Fruits and Nuts Custard
Fruits and Nuts custard is a refreshing cold dessert made with milk and instant custard mix. This creamy and chilled custard sauce is an excellent dressing for fruit salads and desserts.
Servings 4
Equipment
- Saucepan
Ingredients
For instant custard sauce
- 3 tablespoon instant custard powder
- 3 ¼ cup milk
- ¾ cup sugar white granulated
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
For toppings
- ½ apple diced
- ½ banana
- ½ cup grapes cut into half
- ¼ cup pomegranate arils
- ¼ cup chopped almonds
- 5 dates chopped
- 2 dry figs sliced
Instructions
Preparation
- Take 1/4 cup of milk and mix 3 tablespoon custard powder and set aside
- Chop all the fruits except bananas. Sprinkle a few drops of lemon juice over the fruits to prevent them turn brown. Cover and set aside in a refrigerator.
- Chop all the nuts and dry fruits and set aside.
To prepare custard sauce
- Heat 3 cups of milk on a slow flame, and keep stirring.
- When it starts to simmer and lightly boil, add the milk-custard mixture along with sugar, and vanilla essence.
- Keep stirring and cook the sauce on slow flame for about 10 minutes. Once the sauce thickens slightly, turn off the flame and set it aside for it to cool down.
- Pour the sauce into a glass container and refrigerate for 1 hour.
To make fruits and nuts custard
- Add the chopped fruits and chopped banana to the chilled custard sauce and mix well. Just add fruits as required according to the sauce. Do not add all fruits at once.
- Pour the dessert into the serving bowls and top it with chopped nuts and pomegranate arils or berries of your choice.
Notes
1 cup capacity = 250 ml
Adjust the consistency of the custard sauce by adding a little more milk to make it flowy or by cooking for a longer time to make it thicker.