Desserts needn’t be sugar-packed to be tasty. This delicious sweet potato flan is naturally sweetened with just a little honey and has a warm spicy flavour.
What is a flan?
Flans are strange beings, a baked pudding that really should be in a pie case but appears rather as a nudist and somewhat vulnerable without one.
However, you look at it though flans are a seriously tasty dessert and just because they can’t be handheld like a pie that should never be held (or spooned/forked) against them! This is a refined sugar-free sweet potato flan that is gluten-free too.
Ingredients for sweet potato flan
- Sweet potatoes – Now sweet potatoes may seem a strange veggie to put into a dessert but their very sweetness makes them the perfect vehicle for this spicy creamy confection that will brighten up your tea time or finish a meal perfectly.
- Honey – I don’t use any refined sugar in this sweet potato flan recipe just a teaspoonful of runny honey to perk things up a bit.
- Spices – The warmth of the turmeric, ginger and cinnamon add so much flavour to the sweet potato base.
- Natural yogurt – You get a lovely tang with natural yogurt to balance things out, you end up with something that ticks the boxes for sweet yet just a tad tart – and of course a flan and not a tart at all. Hey let’s not get into that one again…..
Yogurt
I use yogurt in a whole host of recipes and like to make my own. Check out these posts on how to make your own homemade natural yogurt (+Video!) and how to make Greek style yogurt.
How to make sweet potato flan
I love desserts that take little effort other than maybe beating things together.
This is one such recipe, just a matter of mixing all your ingredients in a bowl and spooning them into a baking tin and baking for 25-30 mins.
Then voila! you have a sweet potato flan that will tickle the taste buds and be kind to the waistline too.
What size of flan does this make?
By the way I have made a small flan here using a 15cm/6″ baking tin. This will make either 4n small slices or 2 large slices of sweet potato flan.
Want to make it bigger? Then simply multiply the ingredients listed below and use a bigger tin.
How to serve sweet potato flan
I serve mine with plain Greek yogurt. This keeps the calories down.
However feel free to serve this flan with a really nice vanilla ice-cream instead or whipped cream.
Looking for more super easy desserts to make at home? Then check these out before you go;
Easy traditional French style cherry clafoutis
Greek fig and feta tart with honey and thyme
Warm fruit salad with golden yogurt sauce
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Refined Sugar Free Sweet Potato Flan
Equipment
- 15cm/6" baking tin
Ingredients
- 1 cup of cooked sweet potato mashed
- 4 tbsp natural yogurt
- 2 eggs beaten
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp honey
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4
- Beat together all ingredients either in a mixer or by hand.
- Spoon into a loose based pie tin lined with a piece of baking parchment
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until almost firm on top but with a slight jiggle.
- Allow to cool before removing from tin.
- Serve with yogurt/cream or even ice-cream.
what size pan should be used?
I used a small 7″ dish for mine
K x
Could this be adapted to an Instant Pot using a flan pan?
Sorry no idea what an instant pot is