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Lagan Nu Custard Recipe
How to make Lagan Nu Custard
About Lagan-Nu-Custard Recipe: A Parsi dessert, 'Lagan-Nu-Custard' is prepared during the weddings. The name itself means 'wedding custard'. Made with simple everyday ingredients like milk, eggs, butter and nuts.
- Total Cook Time1 hr 10 mins
- Prep Time 10 mins
- Cook Time1 hr
- Recipe Servings2
- Easy
Ingredients of Lagan Nu Custard
- Oven temp: 350 F-180 C
- 5 cups Milk, full cream
- 1/4 cup Sugar
- 6 Green cardamoms
- 1/8 tsp Nutmeg (powdered together with the cardamoms)
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
- 1/4 cup Almonds (slivered), blanched
- 1/4 cup Chironji/charoli nuts
- 4 Eggs (slightly beaten)
- 1/2 cup Cream
- A generously buttered oven proof serving dish
- A few blobs of butter to top the custard
- To decorate Nuts
How to Make Lagan Nu Custard
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Cook milk and sugar together, to reduce it to half the amount.
2.
Add half the spice powder, half the nuts and the vanilla and mix well and cool.
3.
Mix the cream into the milk and beat the mixture into the beaten eggs.
4.
Transfer into the prepared dish, sprinkle the rest of the nuts and spices, and the blobs of butter and bake in the pre heated oven for 1/2 an hour (a skewer inserted should come out clean).
5.
Should be brown on top.
6.
Cool and chill. You can also decorate with nuts.
7.
Cut into squares and serve.