Fried Milk Recipe (Spanish Leche Frita Dessert)
Leche frita (fried milk) is a very interesting and unique Spanish traditional dessert. This dessert has a silky smooth texture, sweet and rich flavor and very unique look. It’s pretty easy to prepare leche frita, the custard is eggless, and the results are spectacular.
Fried Milk Recipe (Spanish Leche Frita Dessert)
Ingredients
- 4 cups 960ml Milk, divided
- 1 Cinnamon stick
- Lemon peel from 1 small lemon
- ½ cup 100g Sugar
- â…” cup 85g Cornstarch
- pinch Salt
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
For coating and frying:
- 2 Eggs
- ½ cup 65g Flour
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon powder
- ½ cup 100g sugar
- oil for frying
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS1. Place 3 cups of milk, sugar, cinnamon stick, and lemon peel and pinch of salt in a saucepan and bring to a simmer over low heat. 2. Meanwhile in a bowl, whisk cornstarch with the remaining 1 cup of milk. Whisk until smooth. 3. Remove cinnamon stick and lemon peel from the hot milk. Pour the cornstarch mixture to the hot milk and heat over low-medium heat, stirring constantly, until thickens. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla extract. 4. Pour the mixture into a pan lined with parchment paper. Cover with plastic wrap, let cool to room temperature, then refrigerate for at least 4 hours. 5. When chilled, cut into squares. 6. Prepare the coating: in one bowl beat 2 eggs, in the second bowl put flour, in the second plate/bowl mix sugar and cinnamon. 7. Coat milk squares in flour, then dip in beaten eggs. 8. Fry in hot oil for about 1-2 minutes on each side, until golden. 9. Transfer to a paper towel to drain, then coat with sugar-cinnamon mixture. Serve warm! Notes:
- To make the custard more flavorful you can add orange peel and other spices.
- Suggested to serve with ice cream.
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Watch the ratings! I tapped on the reviews to read more and accidentally gave 3 stars! Probably getting lower ratings than it should!!
what temperature do i fry this shit at
I just fried it at medium. I just now made it lmaoo its almost like fried ice cream