Venezuelan cheese

Venezuelan cheese is a kind of homemade caramel flan . A soft, crumbly and egg flan-like texture is. This traditional dessert is produced in a typical aluminum Tin of Venezuela, but can be used in a pan, pot or normal saucepan with lid.

You need patience and delicacy to make this dessert, but it is very simple, and it will be super. As a good homemade flan , you can serve Venezuelan cheese as a dessert or snack with a good coffee.

Venezuelan cheese recipe

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 small Tin of condensed milk
• Whole milk (the same amount of condensed milk)
• 1 tablespoon of liquid vanilla extract
• ½ cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons water
• 1 tablespoon rum (optional)

How to prepare

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
• Turn the kitchen over medium heat and pour the sugar in a saucepan.
• Add the water and stir with a spoon. Continue stirring until it reaches a brown color and texture of honey. At this point, cover the mold or small flan with candy molds.
• Permeates all the mould (bottom and sides) with caramel.
• Put the rest of the ingredients in the blender or standing Blender: eggs, vanilla, rum, condensed milk and whole milk. To measure the amount of milk, use the empty can of condensed milk. Beat at maximum speed for 20 seconds.
• It hopes that the caramel cools and hardens. Then, pour the mixture in the Tin or pan and close the lid.
• Put the Tin or pan into an oven pan and fill the pan with water at room temperature, up to fill half of the sides of the skillet or pot.
• Kitchen bath Mary for about 50 minutes to 1 hour in the oven, at 180 degrees Celsius.
• Insert a knife or toothpick and if it comes out clean, the Venezuelan cheese is now ready.
• Remove from the oven, open the Tin, Pan, pot or saucepan and leave to cool for 4 hours. 

How the Venezuelan cheese plate

Gently shake the container where is the cheese, to be sure that is separated from the sides. Cover with a serving tray. There turn and slowly lift the Tin. The shape is like turning the tables in a tortilla.
Place in the fridge and let it cool down for at least 6 hours. Enjoy!

Venezuelan cheese in pressure cooker

• If you do not have or do not want to cook in the oven, you can use the pressure cooker to cook the Venezuelan cheese and that it is equally delicious.
• To do so, produces candy such which is indicated above. With the candy permeates the inner edges of the pressure cooker.
• Similarly, whisk all ingredients. Pour the mixture into the pot with the cooled caramel.
• Close the pressure cooker with the lid and place over medium heat. When the steam out, count 20 minutes.
• Let the cooker pressure, open and let cool cool in the fridge.
• Plate and serve as directed above. 

Venezuelan cheese with coffee

You can also add a touch of coffee to this delicious dessert, developed as the previous recipe, but using these ingredients: 

Ingredients for cheese coffee

• 1 medium Tin of condensed milk
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons water
• 1 cup of coffee without sugar and pure
• A touch of vanilla to taste

Preparation

• Sugar and water are the ingredients of the candy. Make it as described above.
• Mixture, whisk the remaining ingredients, pour the mixture over the cooled liquid candy and permeates the pot or the container that you are using.
• Kitchen bath Mary for about 50 minutes to 1 hour in the oven, at 180 degrees Celsius.
• Insert a knife or toothpick and if it comes out clean, the Venezuelan cheese to coffee is ready.
• Remove from the oven, open the container and leave to cool for 4 hours.

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