Portuguese Custard Tarts - "Pastéis-de-nata"

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Portuguese Custard Tarts - "Pastéis-de-nata"

This is one of the several possible recipes for the famous portuguese custard tarts. This one is very easy to make and you achieve a good result. Not "the best" result possible, but concerning the work it gives (in this case, it doesn't give any) you couldn't expect more.

• 500 ml milk
  
• 40 g wheat flour
  
• 275 g white sugar
  
• 5 yolks
  
• 1 egg
  
• 1 T butter
  
• 1 pinch of salt
  
• 2 sheets of frozen puff pastry
  

Roll the puff pastry sheets and cut them in 12 slices with abouth 2cm.

Insert each slice of the puff pastry in a muffin pan and adjust it in a way that it covers all the interior, just by pressing it with your fingers. You should be able to still see the traces of the rooling lines of the puff pastry.

For the custard :

Put the milk to the fire with the tablespoon of butter. While it’s on fire mix the flour with the sugar and salt and when the milk raise boil add the flour mixture stirring fast. Take it of the fire and let it cool a little. Then add the egg and the yolks, aromatize with vanilla or lemon.

Fill each muffin pan up till 4/5 of its height.

Bake at 290ºC-300ºC around 8-10 minutes.

Shoulde be served sprinkled with cinnamon and icing sugar.

Eat them while they're still warm.

Keywords: Tart, Easy, Spanish/Portugese, Dessert, Snack

( RG1581 )