Amazing Recipes Eps 9

PORTUGUESE EGG TARTS

Ingredients For Pastry

600 grams   all-purpose flour

150 grams    butter

¼ tsp            salt

1 tbsp           lemon juice

1 nos             egg

170 ml           water

300 grams     pastry margarine

Method

= Use rub in method to mix flour and butter.

= Then add in the lemon juice, egg, salt and water.

= Divide the pastry margarine into 2 parts.

= Roll the pastry into a rectangular shape and place one part of the pastry margarine on 2/3 of the dough. Fold into three, bringing down 1/3 of the pastry from the top to fold over the centre. Repeat this one single turn procedure with the rest of the pastry margarine.

= Repeat 3 more times and rest 10 minutes after each single turn.

= Finally roll the dough into a cylindrical shape and cut 1 cm each.

= Put dough onto Portuguese tart moulds or muffin moulds.

FILLING FOR PORTUGUESE EGG TART

Ingredients

400 grams double cream

600 grams fresh milk

200 grams sugar

140 grams egg whites

140 grams egg yolks

METHOD

= Dissolve the sugar in the warm double cream and milk.

= Cool (1) above and add  in the egg whites and yolk.

= Strain the mixture before using.

= Pour mixture into moulds lined with puff pastry.

= Bake at 200 C for 20 minutes.