🇵🇹 Portugal cuisine · #4
Pastel de Nata
Time60 min
Serves12
Ingredients9
Egg custard tarts in crisp puff pastry with tops scorched in a blazing oven, dusted with cinnamon — the symbol of Lisbon.
Ingredients
Method
- Roll the pastry into a log, slice, and press each slice into a muffin tin from the centre out.
- Boil sugar, water, cinnamon and peel for 2 minutes.
- Cook milk with flour until thick, add the syrup, then the yolks once lukewarm.
- Fill the cases three-quarters full.
- Bake at maximum heat (250–280°C) for 12 minutes until scorched in spots.