Easy Praline Pudding

                                            

                                                                                                           



Puddings or desserts are always a delight to have.. My hubby and kids.. they just love the desserts made at home..Whenever I am invited over for lunch or if we go out for for dinner, I always make sure there is sufficient space left for the yummy desserts..

It's always a pleasure for me to try out different desserts. I guess we are all familiar with the good old china grass. Well, why don't we give it a twist and try our pudding with a Praline topping.

China grass is another name for agar agar which is a gelatine extracted from seaweed.  Praline is a confection which is prepared from sugar syrup and nuts. We can use cashew or almonds. Here I have used cashew nuts.

So, let's try out this easy "Praline Pudding"

Ingredients:

1. China grass - 10gm
2. Milk - 1/2 litre
3. Sweetened condensed milk - 1 big tin - 395 gm
4. Cashew nuts - 4tbsp
5. Sugar - 4/5 tbsp

Preparation method:

Let's first prepare the praline. What we need to do is prepare 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.

When the sauce starts turning light brown add in the whole cashews and remove from flame.
What we need to take care is that the sauce must not turn dark brown as this might cause the cashews to burn.

Pour this mixture into a plate lined with parchment paper. Once it cools , break into small pieces and pulse in the grinder so that we get a coarse mixture of the praline. Store in an airtight container.

Next, lets move on to make the pudding. First, we need to dissolve the china grass. So, what we need to do  is soak the china grass in 1 cup of water for 15-20 mins. Then just heat this mixture till the china grass completely dissolves.

Next take the milk in a saucepan and add in the condensed milk. Mix it well and  let it boil  for say 5 mins.Remove from flame. Immediately add the dissolved china grass mix to this boiled milk and stir well so that it gets comletely mixed with the milk. Please note that while mixing the dissolved china grass with milk, both needs to be of the same temperature to avoid hardening of the china grass.

Take care not to boil the milk once you have added the china grass as the milk might curdle. Now pour the pudding mix into a serving dish. Let it cool and then refrigerate. Serve it cold with a generous topping of the yummy Praline.