This is an authentic healthy and nutritious Kerala dessert. It is an egg-less pudding made with tender coconut pulp and coconut water to make it a perfectly light and yummy dessert. The tender coconut gives the pudding a velvety consistency. Every spoonful is loaded with the sweet taste of tender coconut.
Ingredients
1. Milk – 3 cups
2. Condensed milk – 1 tin (400 gm)
3. China grass – 10 gm (If not available, then use 3 Tbsp gelatin)
4. Tender coconut pulp – 1 cup
5. Tender coconut water – 1 cup
6. Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
7. Stewed pineapple or sponge cake (optional)
Preparation
1. Heat the coconut water lightly and soak china grass in it for 15 minutes.
2. Scoop out the pulp from tender coconut and keep aside.
3. Heat milk with sugar (No need to boil) and add condensed milk. Mix well and remove from fire.
4. Melt the china grass over hot water and add to the milk mixture. Add vanilla essence and mix well and cool.
5. Add chopped creamy tender coconut, mix well and keep aside.
6. For stewed pineapple – Cook one chopped pineapple with ½ cup sugar till it dries up. This can be used as the bottom layer of your pudding.
7. Sponge cake soaked in ½ cup of sugar syrup can also be used as bottom layer.
8. In a serving bowl layer the bottom with either stewed pineapple or sponge cake. Pour the pudding over it gently. Garnish with either caramel or tender coconut pieces or biscuit crumbs etc. Cover and refrigerate.
Suggestion
It can be also be served without any layer at the bottom of bowl.
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