Natillas (Spanish custard) - with photo

[Katya]

Name of Recipe: Natillas

Number of People: 4 - 6

Ingredients:

3 large eggs
600g full-fat milk
130 g sugar
Peeled rind of 1 lemon (without white bits) - large pieces are ok
1 tsp vanilla essence
 
50 g  cointreau (optional)

Preparation:

Use butterfly

- Put eggs and milk into   and mix for 10 seconds, speed 3

- Add sugar, vanilla essence and lemon rind and cook for 7 minutes at 90 speed 1¹/₂

- Add cointreau if using and mix for another 2 minutes, 90 speed 1¹/₂ (you should cook for these 2 extra minutes even if you are not using cointreau)

- Strain into individual bowls (to remove lemon rind) or into one large bowl and leave to cool.

Tips/Hints:

This is a very refreshing dessert.   You can make it with 6 egg yolks rather than 3 eggs in which case you don't need to mix the egg yolks and milk separately at the beginning - just bung everything into the bowl.    I have not tried it this way.

I had originally sprinkled on cinnamon at the end, as in the photo but now think it tastes better without it

Adapted from various recipes in Spanish found on the web!

[trudy]

Thanks for the recipe Katya.  Tomorrow is going to be 39C so your custard sounds a nice change from icecream!!!!!!

[Katya]

Hope it works ok for you - I should have said it is meant to be quite runny.... but if it seems too runny for you, you can cook for another minute or so

[cookie1]

Thanks. Another yummy one to try. Perhaps with some lovely stewed fruit.