Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, traditional filipino flan. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Traditional Filipino Flan is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Traditional Filipino Flan is something that I have loved my entire life.

Leche Flan or Creme Caramel is a Filipino dessert made with egg yolks, milk, sugar, and vanilla extract. The new video now features the "llanera" (or traditional leche flan mold). Filipino leche flan is rich with egg and caramel sugar.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook traditional filipino flan using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Filipino Flan:

1. Make ready egg yolks
2. Get condensed milk
3. Make ready evaporated milk
4. Make ready sugar
5. Take vanilla
6. Get lemon zest
7. Take lemon extract or lemon juice
8. Make ready vanilla extract
9. Take water

Traditional Filipino Leche Flan recipe is shared using whole eggs to be more economical. Filipino food tends to be overlooked for other Southeast Asian cuisines, like Thai and Vietnamese. Meaning 'milk flan' in English, leche flan is a custard dessert made of pudding. Our culture is a big reflection of our great and complex history.

Steps to make Traditional Filipino Flan:

1. Separate egg yolks and save the whites for breakfast.
2. Mix all ingredients exept the sugar together.
3. Slowly heat the sugar, vanilla and water in a flan pan that has a hatch lock lid on it until the sugar caramelizes. Add more water as needed (very little) to speed up melting. You're just trying to coat the bottom and the sides of the flan pan. DO NOT OVERHEAT. SUGAR BURNS FAST.
4. Once the sugar has coated your pan take off of the heat and let cool for five minutes or so.
5. Pour mixture into the pan and lock down the lid. It should fill to about 3/4 of the pan. Set the pan inside a steamer and steam for about an hour, if you don't have a steamer put pan inside the oven at 350° sitting in another pan with water. Do not open pan until the time has passed but monitor your water level.
6. When you remove the flan let it rest for about 5 to 7 minutes and slice around the sides of the pan to keep it from cracking as it cools. Let it rest another ten to twenty minutes more before you attempt to flip it onto a plate. The point is to keep the form but don't wait too long or the sugar can harden. You want the caramel to be liquid. You will get the feel for it.
7. Refrigerate overnight for best results. Don't be surprised if you have to make this every day for a while.

Filipino culture is unique compared to other Asian countries, and beliefs apply every day in the life of. Leche Flan is the Filipino version of a dessert popular in Spain as flan de leche. Leche Flan is ever present in almost every Filipino celebrations be it birthdays, baptisms and the Noche Buena feast on. Filipino cuisine (Filipino: lutuing Pilipino/pagkaing Pilipino) is composed of the cuisines of more than a hundred distinct ethno-linguistic groups found throughout the Philippine archipelago. Leche flan is the Philippines' version of caramel pudding.

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