Leche Flan is great for dessert and some take this for snacks. Just a caution for diabetics, this recipe is high in sugar.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups thick coconut milk
- 6 egg yolks
- 4 egg whites
- 1 cup sugar, refined
- 1 cup brown sugar
Procedure:
- Dissolve brown sugar in 1/4 cup water and cook over moderate heat until the sugar browns, or caramelizes.
- Line a suitable mold with 3/4 of the caramelized syrup evenly, and set aside.
- Stir the milk into the remaining 1/4 of caramelized syrup.
- Place over low heat and stir continuously until all caramel is dissolved.
- Mix egg yolks and slightly beaten whites and beat lightly to mix thouroughly.
- Add sugar and lemon rind.
- Then add coconut milk with caramelized syrup and mix well.
- Strain through a cheese cloth and pour into the mold previously lined with caramel.
- Cook slowly in a pan with hot water without allowing water to boil.
- After about 1 and 1/2 hours cooking, place a piece of plain metal sheet above the mold and over it, place a few piece of live charcoal to brown top of custard.
- Or slip under broiler in oven just long enough to brown.
- Cool and unmold before serving.