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A custard apple treat
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Sample these varieties of the popular fruit sitaphal
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The custard apple can be a great nutritious addition to your diet.— Photo: K. Ramesh Babu
CALL IT the "poor man's apple" or just plain custard apple, the sitaphal (in Indian parlance) can be a great nutritious addition to your diet.
However, diabetics and dieters are advised to keep off the fruit due to its heavy sugar content that can add to your weight.
Try out a natural ice cream with it or add it to your custard for pepping up the dish, give it in a mashed form to toddlers or as a whole fruit to children - custard apple's benefits are immeasurable.
Enjoy these simple delights for now.
KULFI
Ingredients
Rabdi (made by reducing 5
litres milk) — 2 ltr.
Sugar — 400 gm.
Custard apple (pula extracted) — 3 kg.
Milkmaid — 1 tin
Kulfi moulds — 16 nos
Method
Dissolve sugar when rabdi is still hot. Let it cool, add custard apple pulp and milkmaid.
Mix well and pour into the kulfi moulds. Freeze till set. Serve chilled.
KHEER
Ingredients
Custard apple (pulp extracted) — 1 kg.
Rice (soaked for 1 hour, and ground to batter consistency) — 300 gm.
Milk — 1.5 ltr.
Sugar — 1.5 kg.
Milkmaid — 1 tin
Method
Boil milk, add rice paste as soon as it boils. Add custard apple puree, milkmaid and sugar.
Adjust the consistency by adding more rice paste (if required). Serve chilled.
LASSI
Custard apple (pulp extracted) — 800 gm.
Thick yoghurt (hang it in a thin cloth, if needed) — 1 ltr.
Sugar to taste
Method
Whisk the yoghurt with custard apple pulp and sugar. Add water if required. Mix well and serve chilled.
DOME SOUFFLE
Ingredients
Custard apple — 4
Banana — 1
Egg whites — 5
Castor sugar — 100 gm.
Icing sugar for sprinkling
Whipped cream — 100 gm.
Gelatine (soaked in 2 tbsp warm water) — 4 tbsp
Method
Extract the custard apple pulp and mix it with banana pulp. Add it to the above. Beat the egg whites until stiff. Add the sugar and gelatine, beat until glossy to make a light meringue.
Fold in the cream and pulp into the meringue. Pour in a mould. Freeze till it sets.
Decorate it with mint sprigs or any other garnish of your choice.
O.P. KHANTWAL
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