Indulge in the delectable flavors of the Big Sweet Potato Flan, a symphony of textures and tastes that will tantalize your palate. This extraordinary dish combines the natural sweetness of roasted sweet potatoes with the richness of a creamy custard, resulting in a velvety-smooth and utterly satisfying dessert. The flan is baked to perfection, achieving a beautiful golden-brown crust that contrasts with its tender and creamy interior. Accompanying the Big Sweet Potato Flan are two additional enticing recipes: a luscious Sweet Potato Pie with a flaky, buttery crust and a decadent Sweet Potato Cheesecake that boasts a graham cracker crust and a creamy, velvety filling. These sweet potato-inspired creations offer a delightful range of flavors and textures, making them perfect for any occasion.
Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!
ROASTED SWEET POTATO PIE OR FLAN
I like this as much without a crust as with one. It's not a flan in the traditional sense, with a caramel component. It's an irresistibly creamy one. If you use 2 eggs instead of 3 (see variation) the texture will be smoother but it won't slice as neatly.
Provided by Martha Rose Shulman
Categories dinner, pies and tarts, dessert
Time 2h
Yield 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil. Pierce the sweet potatoes in several places with the tip of a paring knife. Place on the baking sheet and bake 40 to 50 minutes, until soft and oozing. Remove from the oven and when cool enough to handle, peel and place in a food processor fitted with the steel blade (you can also blend the mixture with a hand blender). Turn the oven down to 350 degrees. If not using a crust, butter a round 9-inch baking dish.
- Measure out 1 1/2 cups of sweet potato purée (store any extra purée in the refrigerator and enjoy with a meal). Place the purée in the food processor, or in a bowl if using a hand blender, add the remaining ingredients (except the crust) and blend until smooth and creamy. Scrape into the baking dish or the crust. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 45 to 50 minutes, or until set. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 134, UnsaturatedFat 2 grams, Carbohydrate 18 grams, Fat 6 grams, Fiber 1 gram, Protein 4 grams, SaturatedFat 3 grams, Sodium 116 milligrams, Sugar 13 grams, TransFat 0 grams
SWEET POTATO FLAN
Provided by Jean Anderson
Categories Milk/Cream Egg Dessert Sweet Potato/Yam Fall Winter Bon Appétit Kidney Friendly Vegetarian Pescatarian Wheat/Gluten-Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free Kosher
Yield Makes 8 to 10 servings
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Pierce sweet potato with fork; roast until tender, 1 to 1 1/2 hours, depending on width of potato. Cool. Cut potato in half and scoop flesh into mini processor; puree until smooth. Measure 1 cup puree (reserve any remaining puree for another use). Maintain oven temperature.
- Stir 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tablespoons water in medium saucepan over medium-low heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and boil without stirring until syrup turns deep amber, occasionally swirling pan and brushing down sides with wet pastry brush, about 5 minutes. Immediately pour caramel into 8-inch-diameter metal cake pan, leaving about 2 tablespoons caramel in saucepan. Using pot holders, swirl cake pan, allowing caramel to coat bottom and about 1/2 inch up sides.
- Add half and half to remaining caramel in saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until caramel dissolves. Whisk eggs in medium bowl until frothy. Whisk in cream, salt, 1 cup sweet potato puree, and remaining 1/2 cup sugar. Gradually whisk in hot half and half mixture. Strain into same saucepan. Stir over medium heat 1 minute. Remove from heat; whisk in Port. Pour custard into prepared cake pan.
- Place cake pan in large roasting pan. Add enough hot water to roasting pan to come halfway up sides of cake pan. Bake until just set in center, about 1 hour. Remove flan from water. Chill until cold, about 5 hours. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover; keep chilled.
- Dip bottom and 1 inch up sides of cake pan into pan of hot water 15 seconds. Wipe dry. Invert onto rimmed plate, scraping caramel in pan over flan.
SWEET-POTATO FLAN
We made this flan in a 4-cup-capacity savarin mold, but a 9-by-2-inch round cake pan or a 9-inch glass pie plate can be used as well.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes
Yield Makes one 9-inch flan
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place sweet potatoes on a baking sheet, and roast until very soft, about 1 hour. Allow to cool. Peel off skin, and discard. Place sweet potatoes in the bowl of a food processor, and puree until completely smooth. Measure 1 1/2 cups puree, reserving any excess for another use. This step may be done a day in advance.
- Reduce oven to 325 degrees. Combine 1 cup sugar and the water in a small saucepan, and cook over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until sugar dissolves. Brush down sides of pan with a pastry brush dipped in water to prevent crystallization. Increase heat to medium-high; boil, without stirring, until the syrup turns a deep amber, 5 to 6 minutes. Pour caramel into savarin mold or a 9-by-2-inch round cake pan. Holding the pan with pot holders, swirl to coat bottom and halfway up sides of dish.
- In a large bowl, combine sweet-potato puree, remaining 3/4 cup sugar, allspice, cinnamon, salt, eggs, and egg yolks. Mix in vanilla and scalded milk, then pass the mixture through a fine sieve. Pour into caramel-lined pan, and cover with foil. Set in a roasting pan, and pour boiling water into the roasting pan halfway up sides of flan dish.
- Bake for 50 to 55 minutes, or until center of flan is nearly set: A thin-bladed knife inserted in the center should come out clean. Let cool to room temperature, and place in the refrigerator to chill overnight.
- To unmold, run a sharp knife carefully around flan, and cover with a serving plate; invert quickly. Remove pan; serve.
SWEET POTATO FLAN
Steps:
- Reheat oven to 350 degrees F. Bake potatoes until soft throughout, about 1 hour. Cool, then peel and cut into chunks. Puree in a food processor--do not over mix--and reserve. Reduce oven to 325 degrees F.
- Prepare caramel and sauce following the same method as for Creme Caramel (recipe follows). Line a 3-quart Pyrex loaf pan with caramel and set aside on a level surface. Chill sauce.
- Combine custard ingredients in a large bowl and whisk in the sweet potato puree to combine. Pour through a strainer into lined loaf pan.
- Place inside a larger roasting pan. Pour in boiling water until it rises halfway up the sides of the loaf pan. Bake about 1 hour and 50 minutes. The center should feel firm when pressed.
- Set aside to cool about 1 1/2 hours. Cover with plastic wrap touching top. Refrigerate overnight or as long as 4 days.
- Run a knife along inside edge 2 or 3 times to loosen. When you press center, sides should pull away. Cover with a platter and quickly invert. Drain excess caramel into a bowl and strain into reserved cold sauce. Serve slices of flan on dessert plates. Top with chilled caramel sauce.
CARAMELIZED ONION AND POTATO FLAN
5 ingredients and only 3 steps! This recipe was highly recommended by one of the nurses that I work with. It is an easy and elegant side dish from the Best of Bridge ladies. Excellent with ham or roast beef. Enjoy!
Provided by Nif_H
Categories Potato
Time 1h25m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- In large frying pan over medium heat, saute onions in butter until deep golden brown, about 20 minutes. Cook slowly to caramelize.
- Grease a 9" x 13" or large round baking dish. Layer half the potatoe slices in a shingle fashion and season. Top with half the onions and cheese. Repeat next layer, ending with cheese.
- Bake at 350F for 50 minutes, or until potatoes are fork tender. Cut in squares or wedges to serve.
SWEET POTATO FLAN
Flan is so good! A thick custard, rich and sweet! Perfect for the end of a great holiday meal! Prep time includes 1 hr. for cooking sweet potatoes or you can use canned mashed sweet potato!
Provided by Sharon123
Categories Dessert
Time 2h30m
Yield 1 10inch flan
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Pierce sweet potatoes several times with a fork; place on a baking sheet.
- Bake at 375* for 1 hour or until done; cool to touch.
- Peel sweet potatoes, and mash.
- Set aside 1 cup mashed sweet potatoes; reserve any remaining sweet potatoes for another use.
- Sprinkle sugar in a 10-inch round cakepan; place over medium heat, and cook, shaking pan constantly, until sugar melts and turns a light golden brown.
- Remove from heat, and set aside.
- (Melted sugar may crack slightly as it cools).
- Combine half of sweet potatoes, 1 can sweetened condensed milk, and half of next 6 ingredients in container of an electric blender; blend until smooth, stopping once to scrape down sides.
- Pour mixture into a large bowl.
- Repeat procedure; add to bowl, stirring well with a wire whisk.
- Pour mixture over caramelized sugar in cakepan; cover with aluminum foil, and place in a larger shallow pan.
- Add hot water to larger pan to depth of 1/2 inch.
- Bake at 325* for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a knife inserted in center comes out clean.
- Remove cakepan from water, and uncover; cool in pan on a wire rack 30 minutes.
- Refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
- Loosen edges of flan from pan with a small knife; invert onto a serving plate.
- Garnish, if desired, with toasted coconut.
- Yield: 1 (10-inch) flan.
SWEET POTATO FLAN
We made this flan in a 4-cup savarin mold, but a 9 × 2-inch round cake pan or a 9-inch glass pie plate can be used as well.
Yield Makes one 1-inch flan
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 450°F. Place the sweet potatoes on a baking sheet, and roast until very soft, about 1 hour. Allow to cool. Peel off the skin, and discard. Place the sweet potatoes in the bowl of a food processor, and puree until completely smooth. Measure 1 1/2 cups puree, reserving any excess for another use. This step may be done 1 day ahead.
- Reduce the oven to 325°F. Combine 1 cup sugar and the water in a small saucepan, and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves. Brush down the sides of the pan with a pastry brush dipped in water to prevent crystallization. Increase heat to medium-high; boil, without stirring, until the syrup turns a deep amber, 5 to 6 minutes. Pour the caramel into a savarin mold or a 9 × 2-inch round cake pan. Holding the pan with pot holders, swirl to coat the bottom and halfway up the sides of the dish.
- In a large bowl, combine the sweet potato puree, remaining 3/4 cup sugar, allspice, cinnamon, salt, eggs, and egg yolks. Mix in the vanilla and scalded milk, and then pass the mixture through a fine sieve. Pour into the caramel-lined pan, and cover with foil. Set in a roasting pan, and pour boiling water into the roasting pan halfway up the sides of the flan dish.
- Bake for 50 to 55 minutes, or until the center of the flan is nearly set: A thin-bladed knife inserted in the center should come out clean. Let cool to room temperature, and place in the refrigerator to chill overnight.
- To unmold, run a sharp knife carefully around the flan, and cover with a serving plate; invert quickly. Remove the pan; serve.
Tips:
- To ensure a smooth and creamy flan, blend the sweet potatoes until they are completely smooth. You can use a blender or a food processor for this.
- Make sure to use full-fat milk and cream for a richer flavor and texture. You can also use a combination of milk and half-and-half.
- If you don't have a baking dish, you can use a 9-inch pie plate. Just make sure to trim the edges of the sweet potato mixture so that it fits snugly in the dish.
- To prevent the flan from cracking, place the baking dish in a larger pan filled with hot water. This will create a humid environment that will help the flan cook evenly.
- After baking, allow the flan to cool completely before refrigerating it. This will help it set properly.
Conclusion:
This Big Sweet Potato Flan is a delicious and easy-to-make dessert that is perfect for any occasion. It is creamy, flavorful, and has a beautiful golden-brown crust. You can serve it with a variety of toppings, such as whipped cream, ice cream, or fresh berries. So next time you are looking for a sweet treat, give this flan a try!
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