Name: Wattalapam (egg pudding with spices)
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 70 min
Ingredients: Butter for buttering the ramekins; 200 ml milk; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp ground cardamom; 1 tsp ground cloves; 1 pinch of ground nutmeg; 200 ml coconut milk; 8 eggs; 200 g raw sugar; 60 ml water

Wattalapam (egg pudding with spices)

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1 10

Course Dessert

Cuisine Sri Lanka

Servings 8 people

Ingredients

Butter for buttering the ramekins

For the pudding:

200 ml milk
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground cardamom
1 tsp ground cloves
1 pinch of ground nutmeg
200 ml coconut milk
8 eggs

For the syrup:

200 g raw sugar
60 ml water

Instructions

Preheat oven to 160 °C

Sugar syrup:

Place sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat until golden and syrupy, then cool.

Pudding:

Place milk and spices in a saucepan and heat to almost boiling point. Then remove from heat and add the coconut milk.
Whisk the eggs and sugar syrup together and add to the milk mixture. Mix everything well.
Pour the mixture into the previously buttered ramekins.
Place the ramekins in a casserole dish – the casserole dish half filled with hot water.
Put the casserole dish with the ramekins in it into the oven preheated to 160°C. Let the pudding thicken in the oven (about 50 minutes).

Keyword Eggpudding, Wattalapam

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