If you’re going to eat treats, it stands to good reason that you’d employ delicious tweaks to steer them towards being beneficial to your health, right?
I’m talking anti inflammatory custard. Yes, you heard me!
I created this custard as a twist on my lemony coconut custard recipe, for the Mindd Forum last week and Brenda Janschek who was helping distribute the samples to the 300 attendees said “no word of a lie I’ve never seen that many tongues out in all my life. Licking every last bit from the cups, they were. Asking for – no grabbing – seconds, one lady took 4 more little cups… she didn’t even ask!”
My amazing friends helping me get 300 samples prepped for the Mindd forum demo.
We laughed. Oh dear. The expectation is now probably quite high. I think it’s rather luscious and now that it’s been raised high on a pedestal, I hope you do too!
This is what 5 litres of custard ready for 300 samples looks like!
Enjoy and tag me on instagram when you make it to give me the verdict @lowtoxlife
Real Food. Happy Bodies.
Cinnamon Turmeric Custard Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 eggs - (3 yolks, 3 whole eggs) Add 1 whole egg for a thicker ‘glug glug’ custard.
- 1-2 pods vanilla pods , split and scraped (or 1 heaped teaspoon vanilla bean powder)
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon*
- 1 cm knob fresh turmeric, finely grated into the custard ingredients once all incorporated. I use a microplane. you can use a teaspoon of dried/ground turmeric if that's easier
- 80 g rice malt syrup, honey, maple syrup (rice malt syrup for fructose free) or rapadura/coconut sugar
- 2 cans of 400 ml coconut cream (you can do 1 cream / 1 milk if you want something less rich)
- 2 tablespoons tapioca flour you could use organic cornflour or arrowroot flour as an alternative - watch out the arrowroot/tapioca flours don't contain sulphites! I use Bob's Red Mill brand pr from my bulk foods store as neither of those do. If you can’t have starch, you could add 2/3 flat tablespoon ground gelatin powder to slightly thicken the custard as it cools if you like a thick texture.
Instructions
- Thermomix or My Cook Premium: Pop all in your thermomix and cook for 8 minutes 30 seconds, speed 4, 80C. Once done, blend for 4 seconds on speed 6 and pour out into a mixing bowl straight away to prevent furthur cooking once it's done.
Traditional Method
- Heat coconut cream, spices and vanilla in saucepan until just boiled.
- While that’s heating up, whisk your yolks and whole eggs, tapioca & chosen sweetener together until well combined. (If you’re using gelatin not tapioca to thicken upon cooling, don’t whisk in until custard is done and hot.)
- Once your milk/spices are hot enough to see a little bubbling around the sides of the pan, you're ready to incorporate it with the eggs/tapioca/sugar.
- Very little by little, pour your hot coconut cream mixture into the egg/sugar bowl. Imperative to whisk as you go, to avoid cooking the eggs in this step. Pour slowly while stirring (it's great to have a helper for this step) until it's all combined in the mixing bowl.
- Now, pour the whole mixture back into the saucepan on medium heat and stir continuously until you feel it thicken - I use a wooden spoon as it's super easy to see it coating the back of the spoon once it starts to thicken. Once it has thickened (this transformation happens in about 30 seconds when it's time) it's done.
- Pour into a clean mixing bowl and let it cool in the fridge, or serve warm with a pudding or as a coconut vanilla ‘soup’ with strawberries for an indulgent treat your family will kiss your feet over!
- That’s it! It’s delicious as is or for some crunchy bits use my crunchy, nutty, recipe. – so easy to make!
Comments 23
This looks so good Alexx! Love the photo of you cute helper too 🙂
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Thanks Kirri – she’s cute, hey? x
sounds beautiful Alexx. Will have to give it a try. Haven’t had any luck with custards before- will see how I go
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Enjoy! This is fool proof x
Tongues everywhere, moans and groans, eyes rolling into back of heads. One could say this recipe was truly orgasmic!! Thanks for sharing. x
I love things with turmeric in them – Green Kitchen Stories have some amazing turmeric breakfast muffins and smoothies with it in. What would be the equivalent amount of ground turmeric – I can’t always get fresh?
i LOVED it at the Mindd conference. Just made it now – delicious, thanks so much
This looks delicious, do you have to put rice malt, maple, honey etc in, I have candida issues.
This looks delish Alexx, is on my cooking list for tonight! Thanks
This looks great! Can’t wait to try. And I agree with Kirri too – cute helper!
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Alexx – how do you reckon this would go in an ice cream maker once cooled…?
Looks lovely. Is it possible to make this without eggs? My son is allergic. Thank you
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To make it without eggs, just add a tbsp gelatin and set it thick that way once cooled 🙂
Thank you!
Looks delicious! Can you make it with ground turmeric instead? How much would you need?
sure could. Just half a tsp would do it! Very potent stuff x
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Alexx I can’t leave the house atm cos of shingles (so gross) and I had no tapioca, arrowroot or gelantine. Sooo, I subbed in agar afar. 1 tsp in a half batch, worked pretty good!! 🙂
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Oh Katy so sorry to hear you’ve got Shingles! Thanks for the sub mention. Great for vegan / vegos too! Get well soon x
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I have just made your chocolate fondant recipe and frozen to be super prepared for my husbands birthday dinner. Do I have to make this custard fresh on the day or could I store for a day and reheat?
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Fine to make the day or morning before, absolutely – so sorry I missed this the other day x