Caramel Flan
"A dear friend gave me this recipe and I think she makes the best flan in the world. It is smooth and has so much "flan" flavor because of the caramel, yet it is just boiled-down sugar. This is not hard to make; it just looks involved."
Original is 4-5 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (356.8 g)
- Calories 702.9
- Total Fat - 35 g
- Saturated Fat - 19.8 g
- Cholesterol - 339.4 mg
- Sodium - 418.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 83.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.3 g
- Sugars - 63.3 g
- Protein - 13.7 g
- Calcium - 196.8 mg
- Iron - 1.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 7.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
SYRUP: Place the 3/4 cup sugar in a large skillet and cook over medium heat till sugar melts and forms a light brown syrup (don't let it burn); stir to blend.
Step 2
While this is melting, put a shallow 8 1/4" baking dish into a 325 degree oven to heat so that after the above sugar has become a syrup you can IMMEDIATELY pour it into the heated dish and holding the dish with pot holders, quickly rotate to cover bottom completely and a little way up the side----set aside but DO NOT turn the 325 degree oven off.
Step 3
FLAN: Oven is at 325 degrees and all ready for you.
Step 4
In medium saucepan put the milk and cream and heat just till bubbles form around the edge of pan.
Step 5
In large bowl whisk eggs; add the 1/2 cup sugar, salt, vanilla; mix well
Step 6
Gradually stir the hot milk mixture into this, stirring all the while.
Step 7
Pour into the prepared dish with the syrup; set dish in shallow pan and pour boiling water around the dish to 1/2" deep.
Step 8
Bake in the 325 degree oven for about 35-40 minutes or until a silver knife comes out clean; let cool.
Step 9
Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or better yet, ovenight.
Step 10
To serve, run a spatula around edge of dish to loosen; invert onto a shallow serving dish with a lip to catch that wonderful syrup.
Step 11
Gently shake to release and hold the dish over the flan for a couple of minutes to get as much syrup dripped out as you can.
Tips
No special items needed.
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