How to Prepare Tasty Leche Flan

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How to Prepare Tasty Leche Flan Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Leche Flan. Leche Flan is a dessert made-up of eggs and milk with a soft caramel on top. It resembles crème caramel and caramel custard. This delicious dessert is known throughout the world.

Filipino leche flan is a rich custard made with egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk served with a syrupy caramel topping.

Leche flan is a delicious egg-based dessert popular in the Philippines, where it is served on celebratory occasions.

It's a perfect pairing of sweet, rich caramel and creamy custard.

You can cook Leche Flan using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Leche Flan

  1. Prepare 10 of egg yolks (from large eggs).

  2. It’s 14 oz of condensed milk (397g).

  3. It’s 1 tsp of vanilla extract.

  4. You need 1 1/2 cup of granulated white sugar.

Leche flan is traditionally steamed in the Philippines (where ovens were uncommon for many years), but baking it in a water bath is a great alternative if you don't have a steamer.

The Ultimate Crème Caramel (Leche Flan)Spoonful Of Butter.

Leche flan is popular Filipino dessert composed of custard atop a pool of easy homemade caramel, baked in a flan mold to creamy perfection.

Leche Flan is the ultimate sweet treat!

Leche Flan instructions

  1. Prepare steamer by boiling 2 liters of water..

  2. Set molds on the stove under low-heat setting. Add sugar and gently swirl using until it caramelizes. Set aside to cool and harden on a flat surface..

  3. Whisk yolks in a bowl. Add condensed milk and vanilla extract. Mix thoroughly..

  4. Pour mixture into molds. Cover with foil..

  5. Steam for 20 mins..

  6. Using a knife, thin spatula, trace lining of molds to loosen the flan. Put serving plate on top and turn upside down. Tapping the bottom of the mold helps to transfer flan to the plate..

  7. Set aside to cool then serve. (Best served cool.).

Rich, smooth, and creamy with golden caramel topping, this classic Filipino custard is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.

Before baking the Leche Flan, place the moulds on a larger baking pan half filled with very hot water.

To serve: run a thin knife around the edges of the mould to loosen the Leche Flan.

The Filipino version of crème caramel, the leche flan is a cherished dessert enjoyed on Christmas and festive occasions throughout the year.

I had a post about leche flan in my old kusina, but the how-to's were in a geocities page which is Some think that egg whites prevent the leche flan from turning very creamy.