Homemade evaporated milk is a nice substitute when you don’t have a can of evaporated milk at home.
If you add some sugar after cooking, you can make sweetened condensed milk. For sugar-free version, use sugar substitute like stevia or Splenda.
Evaporated Milk Substitute
Cook Time
1 hr 15 mins
Evaporated Milk Substitute
Course:
Side Dish
Cuisine:
American
Keyword:
evaporated milk substitute
Ingredients
- FOR EVAPORATED MILK:
- 1 liter (1 quart) milk - dairy or nondairy
- FOR CONDENSED MILK:
- 200 g sugar or sugar substitute equivalent to 1 cup sugar, stevia or 1 1/2 cup Splenda or some other sweetener
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon butter (optional)
Instructions
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In a heavy-bottomed (9 inch, 24 cm) pan, bring the milk to a boil over medium-low heat.
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Put the heat as low as it can go and simmer (stirring often to keep the milk from burning) for about 1 hour and 15 minutes (if you use smaller pan or pot you will need to cook longer). The goal is to reduce the quantity of milk by approximately 60 %.
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This is your sugar free evaporated milk. To make condensed milk, at this point add your sugar substitute of choice, vanilla extract and butter. Remove from heat and let cool before using. The mixture will thicken some more after it has cooled.
THANK YOU! I normally see a recipe that calls for either of these and just keep going cos I don’t / didn’t have a good sub. Thanks so much!!!
You are welcome! I’m glad I could be of help.
Please clarify the directions for the recipe. The first step for the evaporated milk says to heat the milk and sugar to a reduced volume. Then if I want to make condensed milk, I need to add the sugar, etc. I’m confused about the sugar. Could it be that I just heat the milk (no sugar) for the evaporated milk? If not, how much sugar do I heat with the milk to make evaporated milk? And to make condensed milk, do I add the 1 cup as stated in the instructions?
In the first step boil milk to reduce its volume and get evaporated milk.
If you want to get condensed milk, at the end of cooking add sugar to get condensed milk. You will need 1 cup (200 g) sugar per each liter (quart) of milk.