Puto Flan Recipe Filipino Delicacy

 

Filipinos love to eat sweets and delicacies. And they have several sweet recipes for special occupations. One of the yummy Filipino delicacies is Puto Flan. This Filipino delicacy is  a combination of the popular and everyone’s favorite leche flan and puto. It is made with steam rice cake and top with leche flan making it a perfect for a mouthful dessert.

Many people like it a lot. It is one of the popular kakanin in Philippines nowadays. Aside from its fun bit size, leche flan is creamy and not so sweet.

This is relatively easy to make. With few ingredients and few tools you have, no doubt that you can easily make this yummy Filipino delicacy at home. So if you want to make your own puto flan, then let’s get started.

For the Puto you will need the following ingredients:

§  2 cups of All-purpose flour

§  2 tablespoon of  Baking powder

§  2/3 cup of white granulated sugar

§  1/2 tsp Salt

§  4 egg whites

§  1/3  cup of water

§  1/3 cup evaporated milk

§  1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Flan:

§  6 egg yolks

§  1 can of sweetened condensed milk (370g)

§  1 teaspoon of kalamansi juice or vanilla extract

 Procedure:

1.   First, heat water in your steamer and bring to a boil and lightly grease each puto molder with melted butter or oil. While waiting for the water to boil, let’s make the leche flan.

2.    In a clean bowl, mix 6 egg yolks and condensed milk, and add the calamansi juice. You can also use vanilla extract. Strain the mixture twice with a fine sieve to make it evenly mixed.

3.      Fill the puto molder with your leche flan mixture for about 1/3 full.

4.     Steam your flan for 12 minutes. Don’t for forget to check your flan once in a while and see if the flan is almost cooked.

5.      While steaming your flan, you can start making your puto mixture. Start with sifting all dry ingredients together in a bowl, and add the wet ingredients and mix well using a wire wrisk but do not overmix.

6.     Once the leche flan is done, allow to cool down and add your puto mixture over your flan mixture and steam again for around 15 minutes. The puto should rise and with top shiny dome form.

7.      Let them cool before your remove them from the molds to make sure that the flan and the puto stick together.

8.     To take out the puto flan from the molders, use a small knife to loosen the puto from the mould and tap slightly to release.

9.     Serve and enjoy!