Chocolate Pudding topped with Pistachios and Strawberries

Four glass cups with chocolate pudding, topped with crushed pistachios and sliced strawberries.

Chocolate Pudding topped with Pistachios and Strawberries

This chocolate pudding recipe is based on an old fashioned recipe for pudding. I love to top it off with pistachios and strawberries which balance the complex flavors of chocolate beautifully.

Course Dessert

Cuisine Mediterranean

Keyword chocolate pudding

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Chilling time 2

Total Time 2 20

Servings servings

Calories 530kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

1 glass mixing bowl
1 Whisk
1 medium saucepan
1 Ladle

Ingredients

3 cups milk divided, 2 cups and 1 cup
2 egg yolks
1 tbsp vanilla extract
¾ cup sugar
⅓ cup cornstarch for not so thick pudding, use ¼ cup
½ cup cocoa powder unsweetened
1 tbsp butter
1 cup pistachios shelled
fresh strawberries for topping and garnish

Instructions

For the egg mix, add 2 egg yolks, 1 cup of milk and 1 tbsp of vanilla extract to a glass mixing bowl, whisk to incorporate and set aside.
Add a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add 2 cups of milk, add sugar and whisk until sugar is dissolved. Add cornstarch and then cocoa powder. When adding cocoa powder, do it slowly because powder is light and can spill everywhere. Whisk to incorporate everything. As the cocoa mix is getting heated up, lower the stovetop heat. Once it's hot, you'll see bubbles starting to form on the surface (not boiling yet and it's not thick yet).
Bring glass bowl close to saucepan. Add a ladle of chocolate mix from saucepan to glass bowl, mix vigorously to temper the egg mix. Continue with 1-2 more ladles. Then pour the egg mix into the saucepan and whisk everything together.
Whisk slowly but continuously, this will prevent any lumps from forming.
Once pudding starts getting thick, it will thicken up fast. Turn heat off and remove saucepan from stovetop. Using a ladle serve the pudding in the glasses or cups you'll use for serving.
Let the pudding cool a little over the counter while you crush the pistachios and slice the strawberries. My personal preference is 1-2 tbsps of pistachios per cup with 2 slices of strawberries but you can obviously add these 2 toppings to taste. I also serve a plate of strawberries in the middle of the table for everyone to take more while they enjoy the pudding. Enjoy:).

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Notes

Total time is 2 hours and 20 minutes but 2 hours of that is chilling in the refrigerator so you aren't cooking or doing anything active during that time for the recipe.
This is a rich chocolate pudding, tastes like a dark chocolate pudding is using the right cocoa. So I want to make sure you know you're in for a flavor treat:).
Serving cups are about 4 ounces in size.

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