Desserts

Zabala

Zabala is a sweet Uruguayan dessert made from melted caramel and milk, with a texture somewhat like a soft flan or a caramel custard coated in syrup. It is traditionally served at the end of a meal, well chilled.

40 min
4 servings
Advanced
Budget-friendly
🇺🇾 Uruguay

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Ingredients

Spices & seasoning

Cinnamon stick (optional)

Nutrition facts

296 kcal per serving

Protein: 9 g
Carbohydrates: 46.5 g
Fat: 7.9 g
of which saturated fat: 3.8 g
Fiber: 0 g

Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.

Instructions

Make a caramel with 100 g of sugar in a saucepan over medium heat, until golden amber. Pour it straight away into a buttered loaf tin or ramekins.
Heat the milk with the remaining sugar, the vanilla and the cinnamon, without letting it boil.
In a bowl, whisk the eggs with the cornflour and salt, then pour in the hot milk in a thin stream while whisking.
Pour the mixture over the caramel and place the tin in a hot water bath, halfway up the oven preheated to 160 °C.
Bake for about 30 minutes, until the centre just trembles. Leave to cool, then refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
Turn out by inverting the tin onto a deep dish, so the caramel spreads around it.