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Tapioca Pudding
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Tapioca Pudding

Tapioca pearls soaked and cooked in hot milk with sugar until translucent, and thickened with eggs added gradually. Chilled in bowls. Here based on the recipe itself, with no verified source.

⏱ 3 hr 52 min

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Soak the tapioca in the water for 30 minutes and drain.
    BowlColander
  2. 2
    Heat the milk in a medium saucepan over low heat for 5 minutes, without boiling.
    StoveSmall saucepan
  3. 3
    Add the tapioca, sugar, salt and black pepper and cook for 12–15 minutes over low heat, stirring often, until the pearls are translucent.
    Stove
  4. 4
    Beat the eggs in a bowl, add two tablespoons of the hot mixture and stir. Return to the pot.
    BowlWhisk
  5. 5
    Cook another 2 minutes, stirring, without boiling, until the pudding thickens.
    Stove
  6. 6
    Divide among bowls, let cool and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
    Refrigerator
241calories
7 gprotein
39 gcarbs
6 gfat
● protein 12%● carbs 66%● fat 22%

Per serving (243 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (6) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Refrigerator · Also works: Freezer (Chills faster; don't let it freeze) · Ice bath (Ice bath)
  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
  • Colander · Also works: Lid (a lid held slightly open over the sink, you lose a little) · Slotted spoon (for small amounts)
  • Whisk · Also works: Hand mixer (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Fork (Beat with a fork, less air)

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⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Star anise · Vanilla · Cinnamon on top
  • Soaking time (minutes): 30
  • Milk heating time (minutes): 5
  • Cooking time (minutes): 12–15
  • Chilling time: at least 3 hours

🔗 Used in

Baklava

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