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Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Ultimate Flan (Crème Caramel)

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Birdie Caldwell
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Flan (Crème Caramel)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, flan (crème caramel). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Flan (Crème Caramel) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Flan (Crème Caramel) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To make the crème caramel, mix the evaporated milk, condensed milk, eggs, vanilla and salt in a food processor until smooth. Pour over the back of a spoon, over the top of the cake batter. 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.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have flan (crème caramel) using 4 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Flan (Crème Caramel):
  1. Take 1 egg
  2. Prepare 1 small glass of milk
  3. Prepare 1 desert spoon of caramel
  4. Make ready 2 desert spoon of sugar

The water outside will create steam and bake the custard without curdling. The Spaniards brought the recipe to Mexico. Simply put, flan is the Spanish version of French crème caramel. There are many regional variations of flan recipe: Spanish, Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Argentina, etc.

Steps to make Flan (Crème Caramel):
  1. In a metal flan mould (you can buy them in most Ferreterías or in the kitchen utensils department of a department store or large supermarket), burn the desert spoon of sugar with one dst spoon of water. Stir over a strong heat until the sugar and water becomes a brown coloured caramel. If you want to skip this step, you can find ready-made caramel in most Spanish supermarkets.
  2. Beat the egg with the 2 desert spoons of sugar. Beat well, add the glass of milk, and beat some more.
  3. Pour the mixture into the metal mould over the caramel, and put the mould (or moulds if you have made various) into a pan of simmering water. Make sure the level of water is lower than the moulds, so that no water spills into the flan mixture. Let the flan cook like this until it is ready. To test, put a sharp knife into the middle of the mixture. If it is clean when you take it out, the flan is cooked.

Simply put, flan is the Spanish version of French crème caramel. There are many regional variations of flan recipe: Spanish, Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Argentina, etc. Some flan recipes call for sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk. Combine the milk, cream, sugar, and salt in a heavy bottomed saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Remove the pan from the heat.

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