Flan With Bananas
Total Time: 2 hrs
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 6
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 bananas, peeled and chopped
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons brandy (optional)
- 3 cups whipping cream (i used 1 cup whipping cream with 2 cups 2% milk)
- 1 vanilla bean, split
- 8 egg yolks
- 5 tablespoons sugar
- cracked ice
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
Recipe
- 1 melt butter in skillet over medium-low heat. add bananas and 1 tablespoon sugar.
- 2 mix to coat bananas with butter. cover and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- 3 with the back of a wooden spoon mash bananas against the side of the pan until they are a chunky puree.
- 4 stir in lemon juice.
- 5 if using brandy,increase the heat to high and add brandy. cook one minute. take off heat.
- 6 put banana puree into six 1-cup custard dishes or ramekins.
- 7 preheat oven to 300°f.
- 8 in saucepan, bring cream (milk combined with cream or just all milk works fine) and vanilla bean to a boil. turn off heat and set aside.
- 9 in a double boiler over simmering water, combine yolks and 5 tablespoons sugar, stirring constantly for 15 minutes or until mixture coats back of spoon.
- 10 mix in vanilla cream and stir until mixture thickens to light cream consistency (5-10 minutes). remove vanilla bean.
- 11 spoon custard into dishes over the banana mixture.
- 12 place dishes in roasting pan. pour hot water into roasting pan to depth of 1/2 inch.
- 13 bake custards for 50 - 60 minutes or until set. check with knife inserted in middle of one custard. knife will come out clean.
- 14 remove from pan.
- 15 cover dishes with plastic wrap and put in refrigerator to cool). (custards may be prepared one day ahead to this point).
- 16 preheat broiler.
- 17 put cracked ice in broiler pan and put custard dishes in pan.
- 18 sprinkle each custard with 2 teaspoons brown sugar.
- 19 broil 4 inches from heat until sugar caramelizes--watch carefully--this happens very fast.
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