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    Ok my wife just made some flan yesterday and today. I figured I would share the recipe with you guys. Yesterdays turned out great but todays got pulled a little to soon. We are still learning the convection oven thing. but here is the basic recipe that they usse in the part of mexico where she is from.

    1-12oz can of carnation evaporated milk
    1-14oz can of la lechera (made by nestle)
    4 eggs
    2 teaspoons vanilla(or to taste)
    1 cup sugar

    add everything but sugar and mix well. (she uses the blender)
    boil one medium pot of water

    once water boils place in a pan big enough to fit a glass pie pan and the water level needs to be about half way up the pie pan.

    in another pan put sugar in and stir constantly until it carmelizes.

    next pour carmelized sugar in to pie pan then add the rest of the ingredients and place in the oven at 350 for 1 hour. elevation may change the times a little bit.

    you can do the normal tooth pick check for doneness.next remove and flip on to a plate. sometimes you need to go around the edges with a knife first. After this let cool for around 20 minutes in the fridge or over night.

    Now tonights didn't get cooked long enough and the carmelized sugar stay in the pan after we flipped it out on to the plate. Any of you with a convection oven we think the time is around 40 minutes or so to cook. Here are some pics right after finished. I don't have any of the process because I didn't think about posting this till after.



    here you can see a fork test.


    after flip on to plate and ready for the fridge


    Jerod
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    no water bath? still looks good!
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    • #3
      Not sure what you mean by water bath. Maybe my instructions didn't come out clear. The boiled water goes in the bigger pan and then the pie pan with the flan in it goes inside the big pan. Then in to the oven.

      if this isn't what your talkin about chef let me know maybe I can teach my wifee something.
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      • #4
        nope you got it .........i mean she's got it!
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        • #5
          I used to have a couple of flan pans with the fluted sides (yard sale find). After storing them for several years they went back in a yard sale. Wish I still had them now. I never had a good recipe. Yours looks good! Thanks for the recipe.
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          • #6
            That sounds really good....And looks tasty......

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            • #7
              looks like a giant creme brulee.

              What's this la lechera stuff then ?
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              • #8
                It is the sweeten condensed milk that is used by mexican over here in these parts.
                Originally posted by curious aardvark View Post
                looks like a giant creme brulee.

                What's this la lechera stuff then ?
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                • #9
                  ah - thought it might be.
                  we just call it condensed milk :-)
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by curious aardvark View Post
                    ah - thought it might be.
                    we just call it condensed milk :-)
                    It's different, sweeter and sort or caremelized.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by moselle View Post
                      It's different, sweeter and sort or caremelized.
                      yep that's the stuff.

                      If you boil a tin for about 40 mins and then leave to cool (never open till tin is cold) it turns into a tin of toffee/fudge - we uses that as the base for a banoffee pie :-)
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                      • #12
                        ...good ol' banoffe pie.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by curious aardvark View Post
                          looks like a giant creme brulee.
                          more like a creme caramel.........
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by curious aardvark View Post
                            yep that's the stuff.

                            If you boil a tin for about 40 mins and then leave to cool (never open till tin is cold) it turns into a tin of toffee/fudge - we uses that as the base for a banoffee pie :-)
                            Yep! that is good old dulce de leche... YUM! love that on EVERYTHING!

                            Alex, flan is a bit different in taste and especially texture to creme brulee, its a bit firmer.. still delicious!
                            Thanks for the recipe, copy and pasted, I have never even thought about making it... till now! now break out with the rice pudding recipe! ;)



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                            • #15
                              any idea why it's called 'flan' ?

                              Over here a flan is a filling served in a sponge or pastry case.

                              yep chefrob's right creme caramel was probably what I meant :-)
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