Crema catalana

From my trip to Barcelona :)

Ingredients: 750 ml skimmed milk, 1 tsp crushed fennel seeds, 1 cinnamon stick, 150 g caster sugar,zest from 1 lemon, zest from 1 orange, 2 whole eggs, plus 6 yolks, 40 g cornflour, 80 g brown sugar.

Put the milk, fennel seeds, cinnamon and 100 g of the sugar in a pan and bring to the boil.


Grate the lemon and orange and add it to the boiling milk. Take from the heat and let infuse for 10 -15 min.



Put the eggs, egg yolkes ans the rest of the sugar into a bowl.


Whisk for 30 sec.


Add the cornflour.


Mix well.


Slowly strain the milk through a sieve into the egg mixture stirring with the whisk all the time.



Cook the mixture over a low heat for 3 min, until thickened , stirring all the time with the whisk.
Pour the mixture into small dishes.




Leave to cool, then put it in the fridge for 2 hours.
You can serve it like that. or burn some sugar on top.