Classic Homemade Tapioca Pudding Recipes

CLASSIC HOMEMADE TAPIOCA PUDDING

Steps:

• Place tapioca in a small container and cover with water. Allow it to sit counter top and check after an 30 minutes. If water has been absorbed, add more to cover.
• Soak for 6 hours or until the pearls become 'spongy'.
• To cook, place tapioca, milk, and salt in the top of a double boiler (you can use a stainless steel bowl over a sauce pan.
• Fill the bottom pan with water, but not enough to touch the top bowl.
• Bring water to a boil then reduce to a slight simmer. Stir the tapioca often, scraping the bottom as you go.
• Once the tapioca pearls have become translucent, test one or two. If they are quite soft, with just a slight bite in the centre, they are done. This could take 45 minutes- 3 hours.
• Beat the eggs and sugar together in a large measuring cup.
• Temper the eggs by adding a bit of the hot tapioca at a time, stirring it into the sugary eggs.
• Once the eggs have become warm, gradually stir the mixture into the hot tapioca.
• Cook over boiling water, constantly stirring, until the mixture thickens slightly.
• Slice the vanilla bean lengthwise and scrape the seeds with a knife. Add vanilla to the pudding.
• Add cinnamon and stir.
• Serve warm or cover surface of the pudding with plastic wrap and chill.

TAPIOCA PUDDING

Steps:

• Add milk, cream, sugar and salt to a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, then stir in tapioca and reduce heat to low. Cook, stirring often, until mixture has slightly thickened, and the tapioca pearls have plumped and softened, about 45 minutes.
• Add the eggs to a bowl and whisk to combine.
• Add a spoonful of hot tapioca mixture to the beaten eggs, stirring well as you pour it in. Repeat with another few spoonfuls of hot tapioca, stirring after each. (This helps temper the eggs and bring them to a warm temperature without "scrambling" them.)
• Add tempered egg mixture to the saucepan with tapioca and stir well to combine. Cook for 2-5 more minutes, just until thickened (keep in mind it will continue to thicken as it cools). Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
• Transfer to a serving bowl and place a piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the pudding (to keep it from forming a rubbery skin on the surface). Allow it to cool before serving. Serve either warm or chilled.

HOMEMADE TAPIOCA PUDDING

Steps:

• In a medium bowl soak tapioca in water overnight (about 8 hours). Drain water.
• In a double boiler heat milk until no longer cold. Stir in salt and tapioca. Continue heating until small bubbles appear at the sides of the pan. Cover, turn heat to low and cook for 1 hour. Make sure the milk does not simmer or boil.
• In a medium mixing bowl wisk together sugar and egg yolks until light in color. While whisking add a little bit of the hot milk mixture. Then add the egg yolk mixture to the hot milk mixture, stirring constantly. Place the double boiler over medium heat and cook until tapioca mixture is very thick, about 15 minutes.
• Gently fold in beaten egg whites into the hot tapioca mixture. Stir in vanilla. Serve warm or chilled.

CLASSIC TAPIOCA PUDDING

Steps:

• Stir together the milk, tapioca, sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low; cook and stir 5 minutes longer.
• Whisk 1 cup of the hot milk mixture into the beaten eggs, 2 tablespoons at a time until incorporated. Stir the egg mixture back into the tapioca until well mixed. Bring the pudding to a gentle simmer over medium-low heat; cook and stir 2 minutes longer until the pudding becomes thick enough to evenly coat the back of a metal spoon. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla. The pudding may be served hot or poured into serving dishes and refrigerated several hours until cold.

OLD FASHIONED TAPIOCA PUDDING

Steps:

• Soak the pearls in water overnight, covered well with water. Drain the water off.
• Heat the milk, cream, vanilla bean (split and scraped), and tapioca to a slow simmer in a heavy pot and cook for 1 hour, stirring often.
• Add the sugar and salt. Bring to a simmer being careful not to let the tapioca stick to the bottom of the pan.
• Put the yolks into a bowl and stir in some of the tapioca mixture to temper the eggs.
• Then add yolks to the pan while stirring. Pour into a bowl and cool.
• You can it it warm (as I hear it is often served in the colder months) We like ours after it has chilled several hours in the fridge at any time of year.