this dish and spread one tsp fruit mixture. Repeat this process with remaining bread and fruit mixture.

4. Warm milk, please do not boil.( If you are using micro wave less than a minute).

5. Beat egg and Vanilla essence together with the powders. Then slowly add the milk and beat well.

6. Pour this over the bread pieces.

Baking method.

Steam.


1. You can cover this in aluminium foil. Then steam this. Pour 1/4 water in to a steamer and steam in high flame for 10 mnts then lower the flame and for another 10 mnts.Remove from heat and tet this remain in in the foil for another 10 mnts. You can serve this hot or cold.


Over Bake:

Spread that 1 tsp sugar on top of the pudding.

1.Pre-heat oven. Fill boiling water in a baking try(half) and place the pudding dish. Bake in 180 degree for 45 mnts.

2.Warm the jam in a non stick pan and spread this on top of the pudding and bake in gas mark 6 for further 10mnts( optional).

Serve warm.

Enjoy..

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Palpayasam

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Easy Palpayasam / Milk and rice pudding (Pressure cooker version).

As any other malayali I am a huge fan of Payasams. My onam nostalgias
are always associated with payasams. Thinking about Palpayasam is
making me homesick again. Unlike other desserts this one has another
speciality. A temple in south India named Ambala puzha Sree Krishana
Temple is so famous for this palayasam as an offering to Lord Krishna.
After Onam I was thinking about preparing a payasam for Mr. P. May be
that was my excuse for preparing this payasam for my taste buds . I
have seen my amma preparing this payasam and was so sure it is going
to eat half of my Friday. So I thought I will go for the easy pressure
cooker version.

(Some pre-cooking preparations)

Boil water in the pressure cooker you are supposed to cook and rinse
well even the lid and weight.

Ingredients and preparation method.

1.Milk , Sugar and Raw rice (yes that read one). Ratio is 4 : 1: 1.

Means if you are using 4 cup milk, use 1 cup raw rice, 1 cup sugar.

Must ingredient. A very clean stainless steel spoon.
Optional ingredients.

1.Cardamom pods 2,3 .
2.Cashew nuts or raisins roasted in gee = few.
3.Condensed milk = ½ cup (if you are using condensed milk reduce the
amount of sugar to ½ cup)
Method.

1.Pressure cook the rice, sugar, crushed cardamom and milk don’t
forget to put that clean spoon.
2.After first whistle reduce the heat to low and let this cook in low
flame for a further 45 mins.(This slow cooking will give the rice that
pure milk taste).
3.Remove from heat and leave this for 10- 15 mins.
4.When it is cooled down remove the lid, remove the spoon  and add
the condensed milk and heat again for few mins. Stir well.
5.Garnish this with roasted raisins.
That is it….done…enjoy
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