ASIAN FUSION HALLOWEEN DESSERT [ EASY 5 Ingredient recipe ]

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Trick or treat?

Hehe! Halloween is coming and I don't even know why I'm so excited. It's never my culture since I was born and raised in Thailand. This month, we already started watching horror movie every night and just last night, I made Thai dessert in form of Halloween Pumpkin!! The idea just randomly popped. I made it and it's super yummy tummy so I'm here sharing the recipe with you all. It's not going to be just yummy but it's pretty too!

Thai style egg custard

Just like it's name, it's egg custard. Sweet and smooth as silk. Combined with steam pumpkin, make it a bit healthier just can't go wrong. Putting the dessert into a Halloween pumpkin makes it even more exotic so, let's dive in!

Pick your pumpkin!

In Thailand, we normally use another type of pumpkin. It's green from outside, looks almost like a frog...? #ew Though, it's really delicious once cooked! It's think, heavy yet smooth and naturally sweet.

I'm now in the US so I can't really find Thai pumpkin anywhere though, I don't think it matters that much so I picked one randomly from a supermarket. Easy peasy to find this month. Pumpkins everywhere!

Take out the seeds

This is totally up to you how you prefer to do it. Hands, spoon, knife? I use an ice-cream scooper. For the seeds, I saved it for later. We might roast and eat them as snacks or my friend might make an effort to grow it next season.

Mix coconut milk with coconut sugar

Now, let's mix the custard ingredients. As mention, we need only 5 ingredients and pumpkin is already one of them. The other four, we will be putting into this bowl. Coconut milk, coconut sugar (I think brown sugar would work just fine), eggs and a bit of salt.

I don't have fix ratio. Mostly, just eyeball it and feel how sweet how salty I would like it to be. In this one, I use 8 eggs (I know, 8 eggs!), half a can of coconut milk, 6 pieces of coconut sugar and a bit of salt.

Mix them well together till they turn into one fine mix. Please make sure the texture and thickness is a bit like, whipped egg or a bit thinner. Never make it too thin or it won't form as a custard but more like, sweet egg soup #lol

Pour the mix into the pumpkin

Pour the mix into the pumpkin. Make sure you don't pour it too full as once it's cooked, the custard kinda get higher than the point you pour in. I left about 2 cm on top.

Steam for 1 hour (Depend on how big your pumpkin is)

Steam for about 1 hour. Make sure to open the steamer to let out the heat every 15 or 20 minutes to prevent any cracks on the pumpkin. For my size of a pumpkin, I steamed it for about 1.5 hours.

Tada!

Once it's all cooked, you can see how cute it already is. The mix expands a bit so now it's even higher than the pumpkin line that we cut open. The pumpkin lid that we steamed together with the whole thing itself makes this thing even cuter.

Make it scary!! (or cute #lol)

Since it's not a regular pumpkin or a regular Thai egg custard, it's ASIAN FUSION HALLOWEEN DESSERT so, we are going to add some halloweeny face to the pumpkin. As mentioned, Halloween is never my thing so I even needed search for some picture and see how the Halloween face looks like and.. tada, I got a simple Halloween face but cute enough on the Thai dessert.

Taste test!

It's my first time making this so I was pretty excited about how it would taste like. Cut through the 2 things both pumpkin and the custard. The 2 tone Thai style custard. Normally we would have sweetened yolk noodle on top but, this works just fine.

If you make it well, you won't see any bubble on the custard. It's supposed to be smooth surface and yes, that's what I got on mine. Super proud... #lol

The custard is soft as silk. A bit sweet, a bit eggy. Eaten with the steam pumpkin is just a perfect combination and it makes the dessert a bit healthier as well.

Happy Halloween! Hope this gives you some fun ideas for Halloween :) Please subscribe to ASIANMR CHANNEL for more foodie stuff <3