About Lagan-Nu-Custard Recipe: A Parsi dessert, 'Lagan-Nu-Custard' is prepared during weddings. The name itself means 'wedding custard'. Made with simple everyday ingredients like milk, eggs, butter and nuts.
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
1.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.
Key Ingredients: Milk, Sugar, Green cardamoms, Nutmeg (powdered together with the cardamoms), Vanilla essence, Almonds (slivered), Chironji/charoli nuts, Eggs (slightly beaten), Cream,
