Flan
- A round pastry ran that can have a sweet filling (such as Custard or fruit) or savory filling (vegetable, meat or savory custard). The pastry is usually formed and baked in a special flan ring, a bottomless metal ring with straight (about 1½-inch-high) sides. The flan ring is set on a baking sheet before the dough is baked.
- A famous Spanish baked custard coated with caramel. A flat open tart made of rich creamy custard with Sweet / savoury Caramel sauce filling.
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Trivia[]
- Flan is known as "Purin" in Japan, and an extremely popular food there. Its most common flavor is simply "Purin" (caramel-vanilla flavor), but other Purin flavors exist in rarity as well, such as strawberry, lemon, kabocha squash, matcha green tea, blue butterfly pea, mandarin orange, taro or purple potato, black charcoal, etc.
- Pompom Purin, a Sanrio character, loves "Purin" flans. He popularized the "Purin" flan throughout the entire country.
- Flan can be colored all kinds of colors (using food gel dye into the flan custard mixture - or natural food color powders), such as blue, pink, green, purple, black, etc.