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flan d'automne à la courge butternut et à la vanille en dessert

Butternut Squash and Vanilla Flan

Course: Other dessert
Cuisine: French
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Servings: 8
A delicious, quick and easy silky dessert mainly made with butternut squash purée, without flour - thus gluten free - and without any fat. A French homecooking recipe.
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Ingredients

  • 400 gr butternut squash purée
  • 4 eggs
  • 100 to 120 brown sugar according to your taste, more or less sweet
  • 100 ml milk
  • vanilla

Instructions

Cook butternut squash

  • Start by preparing the butternut squash purée. Peel squash and remove the seeds. Cut into pieces and cook in boiling water (or steam) until smooth, for about 15 to 20 min according to the size.
  • Drain well. Mix or crush it with the back of a fork.

Prepare the flan

  • Preheat your oven to 180 °C.
  • In a bowl, or using a food processor, whisk the whole eggs together with raw sugar and vanilla.
  • Add milk and butternut squash purée and combine.

Bake

  • Grease a baking pan. Pour in the preparation and bake at 180 °C for 30 to 40 minutes.

Notes

The main steps of the recipe: Cook (steam or in boiling water), drain, and purée butternut squash. Combine all the ingredients and bake. That's all