Watalappan

Name: Watalappan
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 110 g jaggery (see Note), grated; 200 ml coconut milk; ¼ tsp ground nutmeg; 1 cinnamon quill; 2 cardamom pods, bruised; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 4 eggs; 25 g unsalted roasted cashews, halved, plus extra roughly chopped, to serve

Instructions

Prep:15minCook:50min

From French crème caramel to Filipino leche flan, steamed caramel custards can be found around the globe. Sri Lanka’s version, watalappan, uses coconut milk, a ubiquitous ingredient on this coconut palm-fringed tropical island. This rich, silky dessert, thought to have Malay origins and particularly favoured by Sri Lanka’s Muslim community, is embellished with roasted cashews for a counterpoint of crunch.

Updated at: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:29:44 GMT