How to Cook Yummy Flan

How to Cook Yummy Flan

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Flan. In a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, melt sugar until liquefied and golden in color. Flan is a traditional Spanish/Hispanic dessert that can be dressed up any way from chocolate to traditional. This flan is simple, yet creamy and smooth.

Flan Combine cream, milk and salt in heavy medium saucepan. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into cream mixture; add bean. Flan, or crème caramel, is a creamy custard dessert topped with caramel that's popular in Mexico, Spain and many Latin American countries. You can cook Flan using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Flan

  1. You need 2 of eggs.
  2. You need 250 ml of whole milk.
  3. It's 40 g of sugar.
  4. It's A few of drops of vanilla essence.

It's known for its smooth and creamy consistency that's achieved by cooking the custard in a water bath, or a bain-marie or baño-maría. Doing so creates steam in the oven which gently and evenly. My family loves Flan, I usually bake it in a round cake pan, But you can use ramekins. This recipe is NOT a hard as it looks.

Flan step by step

  1. Put the eggs and the sugar in a bowl, and mix until the yolks have blended with the whites and the sugar.
  2. Slowly add the milk (cold) to the mix, pouring 1/5 at a time and mixing in between pours.
  3. Add vanilla essence (to taste, I use 10 drops or a teaspoon) and mix.
  4. Pour mix into small containers (50ml to 100ml in size), using a sieve not only to remove the parts that didn’t mix well, but to prevent air bubbles to form in the mix.
  5. Cook in microwave in intervals of 30 seconds, checking for its consistency each time the timer finishes. It should be around 2 min 30 sec total, or 5 cycles, but this varies from microwave to microwave.
  6. Once cooked, let the flan rest 30 minutes over the counter, and then move to the fridge for at least another 30 minutes.
  7. Enjoy with a spoonful of dulce de leche for an Argentine twist.

For best results make Flan a day ahead to let the caramel form a slightly liquefied layer. Time does not include cooling time. Flan (also called crème caramel or caramel custard) is a custard dessert with a layer of caramel sauce. Flan has been a staple of Mexican and Latin American cuisine since Spaniards brought it to Mexico during the Spanish occupation. Bake your way around the world with these other globally-inspired baking recipes.