Old Fashioned Tapioca Pudding
We serve our tapioca pudding cold topped with a little fresh whipped cream. I found the tapioca pearls in the bulk section of my health foods store. Note that the tapioca pearls must soak overnight before you can prepare the pudding.
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Ingredients:
| 1/2 cup | pearl tapioca |
| 1 1/2 cups | milk |
| 1 1/2 cups | heavy cream |
| 1 | fresh vanilla bean |
| 1/2 cup | sugar |
| 1 pinch | salt |
| 2 | eggs yolks |
Directions:
Soak the pearls in water overnight, covered well with water. Drain the water off.
Heat the milk, cream, vanilla bean (split and scraped), and tapioca to a slow simmer in a heavy pot and cook for 1 hour, stirring often.
Add the sugar and salt. Bring to a simmer being careful not to let the tapioca stick to the bottom of the pan.
Put the yolks into a bowl and stir in some of the tapioca mixture to temper the eggs.
Then add yolks to the pan while stirring. Pour into a bowl and cool.
You can it it warm (as I hear it is often served in the colder months) We like ours after it has chilled several hours in the fridge at any time of year.
Source: food.com
