Cranberry Porridge
Ingredients
- 2 sour apples
- 2 cups cranberry nectar
- 1/2 vanilla bean
- 1 small cinnamon stick
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- For the vanilla sauce:
- 2 cups milk
- 2 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1/2 vanilla bean
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 4 fresh egg yolks (M)
Instructions
- Rinse apples, cut into quarters, and remove seeds. Peel off skin and cut apples into pieces. Add cranberry nectar in a pot. Add apple slices. Cut vanilla bean lengthwise, scrape out seeds, and add vanilla bean and seeds into pot. Add cinnamon and sugar. Slowly bring it to a boil and let it simmer gently for 4-6 minutes. Whisk cornstarch with some cold water and stir it into the juice. Add cranberries and bring it to a boil again while stirring. Let cranberry porridge cool off.
- For the vanilla sauce, mix 1/2 cup milk with cornstarch. Pour remaining milk into a pot. Cut vanilla bean lengthwise, scrape out the seeds, and add vanilla bean and seeds to the pot. Let it simmer gently for 3-5 minutes. Remove vanilla bean. Stir in sugar and mixed cornstarch and bring it to a boil again while stirring. Beat egg yolks with some of the vanilla sauce and whisk it into the vanilla sauce. Let it cool.
- Serve cranberry compote with vanilla sauce.