Author Notes
My husband loves flan, so learning to make a good one was pretty much mandatory ... this version is as popular as the plain vanilla —aargersi
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Ingredients
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1
cup sugar
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1
can sweetened condensed milk
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1
can evaporated milk
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1/4 cup
coconut milk
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4
large eggs
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1 tablespoon
vanilla
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1/4 cup
sweetened shredded coconut
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fresh ground nutmeg
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1 pinch
salt
Directions
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Put a pyrex loaf pan out where you can get to it quickly. Make the caramelized sugar - put the sugar in a small pan with a couple tablespoons of water and swirl it around to mix. Turn the heat to medium high (if you have a gas stove, you don't want the flames coming up the side of the pan). Do not stir the sugar yet! I know you want to, but don't. Wait until it starts to turn golden around the edges, THEN you can stir. I am adding a photo of when you can start stirring in case you are tempted to start sooner.
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Once the sugar starts to brown, don't STOP stirring - keep it moving until it is golden brown, just a shade lighter than you want as it will darken a bit in the pan.
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Pour into the pyrex, then grate a good amount of nutmeg over it and sprinkle on the coconut. Put it aside to set up for a few minutes
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Beat the eggs, milks and vanilla and salt together until they are nice and frothy. Pour them into the pyrex over the coconut and sugar.
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Put the loaf pan in another, larger pan and fill 1" of cold water, and place it in a cold oven. Turn the oven on to 350 and bake for about an hour and 20-30 minutes, until the flan is set in the middle.
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Cool for awhile, then run a knife around the edge. Put a plate over the top and flip. Don't dilly-dally, go ahead and flip it. Scrape as much of the stuck on sugar and coconut in the pan onto the flan as you can. Lick the spoon.
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Tasty served warm or chilled. That pan is going to need to soak in warm water for awhile, and you might consider changing out the water every hour or so.
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