Polenta Pudding

Polenta pudding or most commonly known as 'pudding mais' in Mauritius is one of my favourite sweet treat. I had a craving for them and decided to try and make my own version. I was quite happy with the result, so here is the recipe I used.


POLENTA PUDDING RECIPE

Serves: 12 approx

Ingredients:
1/2 cup corn meal (polenta)
1 tbs custard powder
2 1/2 cups + 3 tbs of skim milk
3/4 cup sugar (I used brown sugar)
Dessicated coconut
Raisins, soaked in water for about 10 minutes  (optional)

Method:
1. Rinse corn meal and let sit in cold water for about 20 minutes.
2. Place milk in a saucepan and bring to boil.
3. Mix custard powder and 3 tbs of milk until there is no more lump.
4. Once milk is heat, pour in the custard mixture, drained corn meal and sugar.
5. Whisk until well combined, and continue stir for about 15 minutes on high until the mixture thickens, then for another 10 minutes on low heat.
6. Add your raisins, if using them.

6. Dust your pan with coconut powder. Pour polenta mixture and cover with more coconut powder. Let cooled and place in the fridge before cutting.
Serve and enjoy.

 

 

Custard and polenta pudding

Dessert time. Today I made a polenta and custard pudding. They are really easy to make. For the custard you simply follow the instructions on the packaging itself and for the polenta same procedure. The only exception for the polenta is to use milk instead of water, and add some vanilla essence and sugar per tasting. Done. This polenta pudding reminds me of my home country because this is quite a typical pudding, among so many else. We have semolina pudding, sago or even cassava. Greatly praised because they taste so good. I like the smoothness from the custard and the grainy texture from the polenta. You can top them off with coconut powder if you want to.

Busy day in the kitchen

Yesterday was my brother's birthday. I cooked lot and was so tired after. Did I mentioned that working too much is not good for your health. You should try to rest. Wait, I just questioned myself about brekkie as well. Yeah so because I had to go work early in the day and wake up quite late, and wanted to cook my lunch and this sago dessert. Man I didn't know that sago took that lot of a time to cook. After that I didn't have time to eat my ravishing breakkie and had to make it with milk and weetbix...and I realised that indeed I felt hungry and tired the whole day.

 So I cooked this sago dessert (like I mentioned in an early post, I like doing things on impulse- it works best). It's actually a sort of coconut sago pudding/jelly.

I also cooked my lunch to bring at work. Simple dish: egg omelet with carrots. Try add some thyme leaves, really help to enhance the flavour.

After work I cooked fried noodles for my brother's birthday. A quite easy dish, but quite lengthy in terms of preparation time.

Finally I made a cake, late at night, a hot milk cake. It was my  first time baking a cake, so I wanted to try an easy one. Anyway, the result was quite catastrophic, I don't know what turn bad in the process because the cake was quite compact and thick. It looked decent though:

That bring us to the end of this post. Hope it gives you some idea of what to cook at home.