Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, egg tart. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The best Hong Kong egg tarts are made from the Chinese puff pastry, which is slightly different from the western puff pastry. This pastry is less oily than the western version with a more floury flavor. The soft and flaky texture of the crust and the warm and sweet taste of the egg custard makes a great combination for a comforting cozy breakfast. Egg tarts are my favorite Chinese dessert.
Egg Tart is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Egg Tart is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have egg tart using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Egg Tart:
- Take Pastry dough
- Prepare 2 cups flour
- Make ready 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- Get 115 g butter
- Take 1/8 tsp salt
- Get 1 egg whisk
- Get Drop vanilla
- Take Custard filling
- Get 4 eggs beaten
- Take 4 tbsp sugar
- Make ready 3/4 cup hot water
- Prepare 1/8 tsp salt
- Make ready 1/4 cup evaporated milk
- Take Milk flavor or vanilla (opt)
These Cantonese egg tarts are classic pastry in Hong Kong, with buttery, crisp and crumbly tart shell, silky smooth custard inside. 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. Egg tart is one of the delicacies that can be found in most Asian countries, especially in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.
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. 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). You can reduce the sugar used on the crust and the filling to fit your taste. The Portuguese egg tart eventually made its way to Hong Kong, where it was influenced by British custard tarts, which are a bit more glassy and smooth.
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