Homemade Custard

Hello everyone! Today I've been cooking this traditional recipe for you. I can remember my granny cooking this dessert in her kitchen, that nice smell filled the house. She always served this custard topped with a biscuit, and the combination of that flavour, together with the custard was really good. I still do the same when I cook this for my son and his friends. For grownups I usually sprinkle a little ground cinnamon on top. This dessert is very easy to cook and a favourite for any meal with family or friends.

Ingredients:

(Serves 6)

1 l. milk
50 g. corn flour
130 g sugar
5 eggs (yolks only)
1 lemon zest
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
ground cinnamon

Difficulty and cooking time:

Easy
30 minutes

Method:

Put 750 ml of the milk in a large saucepan together with the lemon zest and the vanilla extract and heat until it just come to the boil.

Leave to cook and remove the lemon zest.

In the meantime put the sugar and the yolks in a bowl and mix thoroughly.

Whisk well until you get an even mixture like this.

Separate 250 ml of the milk in a glass, add 50 g of corn flour and mix well using a spoon.

Put this mixture together with the beaten yolks and the sugar.

Stir well for a couple of minutes.

Pour the resulting mixture over the milk and stir thoroughly using a wooden spoon.

Stir over a low heat until the mixture is thick enough, this would take about 8 minutes.

Drain the custard into individual bowls, sprinkle with cinnamon and leave to cool.

Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes and this delicious homemade custard will be ready to serve.

I think you're going to love this recipe.
Hopefully see you soon,

María