Custard Melon Bowls (Post 2)

Hello!

It's summer time... Fruits look delicious in the markets but when we get them home no one is ready to eat! They stay there looking at us with dry and sad faces. So this week let's prepare a well known dessert in a different way- The yummy Custard Melon bowls. This is essentially a fruit custard made easy with a few extra fun touches. Great for a weekend snack with a benefit of being healthy and can be preserved for a week.

Preparation time: 10 mins

Cooking time: 30 mins

Energy needed: 5 on a scale of 10

Let's get started!

Fruits: Any fruit you can find! But for this time I used:

Ripe Mango (1) 

Kiwi (1) 

Strawberries (4)

Cherries (6) 

Banana (1) 

Clementines (1) 

Blue berries (10)

Green grapes (5)

Black grapes (5)

Small round Water melon (1)

You can even add star fruits, passion fruits.

Dry fruits:

Raisins (6)

Cashews (5- halved into two)

Other Ingredients:

Ghee/ unsalted butter (1 tsp)

Honey 

Milk (500ml)

Sugar (4tbsp)

Custard powder (3tbsp)

Cupcakes/ whipped cream

Procedure:

• Prepare it:

• Take a bowl and get the milk to luke warm state.

• Take a small bowl, add custard and mix with a little amount of lukewarm milk making sure there are no lumps.

• Add sugar to the same mixture and pour it in the remaining milk and boil it (whole milk is preferred).

• Make it:

• While it is boiling (on a low flame), slice mangoes into small cubes, kiwi into semi circles, remove seeds from cherries, slice strawberries into halves, banana into circles

• Here comes the fun part! Do not cut the water melon in the regular fashion. Carefully draw the knife around the edge of the watermelon and dice and remove the water melon cubes with a spoon such that you won't break the outer cover of the fruit.

• Once you are done, the melon cover should look like an empty bowl

• Check the milk and turn the flame off and cool it in the refrigerator till the hot custard becomes cool (20 minutes should be good)

• Keep the fruits aside, take a small pan, add ghee and as it melts add the dry fruits and let them turn golden. Turn off the flame and let them cool down.

• Remove the custard from the fridge, add all these fruits including melon cubes and dry fruits and mix well.

• Now take the melon bowls (as said in #5) and fill them with this custard (if you think this melon is big for one person, carefully cut the melon to make it a smaller bowl).

• Take the honey bottle and with honey add vertical and horizontal lines on the custard in the bowls

• Decorate it.

• Either take the whipped cream and give the custard your touch! draw a design or write your kid's name/ initial.

• Or take the cup cake and carefully adjust the fruits and place it on them so that it won't drown.

• Serve it! 

• Ask your kids/ loved one's to drink it from the bowl. Whoa! its fun, healthy, snack and no more dehydrated sad fruits in the refrigerators.

Happy eating

Divya.