Fruit Salad with Custard Powder

Mixed Fruit Salad is one of the most popular desserts in the Indian subcontinent. It is a popular summer dessert. Ingredients are simple. All you need is Milk, Custard powder, Sugar, Vanilla, Mixed fruits and Nuts. A scoop of vanilla ice cream added and it’s even yummier!

We use custard powder, to make an easy custard. Birds Custard is the favourite and original instant custard powder that is used. Whenever I have lits of fruits in the fridge, I always tend to mix some up to make Fruit Salad.

Everyone has their own preferred combination of fruits. And everyone has fruits that they would prefer to omit. Here, I share the way my family likes it.

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Fruit Salad with Custard Powder

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Recipe Name: Fruit Salad with Custard Powder

Recipe Type: Dessert

Author: Shana c/o Recipes ‘R’ Simple

Prep time: 10 min

Cook time 5 min

Total time: 15 min

Yield: ( 8 servings )

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What is Custard powder?

Custard powder is an egg-free Instant powder that when mixed with milk and heated, thickens to form a custard-like sauce.

How is real Custard made?

Milk and Cream is heated to just below boiling. Egg yolks, sugar, cornflour and vanilla is mixed together separately. The hot milk mixture is poured gradually into this egg-yolk mix, with constant whisking. Then you pour it back into the saucepan and heat gently, stirring – just till thickened. It can be served hot or cold.

How to make Fruit Salad with- Recipe at a glance:

Prepare the easy custard using milk, custard powder, sugar and vanilla extract.
Chill this prepared custard.
Chop up fruits to a similar size.
Add the custard to the fruits and mix well. Chill till time to serve.
Add chopped raw cashew nuts and icecream if you like.

Ingredients:

3 Tbsp Custard powder
3-4 Tbsp Sugar
3 cups Milk “(1 cup +240 mls)
2 tsp Vanilla extract
Mixed Fruits (The fruits used in this recipe are Apple(1 -2 sweet apple) , Banana (1) , Strawberry(4-5), Mango (1 cup, diced), Seedless Grapes (1/2 cup), 1 small mandarin orange, Golden Kiwi(1-2) )

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Key Ingredients: Mixed Fresh Fruits, Milk, Custard powder, Sugar, Vanilla, Cashew nuts.