Coconut flan

I love coconut. It's something beyond remedy, so rather than hide my little passion I try to make the most of it. One of my favorite uses is in flans and puddings, and today I leave you a coconut flan recipe that turns out perfect. More than perfect, you get irresistible flans! With just the right sweetness, the perfect coconut touch to identify that main ingredient, the right egg flavor to enjoy the flan properly and the perfect amount of shredded coconut to find at the base of the flan that greater density in texture that is so enjoyed alongside the caramel flavor. Did I tell you that making flans is another of my passions?

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

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

If you want to know how the yogurt maker works, you should know that it is a very simple appliance: it has a base that heats and evaporates the water you apply to it before use. You fill the jars with your mixture to make yogurts, flans, custards, fresh cheese... , place them in the yogurt maker's holder and start it. The yogurt maker has a few programs that work for many things (quick yogurts, everyday desserts, fresh cheese... those are the main ones). The only thing the machine does is use those standards to heat the water faster or slower and stay on for more or less time, although you can also adjust their time if you want. Once you've chosen the program, press the OK button to start and the yogurt maker will set your yogurts and flans.

The best thing about the yogurt maker is how easy it makes everything - it saves you from turning on burners and the oven, and setting up a bain-marie. Also, the glass jars are elegant and practical, and it's nice to eat from them so, unlike when you make flans in stainless steel mold rings, you can eat them directly in the jars. I think you'll like to see what the yogurt maker lets you make, you'll see it in the recipe book you can download from the product page, check the description text and you'll find it.

Multidelices yogurt maker

Ingredients

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

Preparation

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

Notes

• You can incorporate the raisins into the mixture or use them to accompany the flan when serving. If you like them, you'll be interested to know that raisins and coconut pair wonderfully.
• When serving, you can serve the jars directly or unmold them (being glass you'll see they come out easily, just run a knife around the sides).
• You can make the coconut flan recipe without a yogurt maker: you just need to apply the liquid caramel directly to the individual flan molds or to the Kitchen Craft XL flan mold, and place them in a bain-marie in the oven for about 55 minutes at 180 ºC.
• Since I have an extra set of jars for the yogurt maker, I get much more use out of it: I no longer have to wait to finish all the flans or yogurts I have in the fridge to make more. That way it's in constant use, 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-sized desserts here. I think they are a good purchase.