Idiazabal Cheese and St. George's Mushrooms Flan with Berries.

Did you know that you can use mushrooms for desserts?

Ingredients for 24 portions:

- 12 Eggs
- 1 liter of whole milk
- 100ml of cream
- Idiazábal Smoked cheese 250g
- St. George's mushrooms  150g
- 24 tablespoons of sugar (two per egg)
- Sugar and water to make caramel
- 150 g of sugar and 150 ml of water  to make sugar syrup
- Mint, berries, crème anglaise



Preparation:

We put 150 g of mushrooms (Calocybe gambosa), 150 g of sugar and 150 ml of water in a saucepan. We let it boil during two minutes and we move it away from the heat. Then we let it stand for half an hour.

Now we will use a non-stick skillet to make caramel with sugar and water. It is important not to burn it, otherwise it gets bitter. Be very careful when handling this sugar, burns with this type of caramel are very serious and painful.

We put a bit of our caramel in the base of our metal moulds.

In a large bowl, we break eggs, we add sugar, and we churn the mix during about three minutes. Then we add milk and cream. Now we can put grated Idiazabal cheese and add our drained mushrooms. We give a blender stroke, not too much, it is important that later we can find small chunks of mushroom and cheese.

We fill our moulds with a ladle, stirring in each of them, mushrooms and cheese always remain at the base of the bowl. We place the moulds into a bowl of hot water that goes into a pan for a water bath at a temperature of 200 ° in the oven.

Now we remove moulds from water bath, and leave them in the fridge during one hour. After this time  we can un-mould the flans without problems.

Hope you enjoy it