December 23rd, 2007
Haupia
If you’ve visited Hawaii, you’re probably smacking your lips right now. If you haven’t yet, then Haupia is a coconut dessert. Not a pudding exactly - it’s more solid than a pudding. More like a creamy jello but made with coconut milk and thickened with cornstarch (so it’s still kind of transparent.) One of my favorite desserts - there’s alway a little room “in the cracks” for Haupia!
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 cups coconut milk
- 1 cup whole milk
- 7 tablespoons sugar (you can use less, but I like mine sweet)
- 5 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
PREPARATION:
Pour one cup of coconut milk and the dash of Vanilla extract into a saucepan. Combine sugar and cornstarch stirring into coconut milk. Heat over low stirring constantly until slightly thickened. I can’t stress the stirring part enough - like any milk recipe, if you don’t keep stirring it will burn and/or form a skin!
Add remainder of coconut milk and whole milk and continue to heat until thickened again. Pour the mixture into an 8 inch square pan and chill until firm. Wasn’t that easy?