Vanilla Pudding

I love to eat vanilla pudding all of the time.  I could eat it for every meal and snack.  It is especially easy to digest, so if I am having a bad belly day I know that at least I can eat vanilla pudding. 

I am providing the recipe I make when I need enough for just me.  Honestly, this recipe makes quite a bit.  But after I dish myself pudding and then come back for another helping, all of the pudding is gone.  My husband always manages to steal it.  If I need enough for my kids I have to double this.  It is nice to store extra pudding in your fridge to eat as an easy snack. 

Recipe:

4 tablespoons of potato starch

3/4 cups sugar

3 cups of milk (I use almond milk or coconut milk)

3 eggs (you can use 2 if you want)

2 teaspoons of vanilla

2 tablespoons of butter (only if you can - and honestly I can't)

Directions:

1. Mix the corn starch and sugar into a medium sized pan.  Just as fair warning, all of these pictures show a double batch (my kids wanted some).

2. Add the milk.  Stir up the milk and sugar/starch mixture well so that there are no lumps.  After the mixture is smooth cook the pudding on medium heat until it begins to boil.  You need to carefully stir the pudding the whole time it is cooking so that it does not burn.  Pay carefully attention to the bottom of the pan and make sure no lumps are forming. 

3. Once the pudding begins to boil take it off the heat.  The next step is to incorporate the eggs into the pudding.  Break the eggs into a bowl.  Whisk them up.  So that the eggs do not cook too fast and curdle the pudding you have to slowly heat them up with the cooked pudding.  In order to do this I use a cup and scoop up some of the pudding.  Then I slowly pour the pudding into the eggs at the same time I am whisking up the eggs.  You need to put at least 1/3 of the pudding into the eggs. 

 4. Once the eggs have been heated up, you can now add them into the pudding.  I am most successful with this step if I leave the pudding off of the heat and slowly add the eggs while I am whisking the pudding. 

5. After the eggs have made it into the pudding you need to heat it back up.  The pudding needs to boil for a couple of minutes so that the eggs can cook and it can get a little thicker.  After the pudding has boiled for a couple of minutes pull the pan off the heat.  Add the vanilla and butter and enjoy!