Honey flan
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Orange blossom honey to caramelize the |
| ; ramekins* | ||
| 3 | Eggs | |
| 1½ | cup | Half and half; or light cream |
| 3 | tablespoons | Orange blossom honey* |
| 2 | teaspoons | Vanilla extract |
| 1 | Granny Smith apple | |
| 2 | Red Delicious apples | |
| 1 | tablespoon | Fresh lemon juice |
| 1 | pint | Strawberries |
| 3 | tablespoons | Butter |
| 2 | teaspoons | Orange blossom honey* |
| 18 | Whole blackberries | |
| 6 | Sprigs fresh mint | |
Directions
* Orange blossom honey gives this recipe a special flavor but you can use any honey you like.
TO PREPARE THE RAMEKINS: Heat a medium saut‚ pan, over high heat, or until very hot. Add the ½ cup of honey and cook over medium heat until the honey is a dark brown. Pour the honey into six ½ cup porcelain or oven-proof ramekins. With a pot holder to protect your hands, tilt each ramekin so the honey coats the bottom and sides. Preheat the oven to 350ø F.
TO MAKE THE FLAN: In a mixing bowl combine the eggs, half and half, 3 tablespoons honey and vanilla. Ladle this custard mixture into the prepared ramekins and set the ramekins in a baking pan filled with enough hot water to reach half way up the outside of the ramekins. Bake for an hour or until the flans are set and no longer wobbly.
TO MAKE THE FRUIT GARNISH: While the flans are baking, core, peel and cut the apples into ¼-inch dice. Toss them with some lemon juice so they do not discolor. Stem the strawberries and cut them into quarters.
TO FINISH THE FLANS AND GARNISH: Remove the baking pan from the oven and remove the flans from the baking pan. In a 10-inch skillet over high heat, heat the butter. When the butter turns golden brown, add the apples and saut‚ over high heat for about a minute or until the apples take on some color. Add the 2 teaspoons of honey and remove the skillet from the heat.
Toss in the strawberries and stir to combine. With a knife, loosen the edges of the custards from the ramekins and turn each one, upside down, in the middle of a dessert plate. Not all the caramelized honey will come out.
Spoon the apples and strawberries around the flan and set 3 blackberries over the fruit. Garnish each flan with a sprig of mint.
Converted by MC_Buster.
Per serving: 2680 Calories (kcal); 102g Total Fat; (32% calories from fat); 50g Protein; 433g Carbohydrate; 788mg Cholesterol; 681mg Sodium Food Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 2½ Lean Meat; ½ Vegetable; 26 Fruit; 17 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates Converted by MM_Buster v2.0n.