Janmashtami delight - creamy fruit custard

Happy janmashtami and welcome to our kitchen.
Today is janmashtami..everyone is celebrating lord Krishna birthday.  Many of us goes on fast on the eve of lord Krishna birthday....janmastami...Make this awesome fruity creamy delight on your fast.
Everyone know how to make friut custard because this is very well known by us...fruit with custard make this delight very healthy and delicious too.
Fruit custard is one those popular desserts
that people of all age group love to relish it.
This very awesome treat is generally served as a dessert. But you can serve during your fast and strengthen yourself with some  vitamins nourishment in your fasting.
I have make some variation ...i use fream cream and dry fruits to enhance the taste of this yummy delight. You can add lots of seasonal fruits and jelly of jam according to your taste.

Let's quickly gone through my way of making creamy fruit custard.

Creamy fruit custard-

Preparation time : 25- 30 minutes
Cooking time : 15-20 minutes
Serve 4-6

Ingredients -
Bananas 4 peeled and roughly chopped
Pears 1 medium finely chopped
Apple 1 medium finely chopped
Mango 1 medium peeled and roughly chopped
Grapes 150 grams cut in half each pearls
Pomegranate pearls 1/2 cup
Pistachios 2tbsp (blanched and finely chopped)
Almonds 2 tbsp (blanced and finely chopped)
Raisin 2 tbsp
Cashew nuts 2tbsp finely chopped
Custard powder 5-6 table spoons
Milk 1/2 llitre
Sugar 20 teaspoons or according to your taste
Fresh cream 1 cup
Some pistachios ( pista) ,almonds, cashew nuts, raisin and pomegranate pearls for garnishing


Method -

* Take custard powder in a bowl Add 1/4 cup of milk (not warm or lukewarm). Prefer cold milk or in with normal temperature. Mix well.
Make sure that there is no lump in your mixture.
Keep aside it.

* Heat non stick heavy bottom pan.
pour  gently rest of milk in a pan . Let it bring to boil. Simmer the heat .
Add gently and  very slowly custard milk mixture to the milk while stirring continuously.
(Stirring is must to avoid in making lumps in  milkly custard batter.)
(If you are not aware and not stir well while pouring/ adding custard slurry to the milk there shall be chance to make lumps in your milk custard mixture.

So, be sure the heat is slow and you are stirring the mixture continuously.

*Cook on slow heat for atleast 5 minutes or until mixtures is thicken while stirring continuously.
*Add sugar and cook for a while or till sugar melt.
Switch off the heat.

(Make sure that custard mixture is not  very thin or nor very thick.(If it's thicken after cooled add milk accordingly.)

*Beat with spoon or  hand beater till smooth.
*Let it cool down completely while stir occasionally.
*once it cooled add chopped fruits and dry fruits and fresh cream to the custard mixture. Mix well.
*chilled in a refrigerator for an hour.
*Garnish with some fry fruits and pomegranate pearls .serve chilled.

Hope you all like my creamy healthier way of making fruit custard.
Make this fruity creamy
Yummy awesome dessert delight on your vrat relish yourself with sweet delight.
Enjoy janmashtami with blessing of lord Krishna.

Again Happy janmashtami.
We shall very soon with some more exiting and easy recipes.. till then bye.

Asha
Archana

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Fruit delight - Aam ras

Aam ras

Hi ,
Everyone..
Rainy season comes with showers of water with lots of fruity delights.
When summer shower with pleasnt water we feel craving of some sweet chilled delight in our meal.
Today, I am sharing with all of you a famous gujrati sweet delight...aam ras.
This is one of my favourite dish.
As sound by its name aam ras mean mango juice.
Aam ras is very popular in gujrat and Maharashtra.
They generally use alphanso mangoes to make this very special dessert.
But I use langda malda to make my sweet mango dessert.
Just make sure that mango shouldn't be very fibrous. It should be pulpy ,fleshy and fully ripen.
It is very easy to make and no fire recipe.It takes only couple of minutes to make it.

Before going to share the recipe ,I just want to say that traditionally it is serve with pooris.
But aam ras can also  be used as a dessert or sweet dish after meal.
Which way suit you ..you can follow..in any time this will be super super awesome and make your time delicious.

Here ,I am going to share with all of you a quick no fire very simple recipe of awesome aam ras.

Preparation time -15-20 minutes
Cooking time - 0 minutes
Makes 1 large bowl

Ingredients -
2 large ripen mangoes ( prefer  fleshy mangoes like langda malda or alphanso variety of mango)
1 pinch of saffron strands (thread of kesar)(soaked in 2 tbsp of  lukewarm water )
1pinch of saffron strand for garnishing
1 tbsp of chopped pistachios for garnishing
A pinch of cardamom powder
1/2 cup of powdered sugar or according to the sweetness of mangoes
1/4 cup of milk
1 cup of fresh cream (prefer low fat cream )

Method -

* Rinse or wash the mangoes with water.
Then after peel gently and cut into in small cubes.
*Blend the mangoes cubes in a blender to smooth puree along with sugar , cardamom powder and 1/4 cup of milk or according to te thickness of puree.(the puree should be nor  very thick or not very thin.Take it in a bowl .
*Add fresh cream and 1 pinch of saffron strand. Stir well.
* pour in a serving bowl  and garnish with saffron strands and chopped pistachios. Chill in the refrigerator for an hour.

* Awesome aam ras is ready to eat.
Serve with pooris/ chapati or have as a dessert after meal.

One should must try this one...awesome delicious delight is waiting for you.
Do enjoy this  chilled sweet bites with your near and dear ones.

That's all for the day.
We shall come back with some more sweet delight.
Till then..
Bye.
Take care..
 We are signing off.
Asha
Archana

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