Bread pudding

Ingredients 

1. Milk - 1.5 cup
2. Sugar - 0.3 cup
3. Butter - 1 tbsp
4. Bread - 4 or 5 slices
5. Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
6. Egg-2
7. Salt - pinch
8. Cashews (optional) - 5
9. Raisins (optional)-5 

Ingredients for caramelization

1. Sugar - 3 tbsp heaped
2. Water - 3 tbsp
3. Lemon juice - 0.5 tsp

Procedure 
1. Take a dry pan and coat the inside with butter and keep aside
2. Make caramel from sugar
1. In a pan add the sugar and water and heat it.
2. Sugar will dissolve in the water.
3. Stir the liquid sugar
4. Add the lemon juice
5. Keep stirring till the colour of sugar turns light brown.
6. Switch off the stove.
3. Pour the caramel into the buttered pan
4. Boil milk and sugar
5. Break the bread into pieces 
6. Add the bread into the boiled milk and keep it aside for 5 minutes to cool.
7. In a mixie, pulse the bread and milk mixture, egg, vanilla essence, and salt till it becomes a smooth custard.
8. Pour this custard into the pan containing the caramel
9. Add cashews and raisins if required.
10. Close the pan with a lid
    
11. Heat water in idli cooker.
12. When the water is hot, place the pan in the cooker
13. Cook for 20-25 minutes
14. Open the lid of the pan and check if the pudding is of the right consistency. If it is still liquid, boil for some more time.
15. Take out the pan from the cooker and allow it to cool for five minutes.
16. Run a knife over the edge of the pan
17. Flip the pan into a serving plate. The pudding will drop into the plate nicely and the caramel will be on top of the pudding.
18. The pudding can be served hot or after cooling in a refrigerator for a minimum of an hour.