Recipes for Portuguese Tarts

Easy recipe
1. Drive to Lidl
2. Purchase Portuguese tarts
3. Relax and enjoy.

Lidl's are very good. 49 euro cents and they sell out quickly.

Agree about Lidl. Third of the price of any other supermarket offering and tastier. Some things are just not made for home baking !

Maw My first thought when I saw the title was 'Go to Lidl'

With apologies to the OP who was asking for assistance.

Sprinkle with cinnamon, not nutmeg (like English custard tarts)

By coincidence, I was at a WI sub-group meeting tonight, a group of us make dishes at home and take them to someone’s house to share the recipes and taste the food. We have been “going around the world” alphabetically and we’re making recipes from Portugal tonight. Despite the old fashioned image of the WI, not all of us are old, grey haired or great bakers but we have a lot of fun.

One of the contributions tonight were Portuguese Custard Tarts and goodness me, they were pretty awful! Made with bought frozen pastry and filled with a very small quantity of a value range custard! The pastry was not rolled out and cut with a glass so were thick and uneven and the lady making them ran out of time to make the caramelised topping! But they tasted fine with a glass of the quality port that she brought as well!

Certainly the Lidl ones would have been nicer but would not have made us laugh as much. Mind you, due to Covid we sat outside and at 8pm it was dark and freezing so we looked like a Michelin Woman - I wore five layers on my top half and three layers on my bottom half, together with hat, scarf and gloves!!!

Try Paul Hollywood's recipe on line. He chose it as a technical challenge for the Bake-off one year.

I had a go at making them and they turned out pretty good at my 2nd attempt.
I used a recipe off the Internet and to make life easy, as I'm not a good pastry maker, I bought frozen puff pastry.
It was a real faff. You use a huge amount of sugar and make a syrup first then let it cool before adding it to the egg custard which is made with milk infused with cinnamon, about 3 sticks I think.
I will try to find the recipe and post it.

I'm afraid I'm another who can heartily recommend supermarket versions of ready made Portuguese custard tarts.
In my case Sainsburys or Morrisons.

Jamie Oliver’s are very good

I haven’t made any Ali23 but I love them. As others have recommended Lidl’s are baked fresh every day and are delicious, sold individually.
Other posters who come along will be more help I am sure. ?

I love Portuguese tarts shall be off to Lidl except it’s snowing here in the North East!

There is a recipe in Delia Smith's "How to cheat at cooking". It is online at www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/cheat/portuguese-custard-tarts

I haven't tried it, but it doesn't sound too tricky - Delia's recipes are usually straighforward, and work!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=099qXDYutyg

I hope this link works. I watched my friend make them. Delicious.

I use these, much less effort and you can pull them out of the freezer as and when.
www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/unearthed-6-pastel-de-nata/834212-731158-731159

My first thought was racist and sexist

The best I've ever had were ironically in China. Very popular there, too.

Lidl sounds inviting, and frozen ones from Waitrose are very tempting?

Thank you for the recipe suggestions... we will have a look and let you know if we have any success.

Namsnanny

My first thought was racist and sexist

Perhaps spaghetti putanesca would be a suitable recipe for those Portuguese ladies of easy virtue, Namsnanny I think that translates as "tart's spaghetti" because it is a tasty meal that is quick and easy for a tired working girl to make.