Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, south african milk tart / melktert. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

South African Milk Tart / Melktert is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. South African Milk Tart / Melktert is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Traditional South African Milk Tart - 'Ouma se Melktert' This legendary melktert (milk tart) recipe from 'Ouma' is the one and only and simply the best. In a large bowl, mix together the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the egg yolks and beat until light and fluffy. Sift in the cake flour, baking powder and salt, and stir until well blended.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have south african milk tart / melktert using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make South African Milk Tart / Melktert:

1. Take 200 g butter
2. Get 200 g sugar
3. Take 200 g muesli
4. Make ready 500 g plain flour
5. Take Custard
6. Prepare 1.5 l whole milk
7. Take 45 g cornflour
8. Make ready 45 g plain flour
9. Prepare 3 eggs
10. Prepare 1 vanilla pod
11. Prepare 100 g sugar
12. Prepare 1 Tbs butter
13. Get 1 vanilla pod

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 tart is creamy and luxurious — a traditional sweet pie South Africans love. Serve it after dinner or as a teatime treat! Milk Tart is such a well loved traditional South African dessert that there is even a National Milk Tart day.

Steps to make South African Milk Tart / Melktert:

1. Preheat oven to 180’C
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Serve it after dinner or as a teatime treat! 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'. Mix remaining milk, flour, sugar, extracts, salt and egg yolks together and add to hot milk. Cook until very thick and remove from stove.

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