How To Make Evaporated Milk – The Panic
Evaporated milk is just regular milk that has had some of the water content boiled off. You can think of it as a richer, milkier, slightly caramelized milk. It’s milk plus, and it’s often called for in recipes that need that extra little bit of richness. Especially desserts. So what do you do when you want to bake a Tres Leche cake in the middle of the night and the only place that stocks evaporated milk closed hours ago? Don’t worry, You can make your own
How To Make Evaporated Milk When In A Pinch
Probably the best way to fill an evaporated milk requirement is to make your own. It’s surprising easy and straight-forward: take some regular milk, and boil it down. Specifically, you want to boil 2.5 cups of milk down to one cup of evaporated milk. This is the removal of 60% of the water. The only real trick here is to make sure you don’t burn the milk too badly. It should be a little bit browned, and have some warm caramel flavors, but not so brown that it doesn’t taste like milk anymore. Use low to medium heat and stir frequently to keep from burning it.
How To Make Evaporated Milk – Plant Based Milk Varieties
If you need some substitution ideas for evaporated milk check this post out.Sometimes, the issue isn’t availability, it’s palatability. For people who have dairy intolerances, milk in any form is a no-no. In that case, it’s often possible to use vanilla flavored soy or almond milk. There are a few tricks that can be used. Of course, if you are making your own, there is no reason why you can you plant based milks instead of regular milk. One thing to be wary of is that the flavor profiles will be different Milk gets a little caramel flavor to it. Soy and almond milk would get beanies and nuttier, respectively. Coconut milk would like get sweeter and have a little caramel nuance to it. These are not big barriers and would likely work quite well in recipes.
How To Make Evaporated Milk – Fat Level
In terms of fat levels, whole or skim milk versions will work fine.
Below is the ‘How To Make Evaporated Milk’ Video to help you get the job done.
