Vanilla Pudding
Wonderfully tender, fragrant, melt-in-your-mouth — food for the gods! Vanilla pudding is a dessert much like pastry cream. This delicate, jelly-like custard with a creamy taste and a note of vanilla works well as an accompaniment to other dishes. Served on its own, it's a perfect end to any meal.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make vanilla pudding? Gather the ingredients. Use good-quality whole milk — ideally farm milk that's had the cream skimmed off. If buying it, choose a high-fat milk with no vegetable additives. For the flavoring you can use vanillin, vanilla sugar, or real vanilla. The amount will depend on which you choose.
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Step 2:
Pour 400 ml of the milk into a medium saucepan. Set it over the heat and add the sugar, a tiny pinch of salt to balance the flavor, and the vanillin (if using vanillin, add just a few crystals; you can use more vanilla sugar). Stir the contents of the saucepan and bring to a boil over low heat.
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Step 3:
Combine the remaining 100 ml of milk with the cornstarch and stir until smooth. Pour the mixture into the boiling milk in a thin stream. The pudding will start thickening fast. Begin stirring right away so no lumps form and the pudding doesn't stick to the bottom. A silicone spatula is very handy for this. You can turn off the heat, since once it thickens the pudding bubbles hard and "spits."
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Step 4:
Cool the finished vanilla pudding and serve it warm or chilled. Garnish the pudding with fresh berries or slices of soft fruit, cookies, pieces of marmalade, or chocolate. You can also use this pudding as a filling for cakes or pastries. Enjoy!
- For the difference between vanilla, vanillin, vanilla extract, and vanilla sugar, and how to use and substitute them correctly so you don't ruin a dish's flavor, see this article.
- For how to choose the perfect pot for soup, porridge, or pickling, see the article on pots.
- Instead of sugar, you can use a heat-stable sweetener.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Vanillin - 288 kcal/100g
- Cornstarch - 329 kcal/100g
