Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's Kitchen. Today we're making a sugar-free custard one
of my regular viewers
Sharon, asked me to make a sugar free ice cream and all great ice creams start with
a vanilla custard.
Now I'm going to be using stevia, you can get it in liquid form
which is highly concentrated, you use a few drops of this
if you're using it to replace sugar and you can also get stevia in a powder
form it is often like to like so one teaspoon of this equals a teaspoon of
sugar.
This one's called Natvia I'm going to be using this to make my custard.
Now let me show you how
Now first of all I'm just going to put 1 pint of full cream milk
into a heavy based saucepan ideally you want a saucepan with a fairly thick
base
and then we want to flavor that with vanilla Now always use either a vanilla
bean paste
or vanilla extract don't use an essence if you're going to the trouble of making
custard.
You can also use a proper vanilla bean. Now I'm just going to take this one we
want to split
along the body edge like that, just open up the been like that and then get the
edge of your knife and just scrape out those wonderful vanilla beans
and that's going to go straight into our milk and we're not going to waste the pod
just going to cut this one into two pieces pop it into the milk as well
and then we just bring that over to the stove and bring it up to a simmer on
medium heat
Now I've got four egg yolks in a bowl here
and we're going to be using a couple tablespoons of our stevia sweetener
now I would just add if you are making this into a custard for
ice cream you to add another 2 tablespoons because the sweetener needs
to
sweeten the other ingredients, the extra cream that's going to be added in there
and when you're making an egg custard you don't always add corn flour
but if we add a tablespoon of cornflour there's less chance of the custard
separating
just makes it a little easier for the home cook. Then I want you to take a whisk
I'm going to whisk this together until we get a light creamy consistency
expect the egg yolks to lighten slightly. That's what we're looking for
now I've bought that milk up to a simmer and we don't want to pour all that hot milk into
here we have to temper these eggs a little bit first, you can use
a ladle or just splash a little bit of milk, about a quarter of a cup
and just quickly whisk this so the eggs don't cook
and that's just going to temper the egg yolks and then we are either going to put this into
there or that into here I prefer to do it this way. I'm just going to pour my
milk in slowly
while whisking just keep whisking this together
and then what we want to do is put that back into our saucepan
and at this point I'm going change to a wooden spoon we're going back over to the
stove
and as we warm this very gently on the stove we're going to keep stirring
so the egg doesn't cook on the bottom and become lumpy
now it's important not to have too high heat on the pan at the moment and we do
want to keep stirring
all the way around the corners little figure of eight into the center and
eventually this is going to thicken up
and it'll coat the back of the spoon and then our custard will be ready
and if you're very patient and you let this warm slowly
the custard itself shouldn't split we want to coat the back of the spoon like that
see the little seeds on there as well.
Now that is ready that is a wonderful dessert
custard and there we have a pint of beautiful
vanilla custard with all the little beans in that that is gonna taste
delicious
Now I'm not going to be eating this just now because this is going into a sugar
free ice cream.
So stay tuned for that. I hope for those of you that are avoiding sugar in your diet
you'll find this useful. Now please share the love
and I love to hear your comments. Be good I'll see you in the next video. Stay
tuned.
A big thank you for joining me. I'm going to leave a link here to a couple of recipes that you
could use this sort of custard.
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