Crème Caramel

As this is my 10th post, I thought why not post a sweet dish. So, here it is 'Caramel pudding'

Caramel pudding or Crème Caramel is by origin a French dessert. This is a simple humble pudding welcome at our  homes.

Few days back my close friend had come to UAE for a short visit. When she came  we had a small get together. Another dear friend of mine had got for us her caramel pudding. It tasted great. Let me share with you all this recipe. Its really easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

1. Milk - 2 cups
2. Eggs - 3
3. Vanilla essence - 2 tsp
4. Sweetened condensed milk - 1 big tin - 395 gm
5. Sugar - 4 /5 tbsp
6. Water- for making caramel sauce

Preparation Method:

Here I have used Long Life milk which is milk made from milk powder. This gives the dessert a rich texture.

Whisk the eggs well with a fork for say 2/3 mins. Pour in the sweetened condensed milk and whisk it well again. Now add in the milk. Stir it well so that the milk , eggs and the condendsed milk gets mixed well.

Now, lets proceed with making the caramel sauce. Take your sauce pan. Add the sugar and pour water just enough to dissolve the sugar. Turn on the flame and heat it. Stir till the sugar gets dissolved.

Once the sugar gets dissolved and the sugar syrup starts boiling stop stirring with the spoon as this will cause the sauce to crystalize.

Once the sauce starts turning caramel brown remove from flame and pour into your pudding dish used for making the pudding.

Now strain and pour our pudding mix into the caramelised dish. Its important to strain the mix in order to avoid air bubbles.Next we have to steam our pudding for around 20 mins. Remove from flame. Let it remain in the steamer for another 10 mins. 

Once the pudding has cooled  turn it upside down into a serving dish and refirgerate it.

Serve it cold.