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Crema catalana
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Preparation time:
10 minutes
Cooking time:
20 minutes
Difficulty:
medium
What you'll need and how to make this dish
Ingredients
- 1l milk
- 200g sugar
- 6 egg yolks
- 30g cornstarch
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 piece lemon peel
Method
- <ol> <li>Mix the egg yolks
- sugar
- and cornstarch with 1/3 of the milk.</li> <li>In a saucepan
- boil 2/3 of the milk with the lemon peel and cinnamon.</li> <li>After 3 minutes
- remove from the heat and take out the lemon and cinnamon.</li> <li>Slowly add the egg mixture to the hot milk through a strainer to ensure there are no lumps.</li> <li>Return it to the heat until it boils
- stirring constantly.</li> <li>Once the mixture has begun to thicken
- remove from the heat and put it into individual bowls to cool.</li> <li>For an authentic finish
- sprinkle with sugar and brown with a blowtorch or under a preheated broiler to caramelize.</li> </ol>