Flan de maiz (polenta cream with mango sauce)

Name: Flan de maiz (polenta cream with mango sauce)
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 600 ml Milk; 70 g Sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Cinnamon; 1 pck. Vanilla sugar; 150 g Polenta (corn semolina; instant); 2 TABLESPOONS Butter; 100 g Double cream cheese; 1 Lime; 2-3 stem/s Mint; 1 Pitahaya (dragon fruit); 1 ripe mango; 1 TABLESPOON liquid honey

AUTHOR
Reed Chan

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

In the original, the dessert, flavoured with vanilla and cinnamon, is called "postre con queso fresco y semola de maiz". Sounds tempting and we promise It is!

COOK TIME
20 mins

TOTAL TIME
140 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4

600 ml Milk
70 g Sugar
7-10 Tbsp Cinnamon
1 pck. Vanilla sugar
150 g Polenta (corn semolina; instant)
2 TABLESPOONS Butter
100 g Double cream cheese
1 Lime
2-3 stem/s Mint
1 Pitahaya (dragon fruit)
1 ripe mango
1 TABLESPOON liquid honey

Directions

1
Bring milk, sugar, 1⁄2 tsp. cinnamon and vanilla sugar to the boil while stirring. Add polenta while stirring. Simmer at low heat for about 5 minutes. Stir in butter and cream cheese. Divide into four bowls, let cool down, then put in a cool place.
2
Halve the lime and squeeze it. Wash mint, shake dry, pluck off leaves and chop coarsely. Peel the pitahaya, cut into cubes and marinate with lime juice and mint.
3
Peel the mango, cut the flesh off the stone and dice it roughly. Finely puree the mango and honey with a hand blender. Arrange polenta cream with pitahaya and mango sauce.