Homemade - Tapioca Custard

Date: May 12, 2012

Ingredients:
1/4 cup Small Pearl Tapioca (do not use instant tapioca)
1 1/2 cups Whole Milk
1/8 teaspoon Salt
1 Egg
1/8 cup Sugar
1/4 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Some mint leaves

To create this wonderful dessert...

1. Heat tapioca, milk, and salt in a pan
2. Stir until boiling and simmer 5 minutes at the lowest possible heat and add sugar
3. Separate the egg yolk from the egg white and mix the tapioca very slowly into the egg yolk
4. Beat the egg whites until it peaks and fold in the egg whites into the tapioca mixture
5. Allow mixture to simmer while stirring constantly until the mixture becomes thick and pudding-like
6. Cool fir 15 minutes and then add the vanilla extract
7. Decorate with mint leaves (or however you want)

I served mine cold :) 

Tapioca Custard

Taipoca Custard

The final product was quite satisfactorily creamy without being too unhealthy. For those of you who like the richness of dairy or the pudding/custardy texture, this is an extremely easy but yummy dessert to make.

Recipe adapted from
http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/tapioca_pudding/