Ingredients
- 250 grm. Dried Apricot
- 2 cups water
- 3 tbs. sugar
- ½ liter milk
- 2 tbs. sugar for custard
- 2 tbs. custard powderFresh cream
Instructions
- Presoak the apricot preferably overnight.
- Remove the pits and take out the almond from inside the pit and keep aside.
- In a pot boil the apricot with 2 cups of water.
- Add the 3 TBS of sugar to this water.
- When the quantity of the water is reduced to 1-cup remove from heat.
- Cool and grind to a paste that is neither too thick nor too fine.
- Add the almonds that were removed from the pits to this pulp mixture.
- In another pot prepare the custard either according to instructions on the custard powder packet or according to the following.
- Take ½ liter of milk. Bring to the boil.
- Add the 2 TBS of sugar.
- Meanwhile mix the 2 TBS of custard powder with a few TBS of milk and add to the boiling milk stirring constantly otherwise it will coagulate.
- Cook for a few minutes till it thickens slightly.
- Remove from heat and cool.
- Now in a dish you can do either one of the following
- 1. Add the custard then top off with a layer of the apricot pulp and then with a layer of fresh cream. OR
- 2. Add a layer of custard then a layer of apricot one on top of the other.
- Then add a final layer of fresh cream.Serve chilled.
Serving: 2-3 persons