Portuguese custard tarts

Have ago at these reduced-calorie classic Portuguese tarts made with stevia- also know as Pastéis de Nata. They taste just a great!

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15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 130g plain yoghurt
  • 350ml milk
  • 50g sugar
  • 15g Truvia
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 30g corn flour
  • 1/8 tsp. turmeric
  • 200g short crust pastry

Directions

  1. Combine all custard ingredients in a saucepan and whisk until smooth and combined
  2. Bring to boil over a medium heat, stirring/whisking constantly. Boil for 2 minutes still stirring until thickened. Turn off the heat and set aside.
  3. Set oven to 230’C Grease a 12 hole muffin tin.
  4. Roll out the shortcrust pastry into a square. Roll up the pastry into a sausage shape. Cut the ‘sausage’ into 12 even pieces. Roll each piece out flat into a round shape, press into the muffin holes.
  5. Whisk the custard again, take out the cinnamon stick. Fill the pastry holes until 2/3rds full, do not overfill.
  6. Bake for 10-12 minutes until the pastry is nicely brown at the edges and the custard has firmed up and has the brown marks on the custard traditional on custard tarts
  7. Let the tarts cool in the tin before taking them out.

Keep in fridge.

Consume within 7 days.