Recipe: Perfect Leche flan

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Recipe: Perfect 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 have Leche flan using 5 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Leche flan

  1. It’s 8 of medium egg yolks.

  2. You need 1 can of condensed milk.

  3. It’s 1/2 cup of fresh milk.

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

  5. It’s 1 of water.

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. In a saucepan, mix sugar and water. Bring to a boil until the sugar caramelized..

  2. Pour caramelized sugar into aluminim moulds (any shape or size)..

  3. Let it cool and set aside..

  4. In a bowl, mix the egg yolks, condensed milk and fresh milk well by hand or by blender..

  5. Pour the mixture on top of the caramel on the aluminum mould about 2inches thick..

  6. Cover it with aluminum foil and steam for 40 minutes..

  7. Let cool then refrigerate..

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.