Milk Pudding alà Portoguese

This recipe is traditional in several zones of Italy. I ate it in Romagna, in the zone around Faenza, but also, with light differences, in Tuscany. It's a cake simple to prepare and with taste pretty diffent from the usual egg pudding, try it!


Ingredients for approximately 6 persons: 2 pts. of fresh milk, 8 eggs, 1 vanilla bean, 2 spoons full of powdered cacao, 14 ozs. of sugar, some toasted coffee beans.

Preparation: simmer the milk together with the vanilla bean and the coffee beans. Meanwhile whip 3 eggs and 5 egg yolks, the cacao and half of the sugar. When the milk is halved, remove the coffee beans and add the egg compound you just prepared. Caramelize the moulds with the remaining sugar and then pour the compound within. Cook in a bain-marie into the oven, set to medium temperature, until the puddings will dried up (use a pin or a toothpick to control them inside). Let the puddings cool down then you can turn them upside down and serve in table.