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.
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
Fruit Custard Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 apple
- 1 orange
- 1 cup of cubed ripe pineapple
- 5-6 dates
- 1/2 cup of cubed ripe mangoes (if in season)
- 1 small banana
- 1/4 cup of glazed cherries
- 1/4 cup of chopped cashew nuts
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tbsp sugar
- For Custard Sauce:
- 2 cups of milk
- 3 tbsp of vanilla custard powder
- 3 tbsp of sugar
Instructions
- Add the custard powder to 1/4 cup milk, mix well, and set aside.
- Bring the rest of the milk to boil and add sugar.
- Slowly add the custard mixture and continue to cook until thick - about 5-7 mins.
- Remove from fire, cool completely, and refrigerate.
- Cook the 1/4 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.
- Remove from heat and set aside.
- Chop the pineapple into small cubes and shred the dates into small pieces.
- Add these to the hot syrup, mix well, cool completely, and refrigerate.
- 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.
- Mix well and refrigerate until you need to serve.
- To serve: add 1/2 cup of the fruit salad to a bowl and top off with 1/2 cup chilled custard sauce.
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
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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!
I will never say no to this custard any day.
The sugar syrup part is totally new and interesting too. Pretty clicks
wow yummy loved those cute clicks…
yummilicious clicks dear…. colorful dessert…
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.
looks great nags
Love this all time…
My all time favorite dessert..cooking pineapple and dates is something new for me..i use to have this often with some chopped bananas.
very tempting and mouth watering….
Love that addition of sugar syrup with pineapple and dates..new to me..yumm