This delicious fruit custard recipe is another gem from K. Athamma who invariably makes it for dessert at all our family get-togethers. It may seem easy to just chop up some fruits, make a salad with it, and add some custard sauce to it but she has a definitive process she follows to make this fruit custard recipe. This fruit salad uses an eggless custard recipe made using vanilla custard powder and while you can choose pretty much whatever fruits you want to make the fruit salad, there are a few that she highly recommends – mostly tropical fruits that are available easily in India. I have always noticed that Athamma’s fruit salad has an underlying flavour of not just the fruits but something else that’s sweet and cooked. So when I called her to ask how she makes her fruit custard, I realised there is more to this recipe than I imagined. She cooks dates and pineapple in some sugar syrup before adding it to the salad giving the entire fruit salad a very lovely flavour. I strongly recommend you to try this same process and be amazed. I have used a mix of fruits which I could find easily at the time but please note that if you omit certain ingredients, the fruit custard will taste less than great and we all know no one wants to eat a fruit salad with custard sauce that tastes anything but great! Other Easy Dessert Recipes: Apple Crumble with Custard Sauce China Grass Pudding Banana Hazelnut Pudding Vanilla Panna Cotta with Blueberry Coulis Step by Step Pictures to Make Fruit Custard Recipe: To Make the Custard Sauce Mix the custard powder with 1/4 cup milk and whisk until smooth Bring the milk and sugar to boil Add the custard mix slowly to the boiling milk Keep stirring until the custard starts to thicken. This will take about 5-7 mins Remove, transfer to a bowl, cool completely, and refrigerate To Make the Fruit Salad Round up your fruits Make a slightly thick syrup with water and sugar Add finely chopped pineapple and dates to this syrup Mix well, cool completely, and refrigerate An hour before serving, chop the rest of the fruits and add to the pineapple-date mixture Mix well and refrigerate until serving time To Serve Add required amount of the fruit salad to a bowl. Top off with desired amount of custard. Serve chilled. Notes: – Add and subtract fruits according to your preference but I highly recommend the banana, cherries, and cashew nuts – If you prefer to make the custard sauce thicker, add more custard powder. We prefer a light, more watery custard with more focus on the fruits – Here’s a custard sauce using eggs if you want to make custard sauce without custard powder For fruit custard recipe in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu etc please use the Google translate button in the sidebar
