Flan Recipe
This delicious Mexican Flan recipe from El Cholo restaurant, with its rich and creamy custard that’s covered with caramel sauce, is a really easy to make dessert that everyone will love! A creamy dessert to finish off your meal.
Servings 10 servings
Calories 324kcal
Equipment
- 10 ramekins
- Large, deep baking dish (approximately 18 x 13 -inches)
Ingredients
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 5 tablespoons water
- 32 ounces whole milk
- 6 large eggs whisked, room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375° F.
- Make sure your ramekins fit into the large baking dish, and fill the dish with hot water about halfway up the sides of the ramekins.
- Place the sugar in a small saucepan and drizzle the water around the edges. Do not stir. Heat on high. Watch the sugar change color to light brown mahogany (about 5 to 8 minutes), then remove from heat. Carefully spoon about 1-2 tablespoons of caramel into the bottom of each ramekin.
- In a large saucepan, heat milk until it comes to a boil, and then remove from heat. Whisk eggs and sugar together and add to heated milk. Add vanilla.
- Add the liquid custard to the ramekins, pouring it over the caramel.
- Bake the ramekins in the pan (with the bain-marie) for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove ramekins from bain-marie. Cool completely before inverting onto a plate to serve.
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Nutrition
Calories: 324kcal | Carbohydrates: 64g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 109mg | Sodium: 73mg | Potassium: 174mg | Sugar: 64g | Vitamin A: 290IU | Calcium: 127mg | Iron: 0.5mg
