Mini Custard Puff Pastries - Pastelis De Natas

Mini Custard Puff Pastries - Pastelis De Natas


These are Portuguese Custard Tarts / Pasteis de Natas, devotedly handmade to a 300-from a year-old recipe, with a thick creamy egg custard, sitting comfortably in a cozy puff of puff pastry and just asking to be eaten.


Enjoy them with a sprinkling of berries or stick religiously to tradition. Also, add other things to it, like icing sugar or cinnamon.

Want more traditional.

Now you know that the typical Portuguese Pastelis De Natas is a little bigger and a bit browner on the top, but this is the way I like it and made it smaller for a two-bite treat. I just find that my guests like this better.


If you want them more traditional, then just make the puff pastry about 50% larger and a bit thicker. Also, bake it a bit longer to get more of the browning on top...
Any way you make them, they will be awesome.


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Recipe;

I Pkg. - Pre-made pastry dough.

1 1/2  Cups - Whole milk
1 Egg -  Whole
2 Egg -  Yolks
1 Stick - Cinnamon
1/ 2  - lemon peel

1 Cup - Water
1 to 1 1/2 Cups -  Sugar

1 to 2 Tsp. - Vanilla extract
2 Tbsp. - Corn starch


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After pressing the dough down, use your thumbs to press it to the sides of the tray pockets. If you keep moving the tray around, so your fingers are always pressing the dough away from you, will make it easier. 

For a larger custard, then add about 50% more dough and  let it be a bit higher in the tray pocket rim. 

After the tray has been in a hot oven for about 10 to 12 minutes, bring it out, and then push the middle down in order to create a center pocket in the dough. It will all adjust when you add the custard and fill out. 

Add as much as you want of lemon peel and cinnamon. Have it as tart as you would like. 

Remember not to let it go to a full boil, but only a simmering boil. Once it reaches its simmer, then let it go for 3 minutes, but keep an eye on it.   For it could overfill the pot and make a mess. 

Add the corn starch when the mixture is starting to get warm, if it gets too hot then it will become globes of dough. 

As you reach this stage, it is very important to keep on stirring so it will not burn and we want a smooth blend. 

When the hot mixture sticks to your whisk and slowly slides off slowly, then you know it is ready. 

  

Caution is needed to keep on stirring, because as the custard becomes thicker, then the chances of it burning will increase. 

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Mini Custard Puff Pastries - Pastelis De Natas

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