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While flan may be an increasingly popular dessert dish, how many people actually know what it is? It’s not only important to know what you’re putting in your body with this fluffy dessert, but also what makes it so yummy.
To learn exactly what flan is, find a recipe for it, that way you also learn how to make it in the process. ASOTO at allrecipes.com provides a straightforward recipe for flan.
Gathering information from the list of ingredients, it’s clearly the vanilla extract and white sugar that make flan so sweet, but where does it get the fluffy texture from?
The texture comes from the step in the process in which the eggs are beaten together with the milk and vanilla. After being cooked, the eggs expand and give flan that fluffy texture without compromising the taste. Flan’s syrup gets its brown/golden color from the way the sugar caramelizes when it is melted. The liquid sugar is poured over the flan before it is served to make it even sweeter.
Now that you know what flan is and how it is made, hopefully you can appreciate the hard work that is put into making it just as much as you enjoy its delectable flavor!
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