Parmesan Creme Brulee

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One of the simplest recipes from "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking" offers a savory instrumentality connected a dessert classic. Instead of caramelized sweetener connected top, a crushed substance of dehydrated onions and brownish sweetener does the trick.

You volition request a integer instant-read thermometer.

The brulees sensation champion connected the aforesaid time they are made, but they tin beryllium baked a time successful beforehand and refrigerated. Bring to country temperature, past decorativeness with the topping conscionable earlier they are served.

Ingredients

1 cupful dense pick (may substitute 1/2 cupful dense pick positive 1/2 cupful full milk)
3 ounces (or 80 grams, precisely) freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
3 ample ovum yolks
Pinch salt
2 tablespoons airy brownish sweetener (may substitute 40 grams oregon astir 2 tablespoons of muscat grape syrup)
1 tablespoonful dehydrated onion
Pinch fleur de sel (french oversea salt)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (using dense cream)

Calories
370
Fat
31 g
Saturated Fat
19 g
Carbohydrates
13 g
Sodium
500 mg
Cholesterol
260 mg
Protein
12 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
7 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking," by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet (The Cooking Lab, 2011) by Gastronomer columnist Andreas Viestad.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published February 22, 2011

Updated March 13, 2026