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How to Make Dulce de Leche
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Chef John
"This is basically sweet, caramelized milk. It's so easy and so delicious. I like it better than caramel sauce on anything you'd use caramel sauce, such as on ice cream, toast, cookies, cakes, brownies, or to pour on people."
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Ingredients
3 h 5 m servings 157Original recipe yields 8 servings
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Wash the nail and pound it into the top of can of sweetened condensed milk to make 2 small holes on opposite sides of the top. Remove nail.
- Place the can of condensed milk into a small saucepan and pour in water to reach high up the side of the can. Bring water to a boil; reduce heat to low. Simmer milk in the can for 3 to 4 hours. Milk will slowly turn light to medium brown and become thicker as it cooks. Add more water as it boils down.
- Remove lid from can and pour dulce de leche into a bowl. Whisk to break up any lumps and mix thicker caramel from the bottom into the rest of the syrup.
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Most helpful positive review
12/2/2018
I took note of the caution about using metal cans as cooking utensils and decided to transfer the sweetened condensed milk into a ball canning glass jar. I left the top slightly loose for ventin...
Most helpful critical review
8/3/2018
Never heat food in a can. Cans are lined with BPA and/or other toxic chemicals. Heating cans leaches the chemicals into food - particularly fatty foods like milk! The EPA and FDA both has public...
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12/2/2018
I took note of the caution about using metal cans as cooking utensils and decided to transfer the sweetened condensed milk into a ball canning glass jar. I left the top slightly loose for ventin...
8/3/2018
Never heat food in a can. Cans are lined with BPA and/or other toxic chemicals. Heating cans leaches the chemicals into food - particularly fatty foods like milk! The EPA and FDA both has public...
7/28/2014
This is excellent! It's helpful to have a large pan of simmering water on the stove to maintain the water level in the small pan without changing the water temperature. I simmered mine exactly f...
5/2/2016
Great Recipe! I had a spare can of sweetened condensed milk. With the wonderful cross-filing system of Allrecipes, it was easy to find a recipe using that (one!) ingredient . Marysunshine1's su...
10/4/2017
I followed the recipe exactly with 2 nail holes on top and cooked the canned condensed milk for a little over four hours. When I open the cans, they looked exactly like uncooked condensed milk, ...
3/31/2017
I made it, and when it cools down its really thick but it works....
4/16/2019
Make sure your can is magnetic with a common fridge magnet to assure its safe to boil! Otherwise this recipe works great!!!!! I made it to put in my dulce de leche apple empanadas ??
9/19/2017
Excellent, easy and delicious. You can cook it to a thicker or even soft solid consistency also. Be very careful to keep a close watch that the water does all evaporate!