Recipes · inspired by Flan in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 1
Two-Minute Mug Flan
Caramel on the bottom, silky custard on top, cooked in a mug in the microwave. Five ingredients and a few minutes.
- Ready in
- 6 min
- Then
- Eat it warm, or chill 30 minutes if you like it cold
- Ingredients
- 5
- Makes
- 1 mug
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
A real baked flan takes an hour in a water bath. Cooking it gently at half power in the microwave gives you the same smooth custard in a fraction of the time.
Make it a learning moment: the egg is what turns the liquid milk into a soft solid. Heat makes the egg’s proteins unfold and link together like a net that holds the milk in place.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Kids Spoon the caramel sauce into the bottom of a microwave-safe mug.
- Kids In a cup, whisk the egg, milk, sugar and vanilla until smooth, then pour it gently over the caramel.
- Grown-up Microwave at half power for 2 to 3 minutes, checking every 30 seconds, until the edges are set and the middle just wobbles. The mug gets hot.
- Grown-up Let it cool for 5 minutes. Eat it from the mug, or run a butter knife around the edge and flip it onto a plate so the caramel runs down the sides.
