Leche Flan (Filipino Creme Caramel) Leche, Spanish for milk, is one of the dessert's two main ingredients. Made with egg yolks, evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk, Filipino leche flan is a rich steamed custard topped with a syrupy caramel. It is one of the most popular desserts served at parties, fiestas, and other special occasions.
But flan is packed with sugar and sugar-free, low-carb flan recipes are hard to come by. The key to a perfect keto dessert is adding in just the right ingredients to keep the carb count low, without messing with the taste and texture. This low-carb flan does the trick.
Leche flan is traditionally steamed in the Philippines (where ovens were uncommon for many years), but baking it in a water bath is a great alternative if you don’t have a steamer. For more stories, memories, and extended histories behind your most-loved, treasured family recipes from the column, check out our new podcast My Family Recipe.
But unlike traditional egg pudding, each slice only has 0.5 net carbs! Which means that you can dive into this rich dessert totally guilt free. The trick to making flan keto friendly is swapping out the sugar for a low carb sweetener and using heavy cream instead of condensed and evaporated milk.