By now if you have understood me a little, then it won’t be difficult for you to guess, gauge and acknowledge, that other things being variable, the one thing that constantly exists in my thought is food. Thus, naturally the quantum of logics and theories regarding food that cross my mind is relatively little higher compared to others. And few days back, while experiencing similar flow of thoughts related to food, I started pondering on one thought, ‘what are the factors that are crucial for creating a good dish?’ After putting some time and energy, I came to the conclusion – it should be taste and imagination.
Yes, there are other factors like fresh ingredients, texture, proper cooking, temperature etc. do play their role. But at the end of the day to decide which one is right, one ultimately needs to taste it. And when I say taste, it encompasses everything, touch, smell, seeing, feeling, tasting through tongue etc. To create good food we need to experience, to understand flavour, aroma and the texture of a food. We also need to know which flavour will enhance a dish and which flavour will go against a dish.
Similarly, the second factor which is important for creating and most importantly to innovate a good dish is your imagination. As Gautam Buddha had said, ‘What you imagine you create’. It is with the power of imagination and experience of taste, that help us blend the flavours, which have never been tried before, or tweak the dish by adding some ingredients, surprisingly never thought of. It is imagination and taste that sometimes give us the courage, even to the extent of combining dishes and creating unbelievable masterpieces. One such similar masterpiece is “Vanilla Custard Sandwich’, which is nothing but an outcome of my sincere hardwork, called ‘eating heartily’😊, that resulted in my thorough understanding of the traits of the ingredients, and thus allowing me to imagine a dish with few simple tweaks and additions.
If I have to be honest, I never tasted the dish ‘Vanilla Custard Sandwich,’ before I decided to include the same in my blog. But I did taste vanilla custard and butter toasted bread innumerable times, although separately, and deep inside me, somehow, I knew the combination would work. So, with this confidence I went ahead and gave a life to this imagination – ‘Vanilla Custard Sandwich’, which obviously turned-out way beyond my expectation.
Here is the step-by-step recipe for you to try.
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Recipe: Vanilla Custard Sandwich
Custard Preparation Time: Around 15 minutes Readying Fruit: Around 8 minutes Sandwich Making Time: Around 15 minutes for 2 sandwiches (4 slices of bread) Equipment Used: A saucepan, a turner, a tawa or griddle, and a bowl Yield: 2 sandwiches (4 slices of bread)
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoon readymade vanilla custard powder
- ½ litre milk
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- ½ pomegranate
- 1 banana
- 4 slices of sandwich bread or sweet bread
- Butter (brought to room temperature) to be spread on bread
Method:
- Prepare custard as per the instruction provided on the pack. Below is the process I have followed to prepare custard, as per the direction provided on the pack, I have used
– I have mixed 2 tablespoon custard powder with 3 tablespoon milk, taken from ½ litre milk to form a paste
– I have boiled the remaining milk and then added sugar
– Slowly I have added the custard paste to the boiling milk while stirring continuously
– After which I switched off the flame and kept the custard aside to cool down - While the prepared custard cools down, cut and add the fruits to the custard and spread them with a turner. I have used pomegranate and banana
- Heat a tawa
- Spread butter on both sides of slices of bread
- Lightly toast them while flipping them frequently, so that they turn out crispy
- Take two toasted bread slices, put custard on one and cover the custard bread slice with another
- Cut the sandwich diagonally into half
Mix custard powder with milk, taken from ½ lire milk to form a paste.
Boil the remaining milk and then added sugar.
Add the custard paste to the boiling milk while stirring continuously.
Switch off the flame and keep the custard aside to cool down.
While the prepared custard cools down, cut and add the fruits to the custard and spread them with a turner.
Heat a tawa.
Spread butter on both sides of slices of bread.
Lightly toast them while flipping them frequently, so that they turn out crispy.
Put custard on one toasted slice and cover the custard slice with another.
Cut the sandwich diagonally into half.
Tips:
- For an even and lump free custard, stir for another 5 minutes after pouring custard paste into the boiling milk
- You can use any fruit of your choice to add into the custard. All fruits will taste delicious
- Make the bread little crispy so that the bread does not turn soggy after spreading the liquid custard
- To avoid having soggy bread slices, have the dish immediately after preparing it
