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Fruit Custard Recipe, Fruit Salad with Custard Sauce

February 28, 2016 30 Comments

Fruit custard recipe, learn how to make this super easy dessert recipe that’s chilled custard sauce served with a fruit salad that has a secret ingredient – dates.

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

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.

Fruit Custard Recipe, Fruit Salad with Custard Sauce

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!

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Vanilla Panna Cotta with Blueberry Coulis

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Fruit Custard Recipe
 
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Prep time
20 mins
Cook time
5 mins
Total time
25 mins
 
Fruit Custard Recipe Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 5 minutes Serves 6 Recipe Source: Kumari Athamma
Author: nags
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 6
Ingredients
  • 1 apple
  • 1 orange
  • 1 cup of cubed, ripe pineapple
  • 5-6 dates
  • ½ cup of cubed, ripe mangoes (if in season)
  • 1 small banana
  • ¼ cup of glazed cherries
  • ¼ cup of chopped cashew nuts
  • ¼ cup water
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • For Custard Sauce:
  • 2 cups of milk
  • 3 tbsp of vanilla custard powder
  • 3 tbsp of sugar
Instructions
  1. Add the custard powder to ¼ cup milk, mix well, and set aside.
  2. Bring the rest of the milk to boil and add sugar.
  3. Slowly add the custard mixture and continue to cook until thick - about 5-7 mins.
  4. Remove from fire, cool completely, and refrigerate.
  5. Cook the ¼ cup water + 2 tbsp sugar for about 3-4 mins until the syrup thickens a bit. It doesn't need to be one-string, etc.
  6. Remove from heat and set aside.
  7. Chop the pineapple into small cubes and shred the dates into small pieces.
  8. Add these to the hot syrup, mix well, cool completely, and refrigerate.
  9. An hour before you need to serve the fruit custard, cut the other fruits into small pieces, cube the cherries, chop the nuts and add to the pineapple-date mixture.
  10. Mix well and refrigerate until you need to serve.
  11. To serve: add ½ cup of the fruit salad to a bowl and top off with ½ cup chilled custard sauce.
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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

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

Bring the milk and sugar to boil

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

Add the custard mix slowly to the boiling milk

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

Keep stirring until the custard starts to thicken. This will take about 5-7 mins

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

Remove, transfer to a bowl, cool completely, and refrigerate

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

To Make the Fruit Salad

Round up your fruits

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

Make a slightly thick syrup with water and sugar

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

 

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

Add finely chopped pineapple and dates to this syrup

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

Mix well, cool completely, and refrigerate

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

An hour before serving, chop the rest of the fruits and add to the pineapple-date mixture

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

Mix well and refrigerate until serving time

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

To Serve

Add required amount of the fruit salad to a bowl. Top off with desired amount of custard. Serve chilled.

Fruit Custard Recipe-Fruit Salad Recipe with Custard Sauce

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

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By nags Filed Under: Eggless Desserts, Salads, Sweets Puddings Desserts

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Comments

  1. Riba

    February 1, 2017 at 2:08 am

    Hi,
    I would like to know the measurements for 1cup.

    Reply
    • nags

      February 7, 2017 at 7:02 pm

      my cups are 240 ml

      Reply
  2. Shirl

    February 29, 2016 at 12:27 am

    Thank you for the lovely recipe!

    Reply
    • nags

      February 29, 2016 at 8:07 am

      glad you like it! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Maddirala

    January 15, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    hi… too good how did u learn so many recipe.. really i bow to the passion you built. regularly i am following the blog. even y week end one special…try chestunna. thank you

    Reply
  4. sija

    April 10, 2013 at 5:51 am

    Hi.. I was waiting for a wonderful recipe of Fruit Salad ..Thank you so much ..Tried this yesterday and was simply SUPERB..

    Reply
  5. Anonymous

    April 7, 2013 at 11:20 am

    Hello Nags
    Thank u so much for all the keralite recipes
    if you could please share Vishu sadya too, it will be a great help (i am married to a keralite and have no idea what to cook on vishu )
    thanks

    Reply
  6. shanaz rafiq

    March 5, 2013 at 7:20 am

    I liked your idea of dates ,pineapple in sugar syrup. Shall definitly give it a try. I like all your dishes especially the way they are phtographed…Good job and looking forward for more.

    Reply
  7. sanjana reddy

    March 1, 2013 at 8:51 am

    good

    Reply
  8. Rita Bose

    February 28, 2013 at 1:17 am

    Looks delicious,cool and healthy,Nags!

    Reply
  9. Sona S

    February 27, 2013 at 4:04 am

    yummy, delicious and tempting!

    Reply
  10. Janani

    February 26, 2013 at 8:39 pm

    Love;y recipe Naga nice tips on the syrup must try it.

    Reply
  11. dassana

    February 26, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    loved your athamma's recipe and the pineapple dates syrup is a great twist in the recipe.

    Reply
  12. suhaina aji

    February 26, 2013 at 7:38 am

    wow..that looks yumm Nags..love it any time of the day.

    Reply
  13. gitanjali kannamma

    February 26, 2013 at 5:16 am

    delicious…tempting …..

    Reply
  14. APARNARAJESHKUMAR

    February 26, 2013 at 3:48 am

    mouth watering ! amaZing pictures

    Reply
  15. RAKS KITCHEN

    February 26, 2013 at 3:15 am

    Looks really good. Loved the tray too. I too love my custard a bit thin than usual 🙂

    Reply
  16. divya

    February 25, 2013 at 4:08 pm

    look absolutely tempting !! Gorgeous

    Reply
  17. Jayanthi

    February 25, 2013 at 3:10 pm

    I have heard that mixing pineapple and custard together will make it bitter. Is this tr

    Reply
    • Nagalakshmi V

      February 27, 2013 at 4:25 am

      it's to prevent that bitterness we do the sugar syrup treatment

      Reply
  18. Anni

    February 25, 2013 at 2:54 pm

    That looks so delicious and pretty. And I love it that fruit makes up the majority of the recipe. 🙂 It sounds like an explosion-of-flavor kind of custard!

    Reply
  19. Jeyashrisuresh

    February 25, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    I will never say no to this custard any day.
    The sugar syrup part is totally new and interesting too. Pretty clicks

    Reply
  20. Premalatha Aravindhan

    February 25, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    wow yummy loved those cute clicks…

    Reply
  21. WeR SAHM

    February 25, 2013 at 11:55 am

    yummilicious clicks dear…. colorful dessert…

    Reply
  22. Chella KS Nathan

    February 25, 2013 at 11:24 am

    This brings back all the memories for me 🙂 my amma used to make it when i was small. The green banana was brought solely for this reason.

    Reply
  23. Veena Theagarajan

    February 25, 2013 at 10:51 am

    looks great nags

    Reply
  24. Sangeetha Nambi

    February 25, 2013 at 10:05 am

    Love this all time…

    Reply
  25. Indu Vipin

    February 25, 2013 at 9:57 am

    My all time favorite dessert..cooking pineapple and dates is something new for me..i use to have this often with some chopped bananas.

    Reply
  26. Arthy Suman

    February 25, 2013 at 9:35 am

    very tempting and mouth watering….

    Reply
  27. sowmya(creative saga)

    February 25, 2013 at 10:03 am

    Love that addition of sugar syrup with pineapple and dates..new to me..yumm

    Reply

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