MAPLE BUDINO

By Loish

Custard with maple syrup

Ingredients

• 1 cup 2% milk
• 3/4 cup whole milk
• 1/2 vanilla bean scraped
• 2 tbsp. packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup maple syrup, plus extra for garnish
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2 eggs
• flaked sea salt
• berries for garnish
• whipped cream if desired

Preparation

Step 1

Heat oven to 325F
Heat both milks in saucepan just until they come to a simmer. Add the vanilla bean, sugar, syrup. and salt, whisking until uniform.
In a medium bowl, beat eggs until pale yellow. Drizzle about 1/4 cup hot milk into the eggs, whisking the whole time. Once mixed, add another 1/4 cup milk and whisk. Once ,mixed, add the remainder of the milk and mix gently just until combined. Remove and discard vanilla bean. Pour into six 4-oz. ramekins.
Carefully set the ramekins into large baking dish, adding enough boiling water to fill half way up the ramekins. Be careful not to splash water into custard. Place baking dish into oven and bake until budinos are set ( the center will still be jiggly), about 30-40 minutes.
Once budfinos are cooked, immediately remover the ramekins from the hot waterbath. Let cool a few minutes then refrigerate at least 1 hour.
Serve with maple syrup, a few flecks of salt. Garnish with berries and/or whipped cre4am if desired.