Best Cajeta Crock Pot Method Recipes
CAJETA
Cajeta is another name for fruit pastes, or ates, and is a term still used in certain states, but the most familiar form of cajeta is the sweet caramel made from goat's or cow's milk and cooked down with sugar in copper pots. The goat's milk has a distinctive grassy, musky flavor and is the most commonly used for this application. The name derives from the wooden boxes called cajetes made from tejamanil or ocote (pine). Adding a little corn syrup helps with the sticky consistency, but it can be left out if you prefer to make it the old-fashioned way. This luscious sauce is wonderful to top (warm) or swirl into ice cream, to accompany pancakes, or, better yet, to eat by the spoonful!
Yield makes 1 cup
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Combine the milk, sugar, corn syrup, and salt in a medium, tall, heavy-duty pot. Scrape the vanilla bean into the pot and add the pod (if using vanilla extract or brandy, do not add yet). Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally so it doesn't stick to the bottom. Remove from the heat, add the baking soda, and stir carefully as it will bubble and steam up. When the bubbling has stopped, return it to the heat.
- Adjust the heat so the mixture is at a constant simmer, stirring often so it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan. Once it has turned a golden color, pay more attention and stir more often. Cook until it is thick and a dark caramel color, about 1 hour. (It will get thicker and stickier as it cools.) Remove from the heat. If using vanilla extract or brandy, add it now, being careful not to burn yourself because the cajeta may steam a little. Allow to cool before using. Remove the vanilla bean. (If you feel the caramel has thickened too much once it's cooled, simply stir in a bit of warm water).
CAJETA FLAN WITH CREAM CHEESE
A cross between flan and cheesecake with cajeta (a Mexican goat's milk caramel) I buy cajeta at a local latino market.
Provided by cookiedog
Categories Dessert
Time 4h20m
Yield 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- PREHEAT oven to 350°F Place 1 cup of the sugar in small heavy saucepan; cook on medium heat until sugar is melted and deep golden brown, stirring constantly with wooden spoon. Remove from heat. Immediately pour into 9-inch round baking pan; tilt pan to evenly cover bottom of pan with syrup. Set aside.
- PLACE milk and cream cheese in blender; cover. Blend until smooth. Add remaining 1 cup sugar, the eggs, vanilla and salt; cover. Blend just until smooth; add cajeta and pour into prepared baking pan. Place filled baking pan in larger baking pan; add enough hot water to larger pan to come halfway up side of smaller pan.
- BAKE 50 minute to 1 hour or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cool. Carefully remove flan from water. Cool on wire rack.
- REFRIGERATE several hours or unti chilled. When ready to serve, run a knife around the edge of the pan. Then, invert pan onto serving plate to unmold flan. Store any leftovers in refrigerator. If you have trouble getting the caramel out of the pan, place the bottom of the pan in hot water and then spoon the caramel on the flan.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 422.7, Fat 16.2, SaturatedFat 9.2, Cholesterol 175.8, Sodium 227.9, Carbohydrate 62.1, Fiber 0.1, Sugar 50.3, Protein 9.1
TWENTY-FOUR HOUR CAJETA (DULCE DE LECHE) BY RICK BAYLESS
From Rick Bayless book "Frontera". There is another Bayless cajeta recipe on this site, but it is done on the stove. This one is easier and is made in a crock-pot. Dulce de leche is readily available here in Costa RIca and is very inexpensive. But it doesn't compare to this wonderful recipe. Especially when you make it with fresh, raw goat's milk. Yum!
Provided by Jostlori
Categories Mexican
Time P1D
Yield 3 cups
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Dissolve baking soda in the tablespoon of water. Set aside.
- Pour the milk into the slow cooker. Whisk in the sugar. Add the cinnamon stick and the dissolved baking soda. Stir well.
- Turn slow cooker on high and cook, uncovered, for 24 hours, but see next step before leaving it alone that long.
- After about 18 hours, the cajeta will have darkened into light golden brown. That's when to keep an eye on it. Stir from time to time to make sure it cooks evenly.
- When it is noticeably thick and richly golden, test a couple of drops on a cold plate. The cooled cajeta should be the consistency of caramel sauce. If still a little runny, cook longer until it reaches consistency.
- When cajeta is ready, strain through fine mesh into a bowl or wide mouth storage jar.
- It will keep for a month or more, covered, in the refrigerator. But who could possibly leave it for a month? You'll be wanting to put it on everything!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 932.4, Fat 23.8, SaturatedFat 14.8, Cholesterol 91.1, Sodium 530.1, Carbohydrate 163.6, Sugar 133.1, Protein 21.3
CAJETA
I think of cajeta as the risotto of dessert sauces, since it's made on the stovetop and requires vigilant attention while it simmers and transforms itself from ordinary ingredients (milk and sugar) into a deeply browned, sticky-sweet paste. The first cajeta I tasted was made in Mexico from goat's milk, and it was absolutely the best thing I'd ever tasted. Since you might not be able to find goat's milk, or it may not be to your taste, cow's milk makes yummy cajeta as well. Begin your cajeta in a very large pot, with a capacity of at least 8 quarts (8 liters), since the mixture can bubble up unexpectedly. It should be a heavy-duty pot with a thick bottom. Be sure to pay attention while you're cooking it, especially during the last 20 minutes, when it's vital to keep watch. If you don't stir it constantly during that final stage of cooking, it's likely to scorch on the bottom. If it does, simply strain it to remove any browned bits.
Yield makes 1 1/4 cups (310 ml)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- In a large, heavy-duty Dutch oven or stockpot, heat the milk, sugar, corn syrup, baking soda, cinnamon stick or vanilla bean, and salt until the mixture comes to a boil. As the milk begins to foam up, begin stirring it with a heatproof spatula or wooden spoon.
- Reduce the heat so the milk is at a low, rolling boil and continue to cook, stirring frequently and scraping the bottom, allowing it to reduce.
- After about 20 minutes, the milk will begin to thicken and turn a light beige color. At this point, lower the heat as much as possible (if you have a flame tamer, you may wish to use it), and be vigilant, scraping the bottom constantly as it cooks.
- Continue to cook for about 15 minutes more, stirring vigilantly, until the milk is the color of coffee with a touch of cream. Remove from the heat and allow the Cajeta to cool before serving.
- Cajeta can be layered into ice cream like Fudge Ripple (page 210), in generous spoonfuls as you remove the just-churned ice cream from the machine. This is easiest to do when the cajeta is at room temperature and not chilled.
- Cajeta can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 months. Rewarm it gently in a microwave or by stirring it in a saucepan over very low heat to serve as an accompaniment to ice cream. If it's too thick, you can thin it with a little milk.
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