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This is easy to make Mexican Flan recipe, it is made using whole eggs, condensed and evaporated milk. Covered with a light sugar syrup. It can also be made using cream cheese or coconut milk. for a different taste and texture.

FLAN RECIPE MEXICAN STYLE

Who doesn’t like to have dessert? And what about one that is easy to make ahead of time and your family will love?
If you do, this is an easy dessert to prepare, as easy as opening some cans and cracking some eggs. This is not the old traditional way of making the Flan a Mexican Flan, which is prepared as a custard where milk, vanilla, and sugar are slowly simmered. But, this is how nowadays we make it, and this flan recipe has been well-known in México for years, using canned milk.

Mexican Flan Recipe

Flan, also known as Flan Napolitano, is a popular dessert in several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Countries like Puerto Rico, Venezuela
This was my teenage son’s first time making this dessert. He has been asking me to make it for a couple of days when I told him that it was so easy to make it that he could make it himself. He couldn’t believe how quickly the flan was already in the oven a few minutes later.

For those of you that do not have an oven, you can make this flan cooking it inside a large pot at medium-heat in a water bath. You can also cook it using your Instant Pot, place it on top of the insert rack and cook for 15 minutes.

How to Make Mexican Flan Recipe

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Instructions:

• In a medium-size saucepan place the sugar and water, bring to a boil in medium-high heat until sugar dissolves, when sugar dissolves reduce heat and keep simmering until the syrup gets a light brown-caramel color. The caramel will continue to cook even if you remove the saucepan from the heat.
• This will take about 10 minutes. Pour the caramel in your oven proof pan, swirling the caramel to cover the bottom of the pan evenly. Let cool. (Please check the ingredients list below)

• Place the rest of the ingredients in a blender and process until you have a smooth mixture.

• Pour mixture slowly into prepared pan for the water bath and cover with aluminum foil. For the hot bath. Place the pan inside a large baking pan. Add warm water to the pan until it reaches about 3/4 inch. Bake in a preheated oven at 325 degrees for about 50 minutes or until flan looks firm as in the picture below. Flan will keep cooking while it cools, so do not let longer in the oven. Let it cool.

• Once the flan has cooled, run a knife between the flan and baking pan. Place a large serving plate on top of the pan and invert with a  quick move to avoid any liquid caramel to spill from the pan. Slice, serve and enjoy.

You can use cream cheese in the mixture, the texture will be creamier than the one in the top picture that does not include the cheese. Any way you make it, it’s delicious. Well, you already know that.

EASY FLAN RECIPE

This is easy to make Mexican Flan recipe, it is made using whole eggs, condensed and evaporated milk. Covered with a light sugar syrup. It can also be made using cream cheese or coconut milk, for a different taste and texture.

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Course: Desserts

Cuisine: Mexican

Servings: 8

Author: Mely Martínez - Mexico in my Kitchen

Ingredients

• 1 can of condensed milk*
• 1 can of evaporated milk**
• 6 eggs
• 1 8oz pkg. of cream cheese (optional, see note)***
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 1 cup of sugar
• 2 tablespoons of water

Instructions

• In a medium-size saucepan place the sugar and water, bring to a boil in a high heat until sugar dissolves, when sugar dissolves reduce heat and keep boiling until the syrup gets a light brown-caramel color. This will take about 10 minutes. Pour the caramel in your oven proof pan, swirling the caramel to cover the bottom of the pan evenly. Let cool.
• Place the rest of the ingredients in a blender and process until you have a smooth mixture.
• Pour mixture slowly into prepared pan and cover with aluminum foil. For the hot bath. Place the pan inside a large baking pan. Add warm water to the pan until it reaches about 3/4 inch. 
• Bake in a preheated oven at 325 degrees for about 50 minutes or until flan looks firm as in the picture below. Flan will keep cooking while it cools, so do not let longer in the oven. Let it cool.4. Once the flan has cooled run, a knife between the flan and baking pan.
• Place a large serving plate on top of the pan and invert with a quick move to avoid any liquid caramel to spill from the pan. Slice, serve and enjoy.

Notes

* Sweetened condensed milk according to the can is measured by weight at 14 OZ/397grams, about 300 ml., this will be about 1 1/4 cup.

** The Evaporated milk has 12 fluid ounces that equal 1 1/2 cups. (354ml)

*** I do not always have the cream cheese at home and prepare the recipe just omitting the cheese. The flan still come out delicious.

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Recipe in spanish https://www.mexicoenmicocina.com/receta-flan-mexicano/

¡Buen provecho!
Mely,

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