Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, egg tart. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The Hong Kong egg tarts I've had in SF and in Hong Kong always had a puff pastry kind of crust so next time I'll use puff pastry. I had to use almost an extra stick of butter for. Cool down for several minutes and then take the egg tarts out of the pan.
Egg tart is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Egg tart is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook egg tart using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Egg tart:
- Get 100 grams sugar
- Make ready 1 egg
- Take 175 grams butter
- Make ready 350 gram plain flour
- Get 6 eggs
- Get 4 egg yolks
- Take 200 ml golden syrup
- Make ready 200 ml fresh milk
- Take 200 ml water
- Make ready 2 tsp honey
Also used all half and half instead of a combo of heavy cream and milk. Nowadays, egg tarts come in all kind of flavors such as milk tarts, honey-egg tarts, ginger-flavored egg tarts, chocolate egg tarts, green-tea-flavored egg tarts, and even bird's nest tarts. To make easy egg tarts, mix together a sweet pastry dough and line small tart tins with it. Then whisk together a filling of eggs, sugar syrup, milk, and vanilla.
Steps to make Egg tart:
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Pastry: Place sugar, egg and butter in mixer and beat until sugar is just dissolved. Add sifted plain flour and mix until dough holds together. Take a teaspoon of dough and create the base on the tart cases. Add more to create the sides. Make sure there are no cracks and dough is pressed firmly into cases. Bake at 180°C for 8 minutes, remove from cases and let cool.
- Golden syrup: Dissolve 140 gm sugar in 120 ml water and bring to boil. Add 2 slices of lemon and let cool.
- Custard: Lightly beat eggs and egg yolks. Combine egg mixture with golden syrup, water, milk and honey. Mix well and strain.
- Pour custard into half balked pastry shells and bake at 170°C until custard is set.
- Open oven door slightly to release heat so the custard doesn't burn.
On a lightly floured surface, trim the ends of the dough to make sure they're even, then cut the log into thirty ½-inch slices. Place each slice into the cavity of an egg tart mold or muffin. 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. Ah, the sweet, sweet taste of colonial expansion. You can buy Hong Kong egg tarts at Chinese bakeries, where you might be lucky enough to get a warm one.
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