Flan - Latin American Recipe

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Flan

🌍 Latin American, Spain (nationwide) Difficulty: ●●●○○



Ingredients

  • (Caramel) 150g sugar
  • 2 tbsp water. Custard: 500ml whole milk
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 100g sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Method

  1. Step 1 — Caramel: heat sugar and water without stirring until amber. Pour into 6 ramekins.
  2. Warming — Warm milk with vanilla. Whisk eggs, yolks, sugar until combined.
  3. Step 3 — Slowly pour warm milk into egg mixture, stirring. Do not aerate.
  4. Straining — Strain into ramekins over caramel.
  5. Baking — Bake in bain-marie at 160°C (320°F) for 40 min until just set.
  6. Cooling — Cool, then chill minimum 2 hours. Invert to serve.