Author Notes
This is a variation to a classic Pakistani tapioca pudding which is always made with full cream milk and cardamon. I have given it a slight far-eastern twist with the coconut milk and fried bananas which set of the creaminess of the milk and compliment the tapioca's gooey consistency. —Sumayya Usmani
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Ingredients
- Pudding
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1 1/2 cups
uncooked tapioca, cover in cool water, soak for 30 min-1 hour, stirred with a fork every now and then
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1/2 cup
caster sugar, or to taste
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3/4 cup
of coconut milk
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1
large pinch of saffron
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1 cup
whole milk / almond milk / soya milk
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Water to soak tapioca
- Topping
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1
small to medium banana, sliced and fried in butter
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Handful of flaked almonds, fried in butter
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1-2
knobs of butter to fry the almonds and banana slices
Directions
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Heat the milk in a saucepan over medium to low heat and add the soaked tapioca (water should be absorbed, if not chuck it in too). Cook until glutinous and the grains are soft. Add the saffron
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Now add coconut milk and mix the pudding constantly now allowing it to stick or thicken too much. Add sugar to taste stir and then pour out into glass bowls
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For the topping: Fry the banana pieces and the almond in butter and once ready decorate the pudding.
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Refrigerate for 30 minutes or eat straight away. Keeps for up to 2 days covered in the fridge.
Sumayya is a food writer and cookery teacher who grew up in Pakistan, but has now found home in Glasgow. Sumayya is passionate about sharing the flavours of her homeland with a view to highlight Pakistani cuisine as a distinct one. The author or two cookbooks: Summers Under The Tamarind Tree (Frances Lincoln) and Mountain Berries and Desert Spice (Frances Lincoln, out April 2017), her writing reminisces about food and memories growing up in Pakistan. She writes for many publications, appears on television, and co-presents BBC Kitchen Cafe weekly, on BBC Radio Scotland.
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