REAL Banana Puddin FROM SCRATCH!!! Yes, We're Cooking PUDDING!
My family loves a good, cooked homemade pudding. In this southern-style banana pudding recipe from scratch, we don’t use jello pudding mix and cool whip or condensed milk... we grab a saucepan, ingredients and get stirring! Want to learn how to make a banana pudding? It’s actually really simple to make and the flavor is amazing! Most recipes call for sweetened condensed milk, not this one. I never knew to use condensed milk OR jello pudding for that matter until I left for college. I always felt like that was DIET pudding. But... to each their own. ☺️ I’ll compare some more puddings at a later date but this is my favorite recipe and I stick by it!
Ingredients
- 3 Cups White Sugar
- 6 TBS All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 8 Large egg yolks
- 6 cups Milk (I use whole milk)
- 1/2 cup Unsalted butter (1 stick)
- 1 TBS Vanilla
- Nilla wafers (I use 2 boxes)
- Slightly Ripe Bananas (3-4 bananas)
Instructions
- Grab a LARGE saucepan and add your sugar, flour, and salt. Stir until NO clumps. NO HEAT!!!
- In a separate bowl, separate the egg yolks from the whites
- In a tall bowl, mix milk and egg yolks until well combined
- Pour the milk mixture into the sugar mixture in a saucepan. Stir until smooth!
- Drop a stick of butter into a saucepan and turn on medium heat.
- Stir sparingly as the butter melts. Once the butter melts, you MUST KEEP STIRRING until the mixture starts to boil.
- Once the mixture boils for 2 minutes, turn off the heat. Dip the spoon into the pudding. If the pudding sticks to the spoon, then you're cooking!
- Once the heat is off, add vanilla and stir into pudding.
- The pudding will thicken once it cools!
- As your pudding is cooling, cut (slightly over-ripe) bananas into 1/4" to 1/2" rounds (depends on your preference) :)
- In a baking dish (I use (2) 9"x 13" or full 21"x13") add a layer of Nila Wafers (or a cookie of your choosing), cut bananas, and a thin layer of pudding. Like a dessert lasagna! :) If the pudding is still warm, it will continue to thicken as it cools. Continue the layering process until topped with your cookie.
- Sit your banana pudding aside until completely cooled and ENJOY!!!
- Please pace yourself. This is a RICH dessert! :)