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Hi! welcome to Spanish Cooking. Today we will prepare
egg custard pudding or "flan de huevo" It has been consumed in each household in
Spain for decades
when I was a child I had lots of it super easy to do and delicious
so first we need to prepare some caramel. In a small pot
heat 3 tablespoons of caster sugar with a couple tablespoons of water
don't touch it
just wait until it starts bubbling, then wait until it gets some brown color
so you will see that it takes relatively
short time. Don't touch it
just wait. Then, when you're happy with the color
you can add some lemon juice drops to avoid sudden solidification
so you will have more time to pour it into molds. Now you can move it
and turn off the heat, just
put all the caramel being in your moulds you don't need to distribute it evenly as
afterwards when cooking in the cups the custard, it will be liquid again
Now heat 750 milliliters
milk and add some vanilla drops
if you like. I think it provides a nice
flavor. Once it's
about boiling just turn off the heat and that's it.
Now in another bowl crack 5 eggs
and beat them which 8 to 10 tablespoons
cast sugar until the sugar is dissolved
you can adjust the amount of sugar depending on your taste
I think that as the custard is consumed cold you need to
quite big amount of sugar to have nice flavor, otherwise is
like tasteless. And now you can add your
milk but do it in batches not all together because otherwise
the egg would be cooked. You don't want this
so slowly... And now
you can put your moulds on a tray filled with warm water enough
for half covering the moulds and fill the moulds
with the mixture. So first I roughly fill the moulds
and then I add just the amount of liquid so each mould has the same
and a nice trick for getting nice custer without dried borders is to cover
each mold with
aluminum foil. Just takes a minute and it's a nice trick
in the meantime of course preheat you oven to 200 degrees Celsius
and once it's warm
you can put your custard
in the oven for 20 minutes or until they are completely
cooked. How you know it? Well, after twenty minutes
take them out and check with a knife
yes, uncover one of
the molds and check with a knife. If it remains clean
then it's ready.. Let's see...
yeah it's ready so now you need to let them
cool for at least two to three hours in the fridge
and then you can taste it. I use to help myself
by scrapping the borders with a knife as you see here and
voilĂ ! your egg custard
pudding is ready! The result this really impressive
and it's very easy to do so I hope you try it out
And of course don't forget to enjoy it! See you soon!