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Flan with minneola tangelo flavor

 

Sorry it took a while. Here is the Minneola flan recipe. I was living in a

place with a couple

of very prolific Minneola tangelos. These are a hybrid of grapefruit and

tangerine, but they

taste like a cross between a lemon and a tangerine to me. As far as looks, they

have this

beautiful bright orange smooth and thin skin, in the shape of Eureka lemons.

 

You might want to make the basic recipe first and add flavors and experiment

once you

get the basic custard to your satisfaction. Oven water bath is essential.

 

 

Basic (vanilla) Flan recipe (Ovolacto)

 

4 whole eggs and 2 egg yolks

1 cup half and half

1 can sweetened condensed milk (14 oz or 396 g)

1 tbsp vanilla

1/3 cup white sugar

 

for Minneola flan variation:

6 minneolas, get both the rind and juice

 

Variations: you can use cream instead of 1/2 and 1/2, or use brown sugar instead

of white

sugar. Also, instead of vanilla, other flavors can be infused in the cream or

half-and-half,

and the caramel sugar can be blended with a reduction (concentrated Minneola

juice in

this case)

 

Preparation:

 

Blend eggs, I find wire whisk better than an electric blender for texture. Add

condensed

milk, cream, and flavoring (vanilla) and get it all mixed.

 

On a separate pan, caramelize the sugar to your darkness preference (some people

like it

a bit burnt). Coat flan pan with molten darkened sugar, and let cool. Pour

flan mix into

this pan. Assemble in larger pan that has enough water to cover the outside of

flan pan.

Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

 

Variation: for Minneola flan, wash 6 minneolas, get their rind and juice them.

Heat cream

with rind to boiling point and let cool with rind in it. Take most of the rind

off when cool

(leave a few for decoration) and mix with eggs.

 

Juice the 6 minneolas and reduce the juice to a thick syrup. Mix with

caramelized sugar

(make a light sugar caramel version).

 

Of course, you may do this with any citrus of your liking, I just happen to have

2 minneola

trees available….I bet it would be great with oranges, tangerines, myers

lemons….