Chocolate and Malt Pudding

Puddings are good sources of potassium because their main ingredient, milk, is potassium-rich. Both the malted milk powder and the chocolate add small amounts of the mineral to this creamy dessert, which has 539 milligrams of potassium in each serving. If you like strong malt flavor, you can increase the malt powder to one cup. This recipe earned our Test Kitchens' highest rating.

Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients

• 2/3  cup  malted milk powder
• 1/3  cup  sugar
• 1/3  cup  cornstarch
• 1/8  teaspoon  salt
• 4  cups  1% low-fat milk
• 1/3  cup  semisweet chocolate chips
• 1  teaspoon  vanilla extract
• 8  malted milk ball candies (such as Whoppers), crushed

Preparation

Combine first 4 ingredients in a medium, heavy saucepan, stirring well with a whisk. Gradually add milk to sugar mixture, stirring constantly with a whisk until well blended. Place pan over medium heat, and bring to a boil. Cook for 1 minute or until thick, stirring constantly with a whisk. Remove from heat. Add chocolate chips, and stir until smooth. Stir in vanilla.

Pour pudding into a bowl; cover surface of pudding with plastic wrap. Chill. Remove plastic wrap; spoon 2/3 cup pudding into each of 6 bowls. Sprinkle each serving with 2 teaspoons crushed malted milk balls.

Nutritional Information

Calories:

305 (18% from fat)

Fat:

6g (sat 3.5g,mono 1.3g,poly 0.2g)

Protein:

8.3g

Carbohydrate:

54.3g

Fiber:

0.4g

Cholesterol:

13mg

Iron:

4.5mg

Sodium:

238mg

Calcium:

303mg