- Yields: about 2 cups
- Ingredient Notes: Vegetarian, Corn-free, Gluten-free, Peanut-free, Soy-free, Tree nut-free
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups low-fat milk
- 1 (3-inch) piece vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 4 large egg yolks
Directions
Pour milk into a saucepan. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean; add seeds and bean to milk. Cook over medium heat for 6 minutes (do not boil). Discard bean. Remove from the heat.
Combine sugar and yolks in a bowl, stirring with a whisk until blended. Gradually stir milk into the bowl using a whisk. Return mixture to the pan.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thinly coats the back of a spoon. Pour mixture into a bowl. Cover and chill (mixture will thicken as it cools).
Use with recipe Fruit Ambrosia with Crème Anglaise
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