Macau Style Egg Tarts
Macau Style Egg Tarts

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, macau style egg tarts. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

You must be familiar with Hong Kong style egg tarts if you like Cantonese dim sum. Since Macau is just a short boat ride from Hong Kong, the locals had modified the original Portuguese egg tarts and served them along with other Cantonese dim sums for breakfast. Macau is a city near Hong Kong and they are famous for Egg Tarts.

Macau Style Egg Tarts is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Macau Style Egg Tarts is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook macau style egg tarts using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Macau Style Egg Tarts:
  1. Make ready Puff Shell
  2. Prepare Frozen puff pastry
  3. Prepare Aluminium Foil Shells
  4. Make ready Fillings
  5. Take Egg
  6. Get White Sugar
  7. Make ready Hot Water
  8. Take Evaporated Milk
  9. Make ready Salt

While there at subtle differences in taste between Cantonese and Macau (Portuguese) style egg tarts, the visible traits are quite clear due to the slightly burnt top, which. 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.

Steps to make Macau Style Egg Tarts:
  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!

Common to a lot of the Portuguese speaking world, this recipe is a recreation of the Macau style egg tarts. Most of the prep time is waiting for the dough to rest. Add the shortening, salt, the one whole egg, and water together and mix until it forms into a smooth ball. Portuguese Egg Tarts - this easy egg tart recipe calls for store-bought ingredients for the tastiest little dessert ever! Small Batch Macau Style Portuguese Egg Tart.

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