Tart with Fruit Palada | Kerala Fusion Milk Dessert

Ingredients for Tart with Fruit Palada:

For Tart Base:

1. Butter melted – ¾ cup
   Biscuit crushed – 200 gm

For Fruit Palada:

2. Cashews chopped – 1 tablespoon
   Raisins – 1 tablespoon
   Ghee – 2 tablespoons
3. Condensed milk/Milkmaid – ½ tin
   Rice ada – 1/3 cup
   Milk – 2 cups
   Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp
4. Cornflour – 2 tablespoons
   Milk – 4 tablespoons
5. Fresh fruits – Mango, apple, pomegranate (To garnish)

How to prepare Tart with Fruit Palada?

1. Take a bowl and put melted butter and smashed biscuit.
2. Mix it well and prepare the dough for the tart.
3.  Transfer the dough to tart moulds and set it using the backside of a spoon.
4. Place the tart bases in the refrigerator for 1 hour and allow them to set.
5. To prepare fruity palada, first soak rice ada in 2 cups of lukewarm water for 10 minutes.
6.  Remove water and thoroughly rinse the ada in cold water 2-3 times.
7.  Fry ghee and raisins in hot ghee, and keep them separate.
8. In a thick-bottomed pan, take milk, condensed milk, cardamom powder, and soaked ada.
9. Cook the contents on a medium flame for a while.
10. Add the cornflour-milk mixture to it.
11. Keep stirring so that the contents won’t stick to the bottom of the pan.
12. Continue cooking till palada turns soft and thick (around 10-15 minutes).
13.  Take palada from flame and add fried raisins & cashews, and fresh fruits chopped.
14.  Allow your fruit palada to cool off completely.
15. Take the tart bases from the refrigerator and fill each of them with fruit palada.
16. Chill your Tart with Fruit Palada in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours and remove the moulds before you serve.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine January 7-20, 2023

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