Try my stress-free Instant Pot Filipino Leche Flan Recipe. This Filipino version is made with eggs and milk for a custard-like texture, giving you a thick and smooth Leche flan that comes topped with homemade caramel sauce.
Filipino Leche Flan
A Filipino party is never complete without at least 2 Leche Flans on the dessert table. I’m sure you’re wondering what the real difference between a Filipino Leche Flan and another Flan recipe.
Let me tell you first that you will never truly know until you actually try one. Secondly, the difference that I personally love about our version is that it’s almost like a custard.
But it’s still got that nice caramel flavor that brings everything together. As you can see in the photos below, there are almost no bubbles, making it an amazingly smooth Instant Pot Filipino Leche Flan Recipe.
Filipino Style Leche Flan
My dad is one of the biggest fans of Filipino Leche Flan in my family. Since it’s normally only made on special occasions, we rarely get to eat it. To be honest, it’s the process that makes it such an unpopular dish to make.
Mainly, the reason why some people don’t enjoy making it is that it involves separating the eggs and attentive oven checks. That is why we typically will only see them on special occasions such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc.
Thanks to my pressure cooker, though, I’m able to bring him these delicious Leche Flans on a weekly basis. Our hips are not so happy about this weekly treat, but our taste buds and hearts are completely happy.
If you loved this Flan recipe, please comment below sharing how you shared your Filipino Leche Flan with your family.
Filipino Leche Flan Cooking Tips
- I highly recommend that when you create this dish, you use a flat-bottom Pyrex/other brands Microwave and Oven safe Clear Bowl. That is what I used in my recipe, and it came out perfect!
- If in any case, your flan is at the tip of being done after you have followed my recipe to a T (it happens sometimes due to weather and altitude issues) Pop it back into the pressure cooker for 5 minutes HIGH and then give it another 10 Minutes of NPR. It should completely finish the dish and be toothpick-perfect.
- Use a flat cooking container; the larger the bowl, the longer it will take to cook.
More Pressure Cooker/ Instant Pot Recipes
- Pressure Cooker Copycat Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup
- Pressure Cooker Chicken Florentine
- Pressure Cooker Filipino Oxtail Soup
- Pressure Cooker Indian Butter Chicken
If you liked this dish, check out my Pressure Cooker Beef Tapa Recipe. For more Pressure Cooker Recipe head over HERE to find a list of other delicious meals you can try with your family.
Pressure Cooker Filipino Leche Flan
Try my stress-free Instant Pot Filipino Leche Flan Recipe. This Filipino version is made with eggs and milk for a custard-like texture, giving you a thick and smooth Leche flan that comes topped with homemade caramel sauce. It completes any celebration or event and is found at many Filipino dessert tables.
Ingredients
- 10 Egg Yolks
- 1 Can of Condensed Milk
- 1 Can of Evaporate Milk
- 1/2 Cup of Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon of Vanilla
- 2 Cups of Water
- Caramel
- 2 Flat bottom Pyrex 7" Bowls
- 5 "-7" Trivet
- Optional: Fashion a Foil handle by rolling out a long piece of foil and folding it lengthwise. MUST be long enough to wrap around bowl and act as handles
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl separate egg whites and egg yolks. Set Egg whites in a storage container and keep in the fridge for other recipes.
- Wisk the egg yolks together until well blended DO NOT OVER MIX.
- Slowly mix in condensed milk, and then evaporate milk, Mix well
- Mix in the sugar and vanilla DO NOT OVER MIX YOU DONT WANT BUBBLES!
- Dump the water into the pot and then add the trivet.
- In 2 Pyrex Bowls pour in caramel at the bottom of the bowls to cover entire bottoms.
- Split the liquid mix into the two bowls evenly.
- Cover each of the bowls with foil tapping sides gently to release any extra bubbles.
- Use the foil handle you fashioned earlier to prop the bowl on top of and then place onto of trivet.
- Fold handles down on top of the bowl and then place the lid on and lock.
- Cook on Manual 16 Minutes with a 10 minute NPR
- Remove and then do a toothpick check. If the toothpick comes out clean then load in the other bowl of leche flan and repeat cook time above.
- Once both are finished place in the fridge overnight (the longer it sits the better!).
- To serve simply use a spatula to gently separate the flan from the sides of the bowl, and then use a larger plate to flip onto. TO FLIP use a large plate and place it on top of the bowl, once you have it safely secured flip the bowl and then twist side to side slowly until the flan falls.
- Serve any time of the day with a hot cup of coffee.
- Enjoy!
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Hi Jay!
Do you cook at low or medium pressure? Also, I live in Denver, so I’m at higher altitude. Any suggestion for altitude differences?
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Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! It was so easy and turned out just like my Auntie’s leche flan — so now we don’t have to wait for special holiday get-togethers for our leche flan fix!!!
That’s Fantastic! I’m so happy you are able to enjoy it more often now. I think my family overindulges in this because it’s so easy to make now LOL, even though there is no such thing as too much leche flan 😉 .
Is the condensed milk in the recipe “sweetened” condensed milk? Is the Carmel any Carmel sauce I can purchase in a jar? Thanks. It looks delicious!
I love flan and have made it at home sometimes. Should give this pressure cooker method a try sometime.
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Ahhh this is my fave of all. I can eat this everyday and I am so happy that you shared this :* Gonna surprise the fam this weekend I am sooo excited 😀
I missed cooking leche flan it is my most favorite dessert, I am craving for it….
Weeee!!! A new way to cook Leche Flan? Will tell my mom to try this out! Thank you
I have never heard of this but it looks delicious. I am going to give it a try. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Guess who’s going to try this this weekend?! I LOVE leche flan. It’s one of my fav filipino sweets.
I had flan for the first time ever about a year ago. It was good. I do love custard so I bet I’d love your version too.
It does look really nice and I love custard. Can you cook it without a pressure cooker though as I do not have one.
This looks delicious! I actually just decided to break up with my Instant Pot… though now I want to try this
This looks delicious. I would love to try it.
I love that there’s so much that you can cook in a pressure cooker! This recipe looks delightful and I sure would love to prepare for the family!
Flan is one of my favorites. I will definitely be trying your recipe soon! Yum.
Can you use Pyrex in the instant pot? I was reading your leche flan recipes.
Hi Josie, you can so long as the pyrex you are using is oven safe. I have used mini ceramics, and pyrex bowls many times! I hope you try and enjoy this recipe, please come back and let us know what you thought.
– Jay