Easy Way to Cook Perfect Egg Tart
- By Juan Powell
- 11 Feb, 2020
Hello everybody, welcome to our recipe page. Today I will show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, Egg Tart. It is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna really delicious.
Egg Tart Recipe. You can reduce the sugar used on the crust and the filling to fit your taste, this recipe is lightly sweetened. If you want to you, can add more sugar to the filling.
You can have Egg Tart using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Egg Tart
- It’s 4 of eggs.
- You need 180 ml of water.
- Take 1 tsp of salt.
- You need 1/4 cup of evap milk.
- You need of Vanilla.
- You need 2 cups of flour.
- Make ready 115 g of butter.
- Take 2 of eggs.
Egg tart made with Chinese puff pastry is one of the best Chinese desserts among the dim sum spread in Cantonese cuisine.When I traveled on a bus one day during my holidays in Hong Kong, I saw "Road Show" that was a TV program, showing former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten also liked eating egg tarts.There are two kinds of tart shells, one is puff pastry-like (酥皮底), the other cookie-like(牛油皮底).The governor liked the latter, just like me.
Egg Tart instructions
- Making crust::: place butter at room temp until softened. Cream butter and sugar with mixer unti it become smooth and fluffy. Add in egg and vanilla and mix again.
- Sift flour in 2 batches, scrape sides of the bowl between additions with a spatula and knead dough.
- Roll the dough to a 1/2 cm thickness. Cut dough and form like a tart tin. Lightly press the dough with your thumb. Starting from the bottom then up to the sides.. While pressing the dough turn the tart tin clockwise/anti clockwise in order to make even tart shell. Trim any excess dough.
- Mix 2 eggs, sugar, 180 ml water, evap milk and vanilla. Whisk all. Carefully pour mixture into tart shell. Then pre heat oven to 200c for 10 mins then lower the heat to 180c.Then put in tarts and bake for 55 mins.
Each of these dainty baked tarts are the perfect size for one person.The flavor of Hong Kong egg tarts fresh from the oven is simply amazing.Having them right out of the oven is a whole new experience against the lukewarm version you get from the store.
This egg custard tart recipe appears as the technical challenges in the Pies & Tarts episode of The Great British Baking Show.Get the recipe at PBS Food.Generously flour work surface and dough.Make the puff pastry: In a small bowl, whisk the butter until it is the consistency of sour cream.In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook, combine the flour, water.