Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, rich kabocha squash puddings. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Rich Kabocha Squash Puddings is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Rich Kabocha Squash Puddings is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have rich kabocha squash puddings using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Rich Kabocha Squash Puddings:

1. Prepare 250 grams de-seeded and peeled Kabocha squash
2. Get 2 Eggs
3. Take 100 ml Milk (low-fat is ok)
4. Make ready 100 ml Heavy cream (or whipped cream)
5. Take 4 tbsp Honey
6. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp Cornstarch
7. Make ready 60 grams ★Sugar
8. Prepare 2 tbsp ★Water

Steps to make Rich Kabocha Squash Puddings:

1. Microwave the kabocha until tender, and take off the peel. Preheat the oven to 340F/170C.
2. Make the caramel sauce. Put the ★ sugar and 1 tablespoon of water in a small pan. Heat until golden brown, turn the heat off, and add the rest of the water.
3. When you are making the caramel, don't use a spatula to mix, swirl the pan instead. The sauce may bubble over when you add the water. Please be careful not to burn yourself.
4. Pour the caramel sauce into small pudding molds or ramekins. I used 8 pudding molds.
5. Put all the ingredients except for the ★ ones into a blender, and puree.
6. Pour the mixture from Step 5 into the pudding molds. Put the molds on a baking sheet that's the right size, add 1 cm of boiling water to the pan, and bake in the oven.
7. Bake in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes. The cooking time varies depending on how big your molds are and your oven.
8. When the puddings are set, cool down and then chill in the refrigerator. Optionally, decorate with whipped cream and other garnishes.
9. These are quite rich puddings with a pronounced kabocha squash flavor. You can also make a delicious sweet potato version, replacing the kabocha squash in this recipe.
10. I floated cookies on top of the kabocha squash pudding. The cookies get nice and moist. I recommend this version too.
11. If you get very dense and floury kabocha squash, add about 30 to 50 ml more milk.

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