Simple Leche Flan Recipe

Description:

Leche Flan is a dessert made-up of eggs and milk with a soft caramel on top. It resembles créme caramel and caramel custard. This delicious dessert is known throughout the world. Although it contains high amount of risky components such as saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, and sugar so it is advisable to eat it moderately.

Tools and equipment:

Leche Flan Pan

Whisk

Strainer

Aluminum Foil

Steamer 

Tongs

Bowls

Llanera

Procedure:

• Using all the eggs, separate the yolk from the egg white (only egg yolks will be used).
• Place the egg yolks in a big bowl then mix them with a whisk
• Add the condensed milk and mix thoroughly
• Pour-in the evaporated milk and Vanilla extract. Mix well
• Put the mold (llanera) on top of the stove and heat using low fire
• Put-in the sugar on the mold and mix thoroughly until the solid sugar turns into liquid (caramel) having a light brown color.
• Spread the caramel (liquid sugar) evenly on the flat side of the mold
• Wait for 5 minutes then pour the egg yolk and milk mixture on the mold
• Cover the top of the mold using an Aluminum foil
• Steam the mold with egg and milk mixture for 30 to 35 minutes.
• After steaming, let the temperature cool down then refrigerate