Coconut Tapioca Pudding

Name: Coconut Tapioca Pudding
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 383 grams can coconut milk; 177 milliliters unsweetened large-flake coconut*, toasted; 118 milliliters chopped fresh fruit such as mango, papaya, or kiwi fruit; 237 milliliters About whole milk or soy milk; 59 milliliters sugar; 79 milliliters pearl tapioca; 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise

Coconut Tapioca Pudding might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains roughly 5g of protein, 34g of fat, and a total of 459 calories. This recipe covers 12% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 45 minutes. If you have sugar, large-flake coconut, soy milk, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and vegan diet.

Instructions

In a medium saucepan, cook tapioca in 1 1/2 qts. boiling water until only slightly chewy to the bite, 5 to 8 minutes.

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Tapioca

Water

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Sauce Pan

Pour through a fine strainer.

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Sieve

Meanwhile, in another medium saucepan over medium heat, warm the coconut milk, 1 cup whole milk, the sugar, and vanilla bean, pressing bean gently to loosen seeds, until steaming, 6 to 8 minutes.

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Coconut Milk

Vanilla Bean

Whole Milk

Seeds

Sugar

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Sauce Pan

Stir drained tapioca into vanilla mixture. Cook, stirring often, until tapioca pearls are clear and just tender, 3 to 6 minutes.

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Tapioca

Vanilla

Let pudding cool, then chill, stirring occasionally, at least 1 1/4 hours.

Remove vanilla bean and stir in more milk if pudding seems too thick.

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Vanilla Bean

Milk

Spoon pudding into tall glasses. Top with toasted coconut and fresh fruit.

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Fresh Fruit

Coconut

*Find small pearl tapioca in a grocery store's baking aisle or Asian food aisle, or buy it at an Asian market. Get large-flake coconut at a natural-foods store and toast it in a 350 oven until light golden, 3 to 4 minutes.

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Coconut Flakes