Portuguese custard tart recipe - pasteis de nata

A long-time favourite of Waz and Lenny finally gets the crash test as they make Portuguese custard tarts, or pasteis de nata - delicious!

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Howto & Style

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• portuguese
• custard
• tarts
• pasteis
• de
• nata
• crash
• test
• kitchen

[crashtestkitchen]

Hi, for those who've asked about the recipe (some complaints were quite rude, so I've deleted them!) it came from Allegra McEvedy, a British chef, who got it from a Portuguese restaurant called Casa dos Pasteis de Belem, which is in Lisbon and is reputed to be one of the first places where pasteis de nata were sold to the public (they were previously made by monks, so the story goes). So the recipe shown in the video is pretty authentic, we think. There will always be different versions.

[ML678v]

@crashtestkitchen Sorry but you dont have the recipe from "Casa dos Pasteis de Belem" you have simple the normal recipe to make "Pasteis de Nata".

[S12345678910Z]

Better luck next time!

[chrysldlg]

hi buy the way the lady is right IT IS puff pastry but it can be made at home . n u stop fighting . lol

[malukitojr]

I also wanted to add that the custard egg tarts you can get in Morrison's are *nothing* (and by that I really mean NOTHING) like the Portuguese egg tarts. The ones in Sainsbury's even gross me out a bit... I think they add some nutmeg to the cream which is just gross!

[malukitojr]

Guys guys... please go to bloody Portugal and try THE Portuguese egg tarts before you say they're "easy to make". The pastry is *all wrong*. That's really not the right pastry at all. The pastry for these cakes is layered and like the guy was saying in the video, it should be flaky, it should fall apart as you eat it.

Here's a pro tip from a Portuguese guy though: don't argue in front of the tarts (and the camera)! Give them some love. Tarts don't like fighting ;)

[hugogohng]

I used puff pastry and it tasted delicious ... I combined milk and cream!

[TwoDogsX2]

just prick the bottom with a fork, lol