Portuguese Egg Tarts - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    Ingredients for oil dough
    30 g shortening
    30 g pastry margarine
    60 g hong kong flour
    Ingredients for dough
    60 g plain flour
    12 g eggs
    5 g shortening
    1/2 teaspoon caster sugar
    1 1/2 tablespoons water
    1 drop yellow food coloring
    Ingredients for Egg Filling
    5 egg yolks
    90 g caster sugar
    75 g evaporated milk
    175 g dairy whipping cream
    250 ml uht milk (full cream milk)
Preparation
    Mix well the egg and sugar.
    Add in the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
    Leave aside for later use.
    Method for Oil Dough: Put all ingredients together to make into a dough.
    Keep in the fridge for abt 15 minutes Method for Dough: Put all ingredients into mixing bowl and mix to a dough.
    Method for assembling: Roll the dough to 1 cm thick and fold in the oil dough.
    Roll it to 2 single and 2 double fold.
    Keep in the fridge for 30 minutes Roll the dough to 1/2 cm thick and cut the size required.
    Put in the mould and pour in the egg filling and bake at 180C for 15 minutes Notes: The egg fillings is enough for 2 recipe of the dough.
    So if you are doing 1 whole recipe of the egg filling, then double the dough recipe.

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