Recipe: Chunky caramel dessert drink

Kill the heat with chunky caramel dessert drink during summers

Pure indulgence for your sweet-tooth



Method 

For the drink:

•  Bring the milk to a boil in a medium-sized saucepan, along with the green cardamoms and sugar.

•  Once the milk has cooked, add the white bread to the pan and cool it for about three minutes on medium flame. Whisk the mixture thoroughly until it becomes smooth in texture.

•  Beat two large eggs in a bowl and pour them into the milk mixture, stirring continuously. Allow the mixture to cook for another eight minutes before adding the caramel essence to it. Mix it well.

•  Take the saucepan off of heat and add a few drops of pink food colour to the mixture. Stir the colour in completely.

•  Once the mixture has cooled, pour it into a glass and add the peanut crunch on top of it.

•  Allow the glasses to sit in the fridge for at least three hours before serving.

For the peanut crunch:

•  In a frying pan, cook the sugar on low flame until it becomes golden to light brown.

•  Add peanuts to the sugar and mix them together.

•  Pour the mixture in a greased tray and let it cool.

•  Once the temperature decreases a bit, break the crunch into small pieces and set aside for a little while before placing them on the glasses.

Decorate your glass rim with sugary fairy dust

If you’re looking to go glam, liven up your glass presentation by rimming the lip of your serving glass. Although this is most commonly seen as salt on cocktail glasses, the same principle can be used with cocoa, sugar and even dried herbs and chilies. For rich dessert drinks, sugar is probably your best option though. Read on to learn how you can decorate your glasses and impress your guests the next time around.



What you’ll need:

•  Glasses

•  Two saucepans

•  Powder of your choice, in this case, sugar

•  Some liquid like water or citrus juices. If you’re using juice, make sure it compliments the ingredients in the drink. Lime and orange, for example, work great together.

What you’ll do:

•  Add two tablespoons of the liquid in the first saucepan and two tablespoons of the rimming powder in another.

•  Hold the glass with its stem and tip it towards the first saucepan at a 45 degree angle. Dip the rim into the powder and rotate the glass so that the outer edge becomes moist. Make sure to moisten approximately a quarter inch of the glass’s rim.

•  Repeat this process in the second saucepan, coating the outer tip of the glass with powder. Your glass is now ready.

Note: Use a slightly damp napkin or paper towel to tidy the glass up, in case there are any flakes here and there.

Published in The Express Tribune, Ms T, June 21^st, 2015.