Flan Patissier
Traditional dish with milk, white granulated sugar, cornstarch.
- prep 13 min
- cook 32 min
- total 45 min
- serves 6
- intermediate
Ingredients
- 500 ml milk
- 150 g white granulated sugar
- 80 g cornstarch
- 3 whole eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 200 g puff pastry
Steps
- Preheat the oven to 200°C.
- If using frozen puff pastry, take it out from the freezer.
- Heat the milk in a saucepan until scalding but not boiling.
- In a bowl, mix the sugar and the cornstarch.
- Then beat in the whole eggs.
- Very gradually whisk the hot milk into this mixture to avoid cooking the egg.
- Add the vanilla extract.
- Return this mixture to the saucepan.
- Cook for 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly to avoid curdling.
- Remove from the heat before it gets to the boiling point.
- Line a buttered metal pie pan with the puff pastry to make a crust.
- Fill the crust with the hot custard.
- Bake for 25–30 minutes in the preheated oven until golden on top.
- Cool to room temperature.
- Then chill in the refrigerator.
Adapted from “Flan Patissier”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.