The custard is one of the most used sweet creams in the world of pastry. It is used to fill all types of cakes, croissants, muffins, puff pastry and a long etcetera. However, doing it can be a somewhat heavy task because it is necessary to constantly remove the mixture, but we have the solution! For those people who have just entered the elaboration of desserts and look for easy and fast recipes, we show how to make a custard to the microwave. Yes, although it seems a lie it is possible to make a pastele cream to the microwave and will not take more than 5 minutes. In addition, if your microwave is very powerful, you can even have it ready in 3 minutes! Follow the step by step of the pastelera custard to the microwave that we share and let yourself be surprised by its texture and flavor, practically equal to those of the traditional cream.
| 🚻 2 Diners | 🕘 10m | 🍵 DIFFULTITITY VERY LOW | 🤯 |
| Ingredients to make a custard to the microwave: |
| 250 milliliters of milk 2 tablespoons of sugar 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence 2 tablespoons of maicena 1 egg yolk 1 branch of cinnamon (optional) |
| ADDITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS: Cheap cost, |
Ingredients to make a custard to the microwave:
1. Mix the cornstarch with the sugar using a spoon, manual rods or fork. You can use common sugar or icing sugar. Likewise, if you do not have cornfield you can replace it with rice flour, the amount is the same. In case of wanting to aromatize the cream with the cinnamon branch, we recommend separating 50 ml of milk and heat it for 1 minute to the microwave with the cinnamon.
Trick: To make your light custard to the microwave, use brown or sweetener sugar.
2. Break the yolks and báte them slightly. In order not to discard the whites, we encourage you to prepare Swiss homemade meringue with them. Of course, do not try to make the custard to the microwave with the whole eggs because it will not look good.
3. Mix the yolks with milk and vanilla essence with manual rods. If you decided to heat the 50 ml of milk with the cinnamon branch, retire it and add infusted milk to this mixture.
4. Little by little cornstarch and sugar add and integrate these ingredients with the same rods. They should not meet lumps, so that it beats.
5. Heat the pastry cream to the microwave for 2 minutes at maximum power. After this time, retir it, mix with the rods and turn it to heat in half -minute or minute intervals, depending on how powerful your microwave is.
6. Remove the cream every time you add time and remove for a few seconds. As you batter, you will see that the thick cream. You will be ready when you acquire the typical custard consistency and you can form drawings with the rods. In our case, we have had to heat it for a total of 5 minutes, adding intervals of 1 minute to prevent it from burning. But as we said at the beginning, if your microwave is very powerful, it is possible that with 3 minutes it is enough. On the contrary, if it is less powerful, you may need a little more time.
7. And voila! You already have your custard to the microwave prepared to use. If you are not going to use it immediately, we recommend you cover it with a sheet of film paper, so that it touches the cream directly. In this way, a thick bed on the surface will not be created. When it cools, it is possible that thickens a little more, you should simply beat with the rods and thats it.
