Rich Caramel Pudding

Rich Caramel Pudding Recipe

 Caramel pudding is an dessert with a layer of soft caramel on the top. This dish is eaten throughout the world.

There are variants of plain pudding where sugar syrup is cooked to caramel stage and poured into the moulds before adding the custard base. Its usually cooked in bain-marie in the oven in a water bath or on a stove top. Its turned upside down and served with its own caramel sauce on top.

There are many kinds of puddings like Egg pudding, Milk pudding, Bread pudding, Chocolate pudding, Strawberry, etc, etc......

In my house caramel pudding is loved by everyone and is healthy too.

So today I will share with you all the pudding recipe which is made up of milk mixture baked in a dish with sweet caramel lining its base. You can always play with its flavouring as per your likes. Im making it with fresh Vanilla pods. So lets start with the recipe.

Rich Caramel Pudding

Ingredients: 

1 liter Full Fat/ Cream Milk
1 Vanilla bean split length wise or 1teaspoon Vanilla essence
4 nos. Eggs
3/4 cup Sugar. 

Method :

1. Take 3 tabelspoons of sugar in thick bottomed pan. Add few drops of water and stir gently so the sugar is evenly heated. Continue melting the sugar till it gets light brown color (according to personal preferences: for bitter- boil the sugar down to the vesicles till it gets dark brown color; for sweet-sugar boil and roll the mould so that the mould is evenly coated with the caramel and keep it aside for cooling.

2. Heat the milk in a pan with the remaining sugar and vanilla bean in it. Continue heating the milk till it gets reduced to half and let it cool down to the room temp.

3. Break the whole eggs and the egg yolks into a bowl and whisk it nicely. Pour the whisked eggs into the milk and stir it so that the milk and egg is mixed nicely.

4. Strain the milk mixture and pour it into the moulds. Cover it aluminium foil and place it in the cooker and steam it for 25 to 30 mins till the knife comes clean when inserted. Do not use the whistle. Remove when done and let it cool.

For Microwave steaming:

• Preheat the oven at 150 degrees C (300 degrees F).
• Place kitchen towel in the bottom of an oven tray.
• Place the moulds on the towel and add hot water to reach halfway up the moulds and bake for 90 mins till the knife comes out clean when inserted in. Take it out and let it cool.

5. Refrigerate the pudding until completely cold, then unmould and serve.

Note:

• Sugar can be adjusted int the pudding as per the sweetness required by you and your family.
• Caramel pot can be washed in hot water or can reheat the vessel with water.
• Oven temperature and time may differ, because each oven estimates are not the same.