Recipe: Tasty Spanish flan or Creme caramel

Spanish flan or Creme caramel. Microwave the milk with sugar in a bowl untill hot. Delicious Spanish flan, everyone will love it! Simple and the traditional way of making flan.

In fact, it is considered the national dessert of Spain as this pudding can be found on virtually every restaurant menu. Spain and Portugal have a Moorish inheritance of very sweet egg-rich desserts. Flan is the Spanish name for vanilla egg custard topped with caramel sauce. You can have Spanish flan or Creme caramel using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Spanish flan or Creme caramel

1. You need 460 g of hot milk.
2. You need 4 of eggs.
3. Prepare of Vanilla.
4. It's 100 g of sugar.

Flan makes a great finish to any meal because, even though it is sweet, it's also a light dessert. This is a great one to make in advance as it really does need the time to set up overnight anyway and is meant to be served chilled. To keep the Flan fresh while in the fridge, just over it nice and tight with cling wrap. Flan (Creme Caramel) a very popular dessert inherited from the Spaniards and common in all Latin America also deserved to be in our collection.

Spanish flan or Creme caramel instructions

1. First, in a sauce pan put 100 g sugar (except 3 tbs) and 3 tbs of water on medium heat. Don't whisk. Heat slowly untill caramelized.
2. Pour in a 20 cm non stick tray..
3. Microwave the milk with sugar in a bowl untill hot. Whisk eggs and vanilla well.Filter while pouring into the milk sugar mix.Then Whisk lightly untill mixed..
4. Filter again and pour the liquid into the tray..
5. Bring another bigger tray, add boiled water untill it comes half way up the sides of the flan tray. Bake at 180 for 20-30 minutes. You can check with a toothpick after 20 minutes. Check regularly to be sure that there is enough water around the tray..
6. Take it out and leave it to cool. Put it in the fridge for 2 hours and serve cold after inverting it..
7. Since I had a failed cake, I stuck a layer to the flan and it was delicious 😍.

In the English-speaking world, this dessert is better known by its French name Crème Caramel (flan is also a word of French origin adopted into Spanish). Crème caramel (French: [kʁɛm kaʁaˈmɛl]), flan, caramel custard, or caramel pudding is a custard dessert with a layer of clear caramel sauce. According to Wikipedia, flan (creme caramel) is enjoyed around the world. Many countries, including Mexico, have national variations. The word "flan" refers to a flat open pie and derives from Old English.