I have given up forking out 100 plus dollars on cool recipe books and bought into recipes through hearsay, magazine and tellie which I can splice and merge with my idea of cooking (cheap, cheap, cheap). Here goes a creme brulee one that I picked up from the Listener.
This recipe is SO cheap, quick and easy it's out there for impressing people. It's got me hooked. Great for a Malibu theme dinner party or excuse to get the Hawain shirts back on during winter!
1 can of coconut milk
2 tbsp of palm sugar (but caster sugar will do)
pinch of salt
4 egg yolks
Banana, tinned pineapple pieces or anything tropical that is on special for garnish
4 oven proof tea cups or ramekins
roasting dish
Method
Pour coconut milk into saucepan and combine with salt and sugar. Then warm up the mixture on the stove and set to the side. Whisk well your egg yolks in a separate bowl. Pour the warm coconut milk bit by bit into the yolks whisking all the while. Once everything is combined pour the mixture into the tea cups or ramekins.
Turn on the oven to 180 degrees, fill a roasting dish with boiling water and place the dessert into the water bath for approx 40-60 min. ( Watch a TV show)
Over a saucepan melt the palm sugar (caster) in a splash of water. Garnish the puddings with seasonal tropical fruit or canned tropical fruit.
If you have a blow torch, sprinkle some sugar on the dessert and heat with the torch but it's not necessary.
This dessert is best made, like Lasagna, the night before.
