Lavender Crème Brûlée

Name: Lavender Crème Brûlée
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 4 larges egg yolks; 2 Tbsps dried lavender flowers; 237 milliliters About sugar; 1 vanilla bean (3 in. long), split lengthwise; 473 milliliters (1 pt.) whipping cream

Lavender Crème Brûlée might be just the side dish you are searching for. Watching your figure? This gluten free and vegetarian recipe has 669 calories, 5g of protein, and 49g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes. Only Head to the store and pick up whipping cream, egg yolks, vanilla bean, and a few other things to make it today. It is a rather inexpensive recipe for fans of Southern food.

Instructions

In a 2- to 3-quart pan over medium-high heat, bring cream, lavender, and vanilla to a boil, stirring often.

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Fresh Lavender

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Cream

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Remove from heat; let stand 10 minutes.

In a bowl, beat yolks and 1/4 cup sugar to blend.

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Sugar

Egg Yolk

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Pour cream mixture through a fine strainer into bowl with yolks. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into the cream mixture; stir. Rinse bean and let dry for other uses. Discard lavender.

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Cream

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Pour cream custard mixture equally into 4 ovenproof crme brle dishes or ramekins (each about 1 in. deep and 5 1/2 in. wide). Set dishes in a 2-inch-deep 11- by 17-inch pan.

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Set pan on rack of a 300 oven. Carefully pour boiling water into pan up to level of custard.

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Bake until custards jiggle only slightly when shaken gently, 15 to 18 minutes. With a wide spatula, carefully lift dishes from water onto a rack.

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Let desserts cool, then cover and chill until cold to touch, about 1 hour or up to 1 day.

In a 6- to 8-inch frying pan over medium heat, shake 2/3 cup sugar until melted and pale amber colored, 8 to 10 minutes. Working quickly, drizzle about a quarter of the hot sugar syrup over 1 custard at a time. Immediately tilt dish so syrup flows evenly over custard. Syrup hardens almost at once. Repeat to glaze remaining custards.

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Serve, or let desserts chill up to 1 hour so the glaze dissolves a little and gets thinner.

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Servings:

4larges

egg yolks 2Tbsps

dried lavender flowers 237milliliters

About sugar 1

vanilla bean (3 in. long), split lengthwise 473milliliters

(1 pt.) whipping cream

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Southern on the menu? Try pairing with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. The Schloss Vollrads Riesling Spatlese with a 4 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 29 dollars per bottle.