Coconut flan

You don't think that the pressure cooker is only designed to steam vegetables, do you? I hope I can prove it to you with this delicious Coconut Flan that we prepared today in a pressure cooker, one of the most delicious I have ever tried! It is a fine flan, with that coconut flavour that gives it a different character, without hindering the characteristic flavour of egg flan.

The pressure cooker is far from just making vegetables and creams: the pressure cooker allows you to cook meats and make them tender and wonderful in record time , it allows you to make stews with a fabulous amalgam of flavors, you can steam fish in the healthiest way, you can make delicious cakes ( yes, a steamer makes great cakes! ) and you can also make delicious flans like the one we bring you today, the coconut flan recipe. Among many other things, of course.

What is the good thing about cooking in a pressure cooker? In a nutshell, the best thing for me is that it shortens cooking times a lot (this flan, for example, takes 35 minutes, when cooked in a traditional bain-marie it would take an hour and a half), and since it is a much faster cooking process and you can steam it with them, you preserve the nutrients in the food much better.

I hope you are encouraged to discover the pressure cooker and get the most out of it, starting with this flan recipe that we bring you today.

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 150 gr sugar
• 500 cc coconut milk
• 200 gr sugar to make the caramel

Preparation

1. Prepare the caramel by putting the 200g of sugar in a saucepan or flan dish suitable for the stove. Turn on the heat and wait for the sugar to melt. Remember that you can shake the saucepan from time to time but you must not put any utensils in it or it will crystallize. Once the caramel is golden, move the flan dish to coat the sides (if you have made the caramel in a saucepan, pour it into the flan dish quickly, it cools quickly). Leave it to cool.
2. In a separate bowl , beat the eggs with the sugar using a whisk with a ball tip (to infuse less air) and add the coconut milk. Mix well and fill the flan dish.
3. Cover the flan dish with aluminum foil as seen in the video.
4. Pour 1 L of water into the WMF pressure cooker , place the bridge and the steamer (which in this case acts as a food holder), and on top of it the covered flan dish.
5. Close the pressure cooker and put it on high heat; when the valve is up, lower the heat to medium power and start counting 35 minutes.
6. After this time, turn off the heat, lower the valve, open the pot and check: prick the flan with a toothpick to check the cooking point. It will be ready if the tip comes out completely clean.

Remove the flan dish from the pot and allow it to cool. Once it has cooled, you can store it in the same mould in the fridge and remove it from the mould just before serving.

Remember that it is important that the flan is cold before serving, that's how delicious it is!