Ginger Almond Egg Custard
Serves 4
3 large eggs
3 tbsp sugar
1.5 cups milk (2% in my case)
4 tsp ginger juice*
1 tsp almond extract
Special equipment:
Grater
Strainer/fine sieve (tea strainer works well if its fine enough)
Steamer**
*Ginger juice - grate a fresh piece of ginger over a bowl. Squeeze the ginger pulp to separate the juice from the ginger solids. Discard solids. For 4 teaspoons I had to grate about 1.5 inches.
**I'm a bad Chinese person - I don't own a steamer or the little metal trivet that most families own! So I had to ninja a steamer using:
Large pot with lid
Metal colander
Aluminum foil
If your colander has feet and fits at the bottom of the pot, you can fill water just to the bottom of the colander. Mine had handles, so it actually hung from the top of the pot and I had to seal the open edges with aluminum
foil. The key to steaming is to gently heat the food using the pressure and moisture. The food should not touch the boiling water and the pot must trap all the steam.
- Set up your steamer. Fill with several cups of water and set to boil. When it boils, reduce heat to medium.
- In a mixing bowl, preferably with a spout, whip the eggs with a whisk.
- Whisk in the sugar a little at a time until dissolved.
- Whisk in the milk and almond extract.
- Add in the ginger juice and stir slowly. Don't whisk.
- Pour the mixture through the strainer to remove ginger pulp, bubbles, and egg strands. It should fill four ramekins.
- Place the four ramekins in the steamer. Steam on medium heat for five minutes.
- The custard is set when jiggly but not liquidy. It will look exactly the same so you'll want to test with the back of a spoon. Enjoy warm. Okay as cold.
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