Coffee Pudding with Coffee Sauce

Coffee Pudding is a milk based dessert.

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

1. Milk – 500 ml
2. China grass strands (Agar – Agar) – 5 gm
3. Sugar – 4 to 5 tbsp
4. Instant coffee – 3 heaped tsp
5. Corn flour – 1 tbsp
6. Water – 125 ml

For the Coffee Sauce:

1. Sugar – 3 tbsp
2. Water – 3 tbsp
3. Instant Coffee – 1 tsp
4. Fresh cream – 2 tbsp

Procedure:

• Cut china grass into small pieces. Soak in water (room temperature) for about 45 mins.
• Dissolve corn starch in 1/4 cup milk, keep aside.
• Boil remaining milk.
• Simultaneously, boil china grass mixture on medium flame till it dissolves completely. Stir it. Strain it through a steel strainer.
• Add sugar and corn starch mixture to the boiled milk. Stir well and bring it to boil.
• Add china grass mixture and stir well. Boil for 2 – 3 min, stir continuously.
• Add coffee and stir well.
• Pour it into the mould.
• Let it cool.
• Refrigerate for at least 2-3 hrs.
• Prepare coffee sauce before serving. Take sugar and water in a pan and boil to make a thick sugar syrup. Dissolve coffee with a tsp of water and add to it. Let it cool slightly, then add cream and stir well.
• Invert the pudding on a plate before serving.
• Pour coffee sauce over it.
• Serve chilled.