SAGO & MANDARIN PUDDING
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: South African
 
Ingredients
  • 4 Cups Milk
  • ¾ Cup Sago (which has been soaked in water for at least an hour )
  • 2 Whole Cinnamon Sticks
  • ½ Tsp Ground Cardamom
  • ½ Cup Sugar
  • 2 Tsps Vanilla Bean Paste or Vanilla Extract
  • 100 gr Butter (Divided)
  • 2 Tsps Custard Powder (Mixed With A ¼ Cup Of Cream)
  • 4 X-Large Eggs (lightly beaten)
For the Topping
  • 4 Mandarins Peeled and Sliced in Half
  • ¼ Cup Sugar
  • 1 Cinnamon Stick
  • 1 Cup Water
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven at 160° Celsius.
  2. Grease a large ovenproof dish
  3. Over medium heat boil milk, sago, cinnamon sticks, cardamom powder, sugar and vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract until thick and the sago is translucent.
  4. Add two-thirds of the butter and stir in well. Simmer for a few more minutes until the butter is completely dissolved, then remove from the heat.
  5. Add the custard powder mix to the milk mixture and stir through.
  6. Take about 3 or 4 soup ladles of the sago mixture and add it one ladle at a time to the beaten eggs. This is called tempering.
  7. Add the mixture back into the pot and stir through thoroughly until well combined.
  8. Remove the cinnamon sticks and pour the mixture into the ovenproof dish, dot pieces of the leftover butter over the pudding.
  9. Bake in the preheated oven for about 30 – 35 minutes, until set and the pudding, is lightly brown on top.
  10. Meanwhile, peel and halve the mandarins. Place the sugar and cinnamon stick in a saucepan with the water and bring to a simmer.
  11. When the syrup is slightly sticky add the fruit to the syrup and cook over medium-low heat for approx 10 minutes or until the fruit is lightly cooked.
  12. Spoon the mandarins and the syrup over baked sago and serve hot.
  13. Serves 6-8!
Recipe by SAPeople South African Recipes at https://tastyrecipes.staging.sapeople.com/sago-pudding/