Khanom Maw Geang

 

Ingredients
2 cups of cooked and mashed taro (Pueg')*
6 eggs
1 cup of coconut milk (top cream)
1/2 cups of white sugar
1 cup of palm (or coconut) sugar
4 table spoons of corn starch
1 table spoon of deep-fried thin wedged onion * can be substituted with muang bean or pumpkin.

Directions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Beat eggs in the blender for 2-3 minutes; Add sugar and coconut milk, go on blending for another 2-3 minutes. Add taro, still go on blending. Finally, add corn starch and mix it together with other blended ingredients.

In a pot, heat this mixture with low heat, slowly stir it until the mixture becomes thickened. Remove from the stove and pour it on a pie pan. Make sure that the pan is of the right size so that it allows the mixture to lay about 1 inch thick.
Bake for 35-4O minutes. Remove and top it with the fried onion shreds while the custard is still hot. Some put the onion on it a few minutes before the custard pan was taken out from the oven.

The custard or Kha'NOm+Moo"Kaeng should be left cool before serving. Cut the custard in 2" x 2" square and put it on a nice saucer with a small spoon for an individual serving.

To prepare the onion shreds, first peel red small onion, wash it with water and cut it into thin wedges. Heat two table spoons of cooking oil in a wok. When the oil is heated, put in the wedged onion and fry it back and forth until it becomes golden brown. Take the shreds out of the pan. Leave them on a plated paved with a paper towel to let the oil soaked off.