What is Flan?
{{Infobox food | name = Flan | image = | caption = Flan | alternate_name = | country = [[Great Britain]] | region = | creator = | course = | type = [[Tart]] | served = | main_ingredient = [[Pastry]] | variations = | calories = | other = }} A '''Flan''' is a kind of [[tart]] found in [[Britain|British]] [[cuisine]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Fort|first=Matthew|title=Food for Fort: An oats mill and french flan:How to roll your own oats, bake a flan nature and get perfect smoked fish|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/15/french-flan-oats-mill-smoked-fish|work=The Guardian|date=14 August 2009 |accessdate=16 July 2013}}</ref> It consists of an open [[pastry]] or [[Sponge cake|sponge]] case holding a sweet or savoury filling. A typical flan is round, with shortcrust pastry. ==Recipe== Flan Brillat-Savarin, a savoury flan named in honour of the French [[gastronomy|gastronome]] [[Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin]]: # Bake blind a savoury flan case # Fill the cooked flan case with a mixture of scrambled eggs and [[truffle]]s # Slice more truffles, heat in butter, season, and arrange on the egg mixture. # Sprinkle with grated [[Parmesan cheese]], and put in an oven or under a grill (broiler) to brown well.<ref>{{cite book |last= Montagné |first= Prosper |author2= Robert J. Coutine |title= ''The concise Larousse gastronomique : the world's greatest cookery encyclopedia.'' |url= https://archive.org/details/conciselarousseg0000mont_a3h4 |publisher= London : Hamlyn |year=2003 |isbn= 0600608638 }}</ref> ==Related pages== * [[Quiche]] ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Pies]] {{food-stub}}