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| Quesillo canario |
Quesillo is one of the most typical and easy to make desserts in the Canary Islands, it is similar to flan, but made with a lot of condensed milk and on top of that, it's often served with cream in bars and guachinches throughout the island. A veritable calorific bomb, but nobody knows why it's called a quesillo since it doesn't contain any queso (cheese).
Ingredients:
1 can of condensed milk of 370 g
1 and 1/2 cans of whole milk (measure with the condensed milk can)
5 eggs
The zest of 1 lemon
3 tablespoons of sugar or liquid caramel
Method:
In a bowl, pour the condensed milk, the whole milk, the beaten eggs (as for an omelette) and the lemon zest and mix well until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.
Make the liquid caramel: for this pour the sugar into a saucepan and melt it over low heat, without stirring, until it acquires a golden hue and is totally liquid. Be careful, it burns easily! (If you don't want to complicate life, just use liquid caramel from a bottle.)
Pour the liquid caramel into a mould, spreading it well over the entire surface.
Pour the milk mixture into the caramelised mould, then cook it slowly over a bain-marie for 1 hour and a quarter approx., taking care that the pan does not boil dry.
Remove from the heat and remove the mould from the pot. When it's cooled refrigerate for a minimum of 8 hours. To serve, unmold it by turning it over, but do it onto a plate or dish with a lip, since otherwise the liquid caramel may overflow.
Quesillo canario, uno de los postres más típicos y fáciles de preparar de las islas
