Recipe: Appetizing Macau Style Egg Tarts

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Macau Style Egg Tarts. This is a delicious recipe for the Macau Po Egg Tart, a famous Portuguese style egg tart pastry from Macau. These egg tarts come from the original Portuguese Pastéis de Nata recipe and are quite similar, with a twist. They are unbelievably delicious and sweet with a great crispy texture on top.

Most of the prep time is waiting for the dough to rest.

These popular Portuguese style egg tarts are sweet, crisp and have a flaky crust.

The Egg Tart was created in Macau by an English man named Andrew Stow who was inspired by the Portuguese pastel de nata.

You can cook Macau Style Egg Tarts using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Macau Style Egg Tarts

  1. Prepare of Puff Shell.

  2. It’s 1 Sheet of Frozen puff pastry.

  3. You need 12 Pcs of Aluminium Foil Shells.

  4. You need of Fillings.

  5. Prepare 2 Pcs of Egg.

  6. It’s 70 g of White Sugar.

  7. Prepare 140 ml of Hot Water.

  8. You need 110 ml of Evaporated Milk.

  9. Prepare 1/8 Tsp of Salt.

As a result, the Macanese Egg Tart is a veritable icon of mixing of cultures - a pinch of Portuguese, a bit of English, and a dollop of Macanese.

The tarts give out an amazing fragrance of caramel and butter as soon as they.

Egg tart is the short name of egg custard tart.

Homemade yummy Portuguese egg tart with egg tart wrapper recipe and custard filling recipe.

Macau Style Egg Tarts instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 250°C (482°F).

  2. Roll the puff pastry evenly and thinly. Use a round cookies cutter, cut out 12 circular discs to fit in the aluminium foil shells. Gently use fingers to adjust the shape to of the pastries, ensure it fits well. Do not stretch the pastries..

  3. Cover the puff pastries with parchment paper. Put pie weights on the pastries and bake for 10 minutes at the middle deck..

  4. In a measuring cup, mix hot water (boiled) with salt and white sugar. Stir it until all the sugar and salt are dissolved..

  5. Add evaporated milk in the mixture, mix and combine..

  6. In a small bowl, crack two eggs and beat the eggs until they are mixed well..

  7. Pour the egg mixture into the water-milk mixture gradually, stir at the same time to ensure they are well combined..

  8. Prepare another measuring cup and put a sieve on top of it. Pour the mixture into the new measuring cup through the sieve to remove any unmixed eggs or egg shells..

  9. Pour the egg mixture evenly into 12 egg tart puff shell (around 90% full, 32 ml each).

  10. Put the tarts into the preheated oven at the middle deck and bake for 20 mins..

  11. After 20 mins, when the egg custards started to expand and rise, put the baking tray at the top deck to bake for another 10 mins to give the tarts a caramelized surface..

  12. Enjoy the flaky, delicious Macau Egg Tart!.

I have been waiting for quite a long time for a cooler fall here.

I can enjoy homemade perfect egg tart at home.

Very popular Portuguese-style egg tarts, worth a try if you can stand the queue Margaret's e Nata is one of the two famous makers of Portuguese-style egg tarts here in Macau.

I prefer the other, Lord Stow's, but Margaret's is a pretty close second.

Both me and Max I loves Hong Kong egg tarts.