Lime Flan with Caramelized Pineapple
- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 3/4 cup reduced-fat (2%) milk
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 cup canned fat-free sweetened condensed milk
- 1 teaspoon minced lime peel
- 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
- 1 1/4 cups egg substitute*
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 1/2 pineapple (about 1 1/2 pounds), peeled, cored, cut lengthwise into 16 slices
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint
- *A liquid product usually made of egg whites, food starch, corn oil and skim milk powder; available in the refrigerated dairy section at most supermarkets.
- Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 325F.
- Place 9-inch-diameter cake pan with 1 1/2-inch-high sides in oven.
- Bring lime juice to simmer in small saucepan.
- Remove from heat; cool.
- Stir sugar and 1/4 cup water in heavy small saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves.
- Increase heat and boil without stirring until deep amber color, occasionally brushing down sides of pan with wet pastry brush and swirling pan, about 6 minutes.
- Pour hot caramel into hot cake pan; using oven mitts, tilt cake pan to coat bottom evenly.
- Set aside.
- Stir reduced-fat milk and cornstarch in 1-cup glass measuring cup to blend.
- Combine condensed milk, lime peel and lime juice in large bowl.
- Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean.
- Stir to blend.
- Stir in egg substitute, then cornstarch mixture.
- Pour custard over caramel in pan.
- Place cake pan in large roasting pan.
- Add enough hot water to roasting pan to come halfway up sides of cake pan.
- Cover roasting pan with foil.
- Bake custard until set around edges and center 4 inches still moves when pan is gently shaken, about 50 minutes (do not overbake or custard will curdle).
- Transfer cake pan to rack and let flan cool.
- Cover and refrigerate flan overnight.
- Spray large nonstick skillet with nonstick spray.
- Place skillet over high heat.
- Add 8 pineapple slices to skillet and cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes per side.
- Drizzle 1 tablespoon lime juice over pineapple.
- Using spatula, transfer pineapple to plate.
- Wipe out skillet, then spray with more nonstick spray.
- Repeat with remaining 8 pineapple slices and 1 tablespoon lime juice.
- Cut pineapple slices diagonally in half.
- Sprinkle with chopped mint.
- Run small knife around cake pan sides to loosen flan.
- Invert flan onto platter.
- Cut into wedges; serve with pineapple.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/lime-flan-with-caramelized-pineapple-101383 (may not work)