Fruit Custard

I love custard since my childhood, and I can eat it at anytime of the day. Also, you can prepare this dessert at anytime of the year. More the fruits, more rich will be the taste.

Let's have a look at its preparation.


Cooking and Preparation time (including cutting the fruits): 45 - 60 minutes.

Serving: 5 - 6 people

Ingredients:

1) Milk: 750 liters

2) Vanilla Custard Powder: 3 - 4 tea spoons

It comes in different flavors such as strawberry etc.; however. I am going to use Vanilla flavor.

3) Sugar: 4 - 5 table spoons

The best thing about preparing desserts at home is that you can always control the level of Sugar. Generally, I prefer less sugar than the normal.

Let's see the fruits now

1) Strawberry - 5 - 6 pieces

You can chop them.

2) Orange Pulp 1.5 oranges will be enough

3) Pomegranate - Half will suffice

4) Apple (Chopped) - 1

5) Banana - This goes extremely well in a custard

Procedure:

Take a vessel with a heavy base.

Please note that it is very important for the vessel to be heavy from the bottom, else the milk along with the custard will stick at it.

As the milk is getting boiled, in the mean time, please take a bowl and add the custard powder in it. Now add 5 table spoons of cold milk in the custard powder and mix it properly.

We never add custard powder into the boiling milk as the powder might leave some bubbles and might not get dissolve properly; hence, to be on a safer side, we mix it in the cold milk in a small bowl.

Mix it properly until it looks like the image below.

Make sure that there are no thick custard powder bubbles. Now once the milk is boiled, put the burner on slow flame and add this custard.

Put the burner on high flame and wait for a boil. Alongside, stir it properly.

You will notice that the color will change in some time.

When you see the boil, add sugar, cook it on slow burner for 10 - 15 minutes. After that, remove the vessel from the stove and let the custard cool down. After sometime, keep it in the refrigerator.

Serving time:

Now chop all the fruits and put them in a bowl.

Please note that perform this step only at the time of serving this dish. When you want to eat custard, chop the fruits and add custard into it which you refrigerated sometime back.

As mentioned in the ingredients section above, I am using the following fruits.

Put all of them in a big bowl.

They look yummy!!!

Once the Custard gets cold in the refrigerator, add it on the top of the fruits.

And your delicious Fruit Custard dessert is absolutely ready. You can also garnish it with some jam which you can put at the center of the bowl while serving.

In case you feel while eating that the sugar is less, you can always add Amul Milkmaid on the top of it. Trust me, it will enhance the taste. 

Enjoy this delicacy and do let me know your feedback. I would love to hear experiences from you.

Carrots & Peas Masala

One of my favorites, this dish is very simple to cook. Sometimes, greatness is served in simplicity, and this dish is a perfect example. My mother in law taught me this preparation who also happens to be a very good cook.

Carrots and Peas come in the Winter season; hence, this dish is enjoyed in severe cold and goes great with yellow Daal and Chapatti. 

Cooking and Preparation time: 30 minutes

Serving: 2 - 3 people

Ingredients:

1) Indian Red Carrots (Chopped): 500 grams 

These carrots are very tasty and juicy. Also, they are extremely good for health.

2) Peas: 100 - 200 grams (Use fresh Peas instead of frozen ones)

3) Ginger

4) Green Chilies - Chopped

5) Asafoedita - 1/4 of a tea spoon

6) Cumin seeds - Half a tea spoon

7) Turmeric - Half a tea spoon

8) Salt - 3/4 of a tea spoon

9) Mustard Oil - 1 tablespoon

Procedure:

Take a pan and put some Mustard oil into it. This dish goes great with Mustard Oil; hence, that would be my recommendation. Once the oil is heated up, please add some Asafoedita (Hing) into it.

After a minute, add Cumin.

Once the Cumin is brown, add chopped Ginger and Green Chilies. 

Add some Turmeric and Salt.

After 2 - 3 minutes, add carrots and Peas.

Mix them well and add some water.

Keep it on slow burner for 15 - 20 minutes. Make sure you stir the mixture well after every five minutes.

And here you go. Your Carrots and Peas Masala is ready. Garnish it with Coriander leaves and enjoy.

Happy eating!!

Curd Rice

I am not a rice fan; however, I simply love this dish. It is very easy to prepare and does not take much cooking time. You just need to keep the ingredients ready, and once that is done, it will take another 10 minutes for cooking. So let's quickly have a look at the ingredients and preparation method.

Sweet and sour salad

A very healthy breakfast dish and very easy to prepare.

Preparation time: 20-30 minutes

Serving: 2-3 people

Ingredients:

1) Chopped Cucumber - 1

2) Chopped Tomatoes - 2 small

3) Chopped Onion - 1(small)

4) Banana - 1

5) Chopped Apple - 1

6) Lemon - 1

7) Coriander leaves

8) Green Chilies - 2

9) Salt as per taste

Procedure:

Take a bowl and add chopped Cucumber into it.

Now add chopped tomatoes.

Add copped Onions.

Add chopped Apple.

Add Banana.

Now mix them well and lemon.

Add Coriander leaves and salt.

Mix them well. That's all, your sweet and sour salad is ready.

Take two slices of bread, roast them, and put some butter on it. Have them with sweet and sour salad, and I am sure that you will love it.