FLUFFY VANILLA CUSTARD WITH CRANBERRY KISEL

FLUFFY VANILLA CUSTARD WITH CRANBERRY KISEL image

Yield 4-6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 11

Ingredients

CUSTARD:
1/2 l whole milk (3.5% fat or so)
2 eggs, cooled and yolks/whites separated
1/2 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup white sugar
2/3 tsp vanilla sugar
KISEL:
1 1/2 cup wild cranberries
1 1/2 cup sugar
100g potato starch
1.8 l filtered water + 100 ml cold water

Steps:

MAKING THE CUSTARD: In a bowl, mix flour and 250ml milk. Beat the mix until it's thin and runny like a crepe batter. Beat egg yolks with 1/4 cup sugar and 2/3 tsp vanilla sugar until pale. Set aside. In a saucepan, bring to boil the remaining milk. Just as the milk starts to boil, add in the milk&flour mix while stirring. Add in egg yolks&sugar. Keep stirring vigorously to break up large lumps. Smaller lumps might remain; we use a blender to get rid of them after the custard is ready. Simmer the custard for a couple of minutes, stirring all of the time, until it thickens. Set aside. Add remaining sugar to cooled egg whites and whip them until thick and firm. It's time you use a blender to break up small lumps in the custard, if any. When the custard is smooth and creamy, add in the whipped egg whites and stir together gently. Leave to cool for approximately 3 hours. MAKING THE KISEL: Rinse and crush the cranberries. Place crushed berries into a saucepan and add sugar. Pour 1.8 l boiling water over the cranberries, keep them on high heat until bubbles appear, then bring heat to medium low and keep the mix boiling gently for about 10 minutes. The colour of crushed berry skins will fade as they boil, and you can stop whenever you feel like the berries have given all of their juices and flavour. In the meantime, dissolve the starch in 100ml cold water. When cranberry mix is ready, pass it through a sieve to get rid of berry skins and return the hot cordial into the saucepan. Keep it on medium low heat and slowly pour in the starch mix. This is the crucial moment and you've got to keep stirring kisel as you add more starch, and stir well afterwards. The better you stir the better the texture of your kisel will be. After you've added starch, just bring kisel to boil. Remove from heat and leave to cool. A thin skin might appear on the surface of kisel after it's cooled, just remove it!