Vanilla Natilla Food

NATILLAS DE LECHE (SPANISH CUSTARD)

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Pour 5 cups of milk into a large saucepan. Add lemon peel and cinnamon stick and warm the milk, uncovered, over medium heat, until just before it boils. Remove from heat and allow to sit for 10 minutes.
• In a small bowl, whisk remaining 1 cup milk with the cornstarch.
• Place egg yolks in a large mixing bowl. Add the sugar and beat with an electric mixer until it is frothy.
• Add the milk-cornstarch mixture and continue to beat with mixer until thoroughly mixed. Set aside.
• Remove the lemon peel and cinnamon stick from the warm milk, using a slotted spoon.
• Return the pot to the stove on medium heat. After milk is hot, but not boiling, add the vanilla extract .
• Slowly pour egg yolk mixture into the warming milk, while beating with electric mixer on low speed.
• Using a wooden spoon, stir continuously over medium heat, so the milk does not stick. Stir until mixture thickens.
• Ladle thickened mixture through a fine mesh sieve placed over a large bowl, in order to eliminate any lumps.
• Pour strained natillas mixture evenly into 6 small bowls, ramekins, or cups. Allow to cool to room temperature on the counter, then cover ramekins with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Once chilled, garnish with cinnamon before serving.

NATILLA

Steps:

• 1. Simmer 3 cups milk with ½ cup sugar, lemon zest, and cinnamon stick.
• 2. Meanwhile whisk yolks with ½ cup sugar.
• 3. After milk simmers, remove from heat, then add in the remaining cup of milk to cool pot down a bit, then add milk 1 ladle at a time to temper egg yolks. Then pour this back in pan and stir. Add vanilla. Stir water into cornstarch and add to mixture. *See NOTE
• 4. Turn heat up to medium and cook till Natilla is thick stirring constantly.
• 5. Remove cinnamon stick and pour into serving dishes. Sprinkle with group cinnamon. Place one cookie on top of each pudding. Refrigerate till cold at least 2 hours.
• 6. NOTE:I have an electric stove so I put my half and half and half with the additions on the lowest setting and let it start heating up. In the meantime I stir the sugar and egg yolks together and I go ahead and mix the water and the cornstarch together. Once that is done, I go back to the half and half mixture and I turn it up a couple of notches and then I start stirring immediately and I heat the mixture till it is steaming but not boiling, (my mother would call this scalding the milk) then I add in the cold milk. Now here again at this stage, the chefs on TV will add a scoop or tow of milk and call it good. However, they have never cooked anything for me so I cannot vouch for their abilities but my mama was a great cook and she always said: to temper your milk slowly add in a ladle full of milk at a time while stirring your eggs well until you have ladled about half your scalded milk into the eggs. Then slowly whisk it back into your milk mixture. So I follow my mother's instructions and I have never scrambled the eggs or had to strain them after.

NATILLA (CUBAN CINNAMON AND VANILLA CUSTARD)

Steps:

• Place the milk, cinnamon stick, salt and lime peel in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat and allow to cool, letting the spice and lime steep in the milk.
• In a bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar and the dissolved cornstarch until blended well.
• Discard the cinnamon stick and lime peel and combine the infused milk with the egg yolks in a heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly. When the mixture thickens to soft-custard consistency, turn the heat off and add the vanilla. Pour into a large dessert dish (like a 7-inch souffle dish) or 4 individual 1/2-cup dessert ramekins and chill.
• Serve sprinkled with ground cinnamon.

NATILLAS

Steps:

• In sauce pan warm milk.
• In separate bowl beat egg yolks, add sugar, flour and salt.
• Temper mixture with about 1/2 to 1 c of warm milk.
• Add mixture to sauce pan and heat until boils and thickens.
• Add vanilla.
• Remove from heat.
• In large bowl beat egg whites until stiff, fold mixture into egg whites.
• Sprinkle top with cinnamon.
• Place in fridge.
• Serve cold.

NATILLA

Steps:

• Place the milk, cinnamon stick, salt and lime peel in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat and allow to cool, letting the spice and lime steep in the milk.
• In a bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar and the dissolved cornstarch until blended well.
• Discard the cinnamon stick and lime peel and combine the infused milk with the egg yolks in a heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly. When the mixture thickens to soft-custard consistency, turn the heat off and add the vanilla. Pour into a large dessert dish (like a 7-inch souffle dish) or 4 individual 1/2-cup dessert ramekins and chill.
• Serve sprinkled with ground cinnamon.

CUSTARD (NATILLA)

Steps:

• Heat 1 cup milk,cinnamon,until boiling.
• remove from heat and dissolve cornstarch in water.
• Dissolve cornstarch in water mix the remaining cold milk and cornstarch solution.
• Mix egg and yolk together in cold milk and add the hot milk mixture.
• Heat over medium heat until thick and stir constantly.
• Remove from heat when thicken and add vanilla extract and mix well.
• Allow to cool and serve chilled.

NATILLA - CUBAN CUSTARD

Steps:

• Bring milk, cinnamon, zest & salt to a boil.
• Set aside to cool.
• Dissolve cornstarch in the water.
• Beat together diluted cornstarch, yolks & sugar.
• Add in the milk mixture.
• Strain.
• Cook in double boiler (preferred) or over medium flame stirring constantly until it thickens.
• Stir in vanilla & transfer to serving dish.
• Powder with cinnamon.