Coconut flan

I love coconut. It's something that can't be cured, so rather than hiding my little passion I try to make the most of it. One of my favorite uses is in flans and puddings, and today I'm leaving you with a recipe for coconut flan that turns out great. More than great, you get some addictive flans! With just the right amount of sweetness, the perfect touch of coconut to identify that main ingredient, just the right egg flavor to enjoy the flan as it should be, and just the right amount of coconut flakes to find in the base of the flan that greater density in the texture that is so enjoyable along with the caramel flavor. Did I tell you that making flans is another of my passions?

This time I made the recipe in the popular Tefal Multidelices yogurt maker , although you can also make it in flan dishes or the XL flan mold (I talk about it in the notes).

So practical, clean and hassle-free, the Multidelices yogurt maker is ideal, even more so now in summer: it saves us from turning on the oven and stove for the bain-marie, and its glass jars are wonderful: you can eat the flans directly from them, and they are really easy to clean. Also, I must confess that I really like these jars: being glass, a good size and with a lid, I often use them as containers to store small amounts of sauce or oils that I have left over or to take a small snack to the table.

If you want to know how a yogurt maker works, you should know that it is a very simple appliance: it has a base that heats up and evaporates the water that you put on it before using it. You fill the jars with your mixture to make yogurt, flan, custard, fresh cheese..., you put them in the yogurt maker's support and you start it. The yogurt maker has a few programs that are useful for many things (quick yogurts, daily desserts, fresh cheese... these are the main ones). The only thing the machine does is use these standards to heat the water more or less quickly and stay on for a longer or shorter time, although you can also adjust the time of the same if you are interested. Once you have chosen the program, press the OK button to start it and the yogurt maker will set your yogurts and flan.

The best thing about the yogurt maker is how easy it makes it - it saves you from having to turn on the burners and oven, and assemble the parts to make a bain-marie. Plus, glass jars are stylish and practical, and it's nice to eat out of them, so unlike when you make flan in stainless steel flan dishes, you can eat it straight from them. I think you'll like to see what the yogurt maker allows you to do - you'll see it in the recipe book that you can download from the product page - look in the description text and you'll find it.

Multidelices Yogurt Maker

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 130 gr sugar
• 45 gr of grated coconut*
• 300 ml coconut milk
• 110 ml whole milk
• Liquid caramel for the bottom of the jars (and for serving)
• A handful of raisins (optional)
• Cinnamon (optional, at the time of serving)

Preparation

1. Add all the ingredients into a bowl or the KitchenAid bowl. Mix well.
2. We add liquid caramel to the bottoms of the 6 jars.
3. We put a little water in the Tefal yogurt maker (up to the first line or a little more), turn on the yogurt maker and press "Program 4" (desserts), 55 minutes.
4. We turn it on and wait for the yogurt maker to set the flans.
5. Leave in the refrigerator until the next day.

Grades

• You can add the raisins to the mixture or use them to accompany the flan when serving. If you like them, you will be interested to know that raisins and coconut go together wonderfully.
• When serving, you can serve the jars directly or remove them from the mould (since they are made of glass, you will see that they are easy to remove, just run a knife along the sides).
• You can make the coconut flan recipe without a yogurt maker: just pour the liquid caramel directly into individual flan dishes or into the Kitchen Craft XL flan dish , and place them in a bain-marie in the oven for about 55 minutes at 180ºC.
• Since I have an extra set of jars for the yogurt maker, I get a lot more out of it: I no longer have to wait until I finish all the flans or yogurts I have in the fridge to make more. This way, I have it constantly working, and I always have a variety of desserts in the fridge. You can buy sets of glass jars for the yogurt maker, or glasses or an XL jar to make large desserts here . I think they are a good purchase.