How easy is it to make custard? Oh!!! you might say bring the custard powder from the market, mix it in milk and custard is ready. Well, you are right, but how abut if I say that we can make fruit custard without using those custard powder from the market. Now what is your answer my friends.......???
What shocked ????? Ok do not worry, today I will share my recipe of cooking fruit custard without using custard powder. However, before I show you how to make it, let me share some facts about custard.
Do you know that custard was invented for personal use.....? A scientist named Alfred Bird invented custard and baking powder in 1837, he was living in Birmingham, England and his wife was not able to eat eggs, thus Dr. Bird wanted to make something which could give the taste and feel of eggs and yet is egg-less.
He tested mixing lot of variety of flours with each other and at the end, ended up making custard powder using corn starch. Later it was Dr. Bird himself who started marketing and commercializing his own custard powder and by the end of year 2004, Bird's custard powder became a household item all over England. Later Dr. Alfred Bird sold off his awesome invention to a company known as Premier Foods.
Did you know - that custard powder is a potential explosive ? Yes, if you can make a dust cloud out of custard powder and then ignite these dust cloud in a confined space, then it can cause an explosion and emit lot of CO2 (carbon dioxide) [DO NOT EVEN THINK OF TRYING THIS AT HOME]. I am sharing these facts just for knowledge purpose only and will not be liable if any mishap or unfortunate events takes place due to any individual's negligence.
Well, lot of sharing of facts. Now let us see how to make a fruit custard without using custard powder. Let's Begin........
Ingredients and Steps:
Take a bowl.
- Add 1/4 cup water
- Add 1 pinch salt
- Add few drops of yellow color
- Add 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Add 1 tbsp rice flour
- Add 5 tbsp corn starch (arrarote)
Whisk well, so that no lumps are there. Keep the custard mix aside.
Heat up a pan.
- Add 1 ltr milk
- Add 75 grams sugar
Once milk heats little bit.
- Add the custard mix
Milk will start thickening.
Keep stirring and cooking in medium flame until it comes to a boil.
Take it out on a glass bowl.
- Add little butter on top
Spread all over the top - this is done so that the butter will not let the layer form on top of the custard while cooling.
Place the bowl in the refrigerator and let the mixture cool properly.
While the custard is cooling down, let us cut some fruits for our fruit custard.
You can take whatever fruits you want, however do not skip banana, that is one fruit which is most important for the recipe of fruit custard.
Let us take.
- 3 - 4 kiwi
- 1 apple (peeled)
- 10 - 13 grapes (green and black)
- 2 - 3 bananas
- 3 tbsp orange juice
- 8 - 10 strawberries
- 8 - 10 blue berries
- 10 - 15 pomegranate beads
Cut all the fruits in the shapes you like. Sliced, diced, fine chopped, small diced. I prefer to cut the hard fruits into small pieces and pulpy into big halves. You can add any type of fruits you want, I had used few and named them above, even seasonal fruits like mango can also be included.
Now take out the cooled custard. It will be thick, very thick.
Take a bowl
- Add the custard (only after staining it)
- Add 1/2 cup whipped cream
Whisk and fold both the ingredients together.
Take a serving glass.
- Put 1 tsp liquid chocolate at the bottom, or spread it on the glass.
- Add fruits
- Add the custard and whipped cream mixture
- Add more fruits on top to garnish
Garnish with 1 tsp rose syrup, serve it chilled.
Fruit Custard cum Truffle Pudding is ready.
BLOOPER: In India, pudding and custard are the same thing, though custard is different from pudding, but Indians love to call their custards - puddings.
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