Popular Chef and Canadian food writer Gail Simmons once said, “There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts”. Here we go with four easy and delicious Pudding recipes that you must try to get your buddies around you.
1. Caramel Bread Pudding
Course: Desserts
Cuisine: Indian
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
Bread Slices - 2 big slices around 1 cup cubed
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar - 2 tablespoon
Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1/4 cup
Eggs - 2
Vanilla Essence - 2 teaspoon
Sugar - 1/4 cup for caramel
Ghee - 1 tsp
Instructions
- Take bread, milk, sugar, condensed milk, eggs and vanilla in a blender and puree till smooth.
- Take a baking pan, grease with some ghee. Sprinkle some sugar over it and place it over heat. Cook till you get nice caramel color. Do not burn the sugar.
- Now cool the tin for few minutes.
- Pour the prepared custard on top.
- Cover the pan with foil or plastic wrap and place it in a steamer and cook for 40 to 45 minutes.
- Remove it and insert a knife to check whether the cake is done or not.
- Now pop the pan in fridge and let it chill for 2 hours.
- Slice and serve.
2. Chocolate Pudding
Course: Desserts
Cuisine: American, World
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
2 1/4 cups milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, whisk together the sugar, cocoa powder, cornstarch, and salt. Over medium heat, slowly add the milk, whisking constantly. Bring the mixture to a boil and continue to whisk for an additional minute. The mixture will be thick at this point. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla and butter until melted.
- Pour into individual serving dishes if desired. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour.
3. Vanilla Pudding
Course: Desserts
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
2 1/4 cups milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, whisk together the sugar, cocoa powder, cornstarch, and salt. Over medium heat, slowly add the milk, whisking constantly. Bring the mixture to a boil and continue to whisk for an additional minute. The mixture will be thick at this point. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla and butter until melted.
- Pour into individual serving dishes if desired. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least one hour.
3. Vanilla Pudding
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups whole milk
1/2 cup cream
1 egg
2 egg yolks
¾ cup sugar
4 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
4 tablespoons butter cubed
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
½ teaspoons salt
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine milk and cream. Stir and slowly bring to a simmer.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, and cornstarch until blended well.
- Ladle a cup of the hot milk mix over the eggs and whisk immediately. While continuing to whisk pour in the rest of the hot milk into the eggs.
- Return the custard mixture back into your original saucepan and place over medium/low heat.
- Whisk the custard constantly for roughly 6-8 minutes or until it has thickened. Do not let this mixture boil.
- Once thickened, remove from the heat and whisk in the butter, vanilla extract, vanilla paste, and salt. The last step is to pass the custard through a sieve to yield you a silky smooth pudding and remove any lumps.
- Serve the pudding cold as is or with whipped cream and fruit on top. Store the pudding in the fridge for up to 4 days.
4. Apple Pudding
Course: Desserts
Cuisine: English
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
Apples, diced- 3
Water- ½ cup
Milk- 1½ cups
Condensed milk- ¾ cup
Water- ½ cup
Almonds, chopped- ¼ cup
Instructions
- In a saucepan placed over medium heat, combine milk and condensed milk. Cook and let milk come to a slight boil.
- While the milk comes to a slight boil- In a blender puree 3 apples diced with ½ cup water till smooth.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat.
- Only after the saucepan is taken out of the heat, add the pureed apples. Combine well.
- If pureed apples are added to hot milk, it could curdle.
- Give a taste and add more condensed milk if you prefer more sweet.
- If adding red delicious apples, the pureed apples will be very sweet so adjust the amount of condensed milk accordingly.
- Add chopped almonds, combine well.
- Let the pudding mixture cool down for 5 minutes.
- Pour into bowls and place in the refrigerator to set for an hour to 2 hours.
- The pudding will set quickly.
- Enjoy the delicious apple pudding
Do give it a try!
Written by - Abija PB.
Edited by - Gunika Manchanda
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