Pumpkin Flan

Pumpkin Flan

Pumpkin Flan

By Yvonne Machado on RecetasPuertoRico.com

A great puerto rican meal can’t end without a delicious homemade flan.  Flan is really a custard and puerto ricans have plethora of techniques to prepare it.  Regardless of softer or harder consistencies, one thing for sure, this is a favorite dessert. Now that we are nearing the holiday seasons, making this recipe is not a bad idea.

(Versión en Español)

Ingredients (Caramel)

  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 2 tablespoons of water

Procedure (Caramel) (Quick Version)

In a microwave-resistant cup, mix the sugar with water and cook in the microwave, over high temperature for 5-7 minutes. Pour the caramel into the mold you will use for your flan.

Ingredients (Flan)

  • 1 cup of pumpkin (peeled, seeded, boiled and mashed)
  • 1¾ cups of sugar
  • 1 can of evaporated milk
  • 1 small cal of condensed milk
  • 3 to 5 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon of real vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt

Procedure (Flan)

  1. Preheat your oven to 350º.
  2. In a blender, add all of your ingredients and mix at medium speed for about a minute, until you can see some foaming on top of the mix.
  3. Add the mix to the caramelized mold you previously prepared.
  4. Place the mold inside a larger mold with water in order to make your own bain marie.
  5. Loseley cover the mold with foil paper.
  6. Place the bain marie inside the oven and bake for 1 hour.
  7. To check if your flan is ready, insert a clean knife in the middle of the flan.  If it comes out dirty, your flan needs more time inside the oven, if it comes out clean, your flan is ready.
  8. If ready, remove the flan from the oven and let it cool down for a few minutes.
  9. To serve, carefully place the serving dish over the flan mold, flip the flan mold quickly but carefully.
  10. Remove the flan mold.
  11. Your flan is now ready to present and serve.

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