Ingredients
Equipment
Method
Making the vanille vla
- Pour the Liter of milk into a heavy bottom saucepan.
- Cut the vanilla beans in half, scrape out the seeds, and add the seeds and beans to the pot of milk.
- Over medium heat, stirring frequently, bring the milk to a gentle boil.
- Once the milk boils, turn down the heat, and let it simmer for 15 minutes. Make sure to stir occasionally, to prevent milk from burning/sticking to the bottom of the pot.
- Once the milk is done simmering, remove the vanilla beans. Move quickly to the next step. Note: I will rinse them completely to remove any milk residue. Then I'll let them dry completely. Once they're dried, I add them to a jar of sugar, to make vanilla sugar.
- In a large bowl, combine sugar, cornstarch, 100ml milk, and salt. Whish together until there are no more lumps in the milk.
- Add the egg yolks, and whisk them through until fully combined.
- Get the hot milk, and while continually whisking the egg mixture, slowly add a small ladle at a time of the hot milk into the egg mixture. This will temper the eggs, to prevent them from curdling/cooking. Don't rush this. Repeat until you've added approximately half of the hot milk to the egg mixture.
- Strain the milk/egg mixture into the pot of hot milk, and over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, cook the mixture until it is just shy of your desired consistency. Vanillevla should be thick enough to not pour out in a stream, but rather in globs. note: Your custard will set more once it's in the fridge, so stop before you hit your final consistency.
- Pour the custard into a clean glass bowl. Let it cool down for a few minutes, and then cover it with plastic wrap. Make sure the plastic wrap touches the custard (to prevent a skin from forming), and place it in fridge for at least 2 hours.
Make the fruit sauce
- In the jar of a blender, combine the water, sugar, lemon juice, strawberries and raspberries.
- Blend on high until it's a smooth sauce.
- To make sure there are no seeds in the sauce, pour it through a strainer into a glass storage container. Let cool in the fridge.
Assembling the vlaflip
- Remove the vanille vla from the fridge. Remove the plastic wrap and stir/whisk it through until it's loose.
- Fill a 200ml (7oz) glass halfway with the vanille vla.
- Add a generous amount of the fruit sauce on top of the vla.
- Top it off with plain Greek yogurt. Repeat with the rest of the custard. The base recipe should make approximately 6 servings. Note: You will have a good amount of fruit sauce leftover. I recommend pouring it in an icecube tray, and freezing it.
