Self made Pumpkin Pudding

The whole pumpkin weighted 1.7kg. I had used 1kg for Pumpkin cake.. next, what should I do with the 600++gm? Thinking of making Pumpkin bread, but this morning after breakfast we already bought a lot of bread home. Gosh! total of 13 pieces (after counting), now still have 10 pieces left. Plus the pumpkin cake that I just made. How to finish? After mush consideration, I had decided to make Pumpkin pudding instead, which we can store for tea time.

Here is my pumpkin pudding. You must be wondering why different colour, right? Tell u later.. :)

Ingredients
600gm   Pumpkin
6 nos      Egg
80gm     Sugar
1can       Evaporate milk (it's less then 400ml), I add a bit of water to make it 450ml
1tsp        Vanilla Essence

Caramel topping (Optional)
1 cup of sugar
Sightly more then 3/4 cup of Hot Water
*The proportion is 100gm of sugar to 80ml of water

Methods:
1. Cut the pumpkin into cubes and steam. Smash it (I didn't blend).
2. Stir in the sugar with egg. Don't need to beat too much because you are not baking cake.  The purpose of mixing the sugar into the egg is to prevent the egg being cooked by the boiling milk later. So, make sure you mix them well.
3. Bring 450ml milk to boil (not really need to boil, once you see some bubbles from the side can already). This step is basically sterilising the milk.
4. Pour the milk into the egg mixture slowly... as the egg had been mixed well with egg the egg inside won't cook. However, you need to be careful, if you boiled the milk too much, you may want to make it cool down a little before adding it on because you won't want to cook the egg now :)
5. Add in the pumpkin puree. Stir really well..
6. Preheat Oven 180 degree celcius and bake for 30min. Since my oven cannot fit in all the pudding, I steam the left over cups. This is the reason why there are 2 different colour of pudding in the picture above. The Steam one have lighter colour while the baked one are in dark orange surface.

Methods for cooking syrup
1. Pour the sugar into a small pot under medium fire. Stir till the sugar were melted, it will turn brown.
2. Add in Hot Water. Must be really careful while adding in the hot water because the melted sugar is very sticky and hot. Gradually add in the water, stir until the water is incorporated.

Top the pudding with the caramel while serve. It's really delicious. Yummy!