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Leche Flan Recipe #1 (Steaming)

Ingredients:

• 1 can (390g) evaporated milk
• 1 can (390g) condensed milk
• 10 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract or lemon essence

For the caramel:

• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup water

Here’s How:

1. In a saucepan, mix the sugar & water. Bring to a boil for a few minutes until the sugar caramelize.
2. Pour the caramelized sugar into aluminum moulds – you can use any shape: oval, round or square. Spread the caramel on the bottom of the moulds.
3. Mix well the evaporated milk, condensed milk, egg yolks and vanilla by hand or blender.
4. Gently pour the mixture on top of the caramel on the aluminum moulds. Fill the moulds to about 1 to 1-1/4 inch thick.
5. Cover moulds individually with aluminum foil.
6. Steam for about 20 minutes
7. Let cool then refrigerate.

Leche Flan Recipe #2 (Baking)

Custard ingredients:

• 12 egg yolks
• 2 cans (13 oz.) evaporated and condensed sweetened milk
• 1 tbsp. vanilla

Caramel:

• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup water

Procedure

1. In a large bowl, combine all custard ingredients. Stir lightly when mixing to prevent bubbles or foam from forming. Strain slowly while pouring caramel lined flan mold.
2. Preheat oven to 325° F degrees.
3. Cover mold with tin foil. Put molds into a bigger tray filled with water.
4. Bake in oven for one hour or until mixture is firm. cool before unmolding on a platter.
5. Put sugar and water in a saucepan. Caramelize in medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Pour into flan molds or custard cups, tilting the mold to make sure the whole surface (about less than 1 cm) is covered. The more caramel you pour into the molds the sweeter the leche flan.
6. Put molds in a bigger tray/ baking pan filled with water.
7. Bake in oven for one hour or until mixture is firm. Cool before unmolding on a platter.

Ube Halaya Recipe #1

Here’s How:

1. Boil 1/2 kilo of ubi.
2. When cooked, peel and mash. Pass through a wire strainer or sinamay. You should have 2 cups of mashed ubi.
3. Cook over low heat with 1 can condensed mik and 1/4 cup margarine until thick, stirring all the time to prevent burning.
4. Mold in greased pans. Cool.

Ube Halaya Recipe #2

1. Prepare 3 cups of mashed ubi, or powdered ubi mixed with water.
2. Blend this together with one cup of evaporated milk, 1 tablespoon of margarine, 1/2 cup of wheat flour and 2 cups of sugar.
3. Cook over low heat, and stir constantly for 25 minutes.
4. Before removing from heat, add lemon rind.
5. Place in a small bottles and seal tightly. Only a couple of hundred pesos worth of ingredients are needed to produced six small bottles of marketable halaya.

Ube Halaya Recipe #3

• 2 lb ube (purple yam) (you can also buy powdered ube from Asian stores)
• 250 g sugar
• 1 cup sugar (or as desired)
• 1 can condensed milk
• 2 cups coconut milk
• butter

Procedure

1. Boil yam until tender and cut into cubes, then grind in a food processor with sugar and coconut milk (if you have the powdered variety, mix ingredients).
2. Transfer to a sauce pan, add the condensed milk (if starting from fresh) and cook over a low fire, stirring continuously.
3. Continue stirring until the mixture turns into a thick paste and separates from the pan.
4. Transfer to a shallow platter or pan and allow to cool.

other source: pinoyfoodblog.com