Sunday, May 20, 2012

Straightforward Recipe to Turn Straightforward Bread into a Mouth-watering Pudding

By Anukriti Parsai


When you are in a rush and wish to make some straightforward pudding without needing to go off and do some shopping for ingredients, then the following bread pudding recipe will certainly become your favourite. It uses straightforward ingredients like bread and bananas and turns them into something super tasty that no-one will be able to resist. Here's my easy banana bread pudding recipe.

What you may need:

- Bread cubes - 7 cups (crust removed)

- Giant eggs - 6

- Sugar - 3/4 cup

- Salt - 1/2 spoon

- Heavy whipping cream - 1 1/2 cups

- Half and half - 1 1/2 cups

- Vanilla extract - 1 spoon

- Dark brown sugar - 1/4 cup

- Butter - 3 tablespoons (use unsalted butter)

- Fresh lime juice - 1 large spoon

- Medium-sized ripe bananas - 4

Method:

- Heat the stove to 350F.

- Spread the bread cubes on a baking sheet. Gently roast the bread in the cooker for about 7 minutes to dry them. I love to spread a little butter on them, but you can roast them as they are.

- Remove from the oven and put aside to cool.

- Take the eggs, sugar, vanilla extract and 1/8 teaspoon of salt in a bowl and whisk them together.

- In a pan, take the cream and half and half and bring them to boiling on medium flame. Broil for 2 minutes and take from the flame.

- Slowly tip the egg mix in the cream mix and whisk to mix well.

- Employ a fine separate to strain the prepared custard in a bowl. Put aside to cool to lukewarm temperature.

- While the custard cools you can prepare the bananas. Peel and slice the bananas lengthwise and cut them crosswise in thin pieces.

- In a saucepan, take the butter and brown sugar and stir on low heat till you get a sauce, then add the lemon juice.

- Toss the banana pieces in the sauce to cover from both sides and heat for 30 seconds. Remove from stove and cool.

- Grease a wide glass baking dish (8x8x2 in.) or you can also assemble the pudding in individual dishes and bake, but I find an enormous dish of pudding simpler to prepare.

- Take 1/3 of the roasted bread cubes and spread them on the base of the dish.

- Top the bread cubes with 1/2 of the banana slices and sauce.

- Pour 1/3 of the custard on top to cover the bread and bananas.

- Take 1/3 of the bread cubes and spread them on top of the custard and repeat with a layer of the rest of the banana slices and syrup and 1/3 of the custard.

- Spread the remainder of the bread cubes on top and cover with the leftover custard.

- Cover with foil and cook the dish in a water bath for about 30 minutes at 350F. (To make the water bath, fill a huge, deep metal baking pan 1/2 way with water.)

- Take away the foil and heat for another 45 minutes until the pudding is puffed up and the custard is set.

- Remove and cool for 15 minutes before serving.




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