Caramel Recipe Dulce De Leche HOW TO COOK THAT Ann Reardon

Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon Today we are going to make dulce de leche from scratch. Dulce de leche is a really thick delicious caramel flavoured sauce that you can use on its own or in a number of other recipes. To start with place your sugar and milk into a large saucepan. For all the recipe quantities visit the blog at howtocookthat.net there's a link in the description below this video. Then add you bicarb of soda. And stir over the heat until the sugar is dissolved and it just starts bubbling. If you leave it on high heat the milk will bubble right up and even if you have a large pan it's going to boil over. So if you have a gas cooktop turn the heat down at that point, if you are using electric move it to a new element and turn that one to low-medium heat. Wash down the sides of the pan using a pastry brush dipped in water. and then leave over the low heat, mine was on setting 3, so that it's just simmering, you should see bubbles constantly. If it's not bubbling it's not hot enough. This is going to take just over an hour for it to turn into dulce de leche. Every 15 minutes during the cooking process use a fine metal sieve to remove any build up of froth and then wash down the sides of the pan again using the pastry brush. And then leave it alone to bubble away After an hour it looks like this. It still looks thin but darkened in colour, remove the froth again and then check it every few minutes because suddenly it will turn from the thin liquid into this thick bubbling caramel. Immediately pour it through a sieve so that if any little bits of caramel have caught on the bottom of the pan you don't have them in your sauce. And then leave it in a bowl for a few hours to cool completely. And it will thicken as it cools. For more videos click on the How To Cook That banner and subscribe for more desserts, chocolate, cake decorating tutorials and sweet snacks. I'll see you next week [music by youtube.com/setsailtv�