This amazing day, it’s Drew, welcome to my cooking learning site. Now, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, egg tart. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The egg tart is a kind of custard tart found in Cantonese cuisine deriving from the English custard tart and Portuguese pastel de nata. The dish consists of an outer pastry crust filled with egg custard. Egg tarts are often served at dim sum restaurants and cha chaan tengs. The best Hong Kong egg tarts are made from the Chinese puff pastry, which is slightly different from the western puff pastry.
Egg Tart is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Egg Tart is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have egg tart using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Egg Tart:
- Prepare Pastry dough
- Take 2 cups flour
- Prepare 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- Take 115 g butter
- Take 1/8 tsp salt
- Get 1 egg whisk
- Prepare Drop vanilla
- Make ready Custard filling
- Make ready 4 eggs beaten
- Get 4 tbsp sugar
- Get 3/4 cup hot water
- Make ready 1/8 tsp salt
- Get 1/4 cup evaporated milk
- Prepare Milk flavor or vanilla (opt)
Remove the tart tins from the refrigerator and carefully pour egg filling into each each. Spray the tart pan with a light coating of oil. Take one portion of your dough and roll it into a ball and Cool down for several minutes and then take the egg tarts out of the pan. You can reduce the sugar used on the crust and the filling to fit your taste.
Instructions to make Egg Tart:
- Cream butter and sugar until smooth, fluffy and light in colour
- Add egg and vanilla flavor. Mix well
- Sift flour in two batches and add to the egg mixture. Mix till well combined and knead into a dough
- Roll out dough to 1/2cm thickness. Cut dough with a round cookie cutters or you can use you hand to form it
- Line the dough in the middle of your tart tin. Lightly press the dough down and with your thumbs, start forming the bottom then up to the sides. Trim away the excess dough as shown in the picture below
- Custard making: add sugar into hot water mix until completely dissolved. Whisk egg with evaporated or milk powder. Pour in sugar water. Add milk flavor and mix well
- Sift the egg mixture in a separate bowl or measuring cup. Pour egg mixture into tart shell
- Preheat oven to 200°C. and bake tart for 10-15min until edges are lightly brown. Lower heat to 180°C and keep an eye on them. Once the custard puffed up a bit, pull the oven door open a bit. Bake for another 10-15min until custard is cooked or toothpick stand on it's own in the custard. See picture below
- Tadaa!!! Ready. Enjoy
- Note: you can choose to reduce or add more sugar to your custard. Addition of flavor also enhance the taste and if you're using salted butter, there's no need to add more salt
Take one portion of your dough and roll it into a ball and Cool down for several minutes and then take the egg tarts out of the pan. You can reduce the sugar used on the crust and the filling to fit your taste. Egg tart is one of the delicacies that can be found in most Asian countries, especially in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Egg tart was introduced to Hong Kong as a kind of "dim sum" (snack). Chinese egg tart variety is believed to be a cross between the classic British egg custard, which is much creamier than the Chinese tart, and the famous Portuguese tarts, known as pastéis de nata.
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