Saturday, February 09, 2008

#287 : Portuguese egg tart: recipe #171


I was doing my test papers the other day when my hubby asked me to watch the programme on Macau food. One of the sought after desserts are the tarts. These tarts are different as puff pastry is used instead of the normal short-crust pastry. The burnt looking custard filling is actually the "signature" of these tarts. I have all the ingredients in my kitchen so I made 6 of these. So here we go...

Ingredients:
Puff pastry ( made from scratch or buy ready made from supermarkets)
butter (to brush the muffin pan)

filling:
1/3 cup whip cream
1/3 cup milk
1/3 sugar
4 egg yolks

STEPS:
- roll out the puff pastry, and cut it to your desired size.
- brush the inside of the pans with butter, so the pastry doesn't stick
- to prepare the filling: beat the yolk with sugar, slowly add in the milk and cream mixture.
-pour the filling to the pastry prepared earlier.
-bake at 190C for about 10 minutes or until the custard is set and the pastry is crispy .

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