Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, south african milk tart / melktert. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
South African Milk Tart / Melktert is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. South African Milk Tart / Melktert is something which I have loved my entire life.
Melktert, also known as South African Milk Tart, is a delicate but decadent dessert. With a flaky crust and topped with a generous dusting of cinnamon, this You might remember her recipes for South African Pannekoek and Cherry Clafoutis. Today she's writing about Melktert, or South African Milk. The tart comes from a traditional south african recipe passed down from my grandma.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have south african milk tart / melktert using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make South African Milk Tart / Melktert:
- Take 200 g butter
- Prepare 200 g sugar
- Prepare 200 g muesli
- Take 500 g plain flour
- Prepare Custard
- Prepare 1.5 l whole milk
- Make ready 45 g cornflour
- Make ready 45 g plain flour
- Get 3 eggs
- Get 1 vanilla pod
- Take 100 g sugar
- Take 1 Tbs butter
- Take 1 vanilla pod
Children especially love the filling as a dessert. South African Melktert or Milk Tart (Custard Pie). Melktert (/ˈmɛlktɛrt/, Afrikaans for milk tart) is an Afrikaner dessert consisting of a sweet pastry crust containing a custard filling made from milk, flour, sugar and eggs. The ratio of milk to eggs is higher than in a traditional Portuguese custard tart or Chinese egg tart.
Steps to make South African Milk Tart / Melktert:
- Preheat oven to 180’C
- Make biscuit base. Cream the sugar and butter. Add muesli and mix. Then using a fork stir the flour into the mixture. Once it is mixed through press down into cake tin or pie dish. Bake for 30 minutes.
- Make the custard. Heat the milk, butter and vanilla seeds. Careful not to burn. Reduce heat and keep stirring. Mix the flour, cornflour, sugar then add touch of milk until mixed through and runny. Add the eggs and whisk until all lumps are gone. When the milk has warmed up but not boiling add egg and flour mixture in and keep stirring. Reduce heat and keep stirring for 2 minutes.
- Take pastry base out of the oven and pour thickened custard into base. Reduce oven to 160’C and bake tart until top of custard is slightly golden. Take out of the oven and let cool. Once cooled enough leave in the fridge for two hours. Then sprinkle cinnamon sugar over custard. The tart is best served cold.
Melktert (/ˈmɛlktɛrt/, Afrikaans for milk tart) is an Afrikaner dessert consisting of a sweet pastry crust containing a custard filling made from milk, flour, sugar and eggs. The ratio of milk to eggs is higher than in a traditional Portuguese custard tart or Chinese egg tart. Milk Tart is such a well loved traditional South African dessert that there is even a National Milk Tart day. Yes, that's really a thing in South Africa because we really love our old fashioned milk tart or 'melktert'. Whether you know it as old fashioned custard pie, custard tart.
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