Pasteis de Nata, Portuguese Egg Custard Tarts

Chef George Mendes of Veranda in New York City makes pasteis de nata, a sweet Portuguese egg custard tart that dates back to before the 18th century. These tiny, flaky tarts are made with egg yolks and are topped with a sprinkle of cinnamon. Check out the recipe here: www.vice.com/en/article/akvjj...
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[@Dcwood1979]

I grew up in New England. These are so good. In fact, Portuguese food in general is very good.

[@cdb5001]

It's one of the best and most underrated in the world.

[@megacarcos]

top tier food in the world

[@qmiixie]

@@cdb5001 there is no better or worse, to be exact and sensible, everyone has their tastes and palates, not everyone else will like it this is normal in the life

[@cdb5001]

@@qmiixie incorrect.

[@lobsterboy2020]

I've lived in Lisbon for 3 years. Honestly don't eat these often any more but I love seeing Portugal getting more international recognition

[@Dr.ZoidbergPhD]

I don't know what it would be like to live in Losbon, but I hope to find out one day. I spent 10 days there and I ate at the very least, 2, pastel de Nata a day. They're all basically the same, but each little shop has their own tint difference! The size, filling, topping, etc. The only time I had a disappointing Pastel was at the Lisbon Airport and I blame myself for buying that one

[@izzybella4]

I’m Portuguese and watching this video is getting me in my feels!! I miss eating these back at home 😭

[@ReindeerD]

I think someone needs to teach buddy the difference between mercenaries and missionaries 😂

[@allabored4443]

They were definitely mercenaries. They invented chattel slavery.

[@ReindeerD]

Although the concept of “mercenary Nuns” is hilarious, I’m pretty sure he meant to say missionaries

[@paulgracia2626]

When it comes to the Portuguese there isn’t a difference.

[@ReindeerD]

@@paulgracia2626 I see you too went to Catholic school 😂

[@gchow6009]

@@paulgracia2626 Haha. I heard stories from my much older friends that went to French catholic schools in the 60s in Vietnam. I definitely agree with you based on their stories.

[@catherinecosta8477]

I’m Portuguese and I live in Danbury, too! I loved going to international bakery! Thank you for making this video ❤️💚

[@paulgracia2626]

These are the best ever. Fall River Massachusetts born and raised. Half Portuguese half Irish.

[@patarcher1813]

Fall River is the little Portugal of the US 🙂

[@brrrrrrrrrr808]

I tried these pastries at Pastéis de Belém during my trip to Lisbon a few years ago. Worth the wait for sure! So flaky and delicious.

[@brokenrecord3523]

They are very good all over Portugal. Belem felt like a tourist trap.

[@SerinaMori]

@@brokenrecord3523 I tried so many different ones across lisbon and portugal, and Belem was by far the best. Not too sweet, flaky pastry and soft creamy filling

[@brokenrecord3523]

@@SerinaMori Dang. Now I have to go back to Portugal to try the Belem ones.😄

[@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407]

It's crowded and you have to wait for a table. But the tarts are not expensive at all (same price as all pasteis in Lisbon) and are so good! Just be patient. Get the classic tarts and their milk tea. @@brokenrecord3523

[@zsoltmadacs5567]

⁠​⁠@@brokenrecord3523I would respectfully disagree. We went to Portugal last summer. We tried them at Belem and Lisbon at Castro. I gotta say Belem was definitely a tourist trap and feel like the quantity took over the quality meanwhile the one at Castro in Lisbon ( 2 locations ) were both perfect. Was sooo good that we even bought 2 - 6 pack of them with us back home.

[@bobfitzgibbon6822]

My wife recently toured all of Portugal and absolutely loved it. She coincidentally brought me one of the Portuguese tarts and I must say, GREAT!!! I love to cook and bake so I will be using your recipe. Thank you for the great video. Oh, I live in Miami now but most of my life was in Connecticut. We played music at the Portuguese Club in Danbury many years ago.

[@Akuba55]

I love the mention of Hong Kong/China. Reminds me of my childhood eating Hong Kong style egg tarts; so incredibly delicious. Had no idea they were brought over from Portugal!

[@eugenea7886]

I wouldn't trust that history so much. I'm now actually inclined to believe that they took the idea from China. Like so many other ideas the European "explorers' took from places

[@21cup]

I think there is a cake that is quite popular in HK and Taiwan and Japan that was brought over by the Portuguese too. I think in Japan it is known as kasutera cake. In HK and Taiwan not so sure but it's a spongy light and yellow cake that is almost a bit bread like.

[@kokopellicrazy]

@@21cup It's called a castella cake in Hk/Taiwan.

[@21cup]

@@kokopellicrazy it's kept the original name then!

[@LyndaSousa]

Many Asian foods and bakes were brought over by the Portuguese, for example, tempura was invented by the Portuguese

[@pjg_77]

I love these. They are so so good with a coffee in the morning

[@XxThatGuyOverTherex1]

My parents went to Portugal a couple years ago and they kept eating these wherever they went. My mum avoids gluten and dairy but she said it was worth breaking the rules.

[@CBD7069..]

Didn’t know egg whites were used as starch for ironing. In the Philippines, the Spanish used the whites for foundation/brick building. The left over yolk was used for desserts like leche flan and tocino del cielo.

[@ednamartins6352]

We Portuguese do tocinho do ceu with the egg yolks too, in fact we do a lot with the egg yolks. There's a creme kind of like pastry cream only with egg yolks and sugar that is the base of tons of desserts in Portugal. 😊👌

[@CBD7069..]

@@ednamartins6352 thank you for sharing! I will be going on a trip to Portugal in a few weeks. Can’t wait to try the amazing food and desserts, especially the egg yolk desserts ☺️. If you have any recommendations, please share. I will be very grateful.

[@ednamartins6352]

@@CBD7069.. if you like seafood, Portugal has great seafood and the food is good anywhere. So just have fun and try the most you can. But don't forget the desserts, there's a coffee shop in every corner with tons of options. Of course if you in Lisbon go and try the Pasteis de Belem (pasteis de nata) just as an experience. Have fun and enjoy it. 👍👌

[@undadispussea]

Growing up in highly populated Portuguese area on the south-eastern coast of Massachusetts, these have always been my all-time favorite pastries! Locals here (like my father who migrated with his parents when he was 4 to America) speak a broken version of european portuguese & call these Queijada's! When my family would make these, we'd use the zest of imported lemons & fresh lemon juice straight from Portgual in the buttery flaky pastry dough. That was our secret to keep the shells crispy & tart. Thank you for this video!

[@Wikker5]

Brother, they are different things.

[@AdHesiveErmine]

@@Wikker5 Azoreans call pastéis de nata queijadas

[@21cup]

Queijadas are made with cheese, they are different to pastéis de nata. Maybe in the portuguese community in the US they have become intermingled but they are definitely different.

[@hughmungus3822]

@@21cup its azores slang for egg tarts

[@21cup]

@@hughmungus3822 então o que é que chamam a uma queijada?

[@GlamGoddes101]

I looove these! There are a lot of Portuguese bakeries in my area so that’s where I get them, but I’ve also got to try some when I visited Spain

[@ednamartins6352]

Unfortunately in Spain they are just a copy of the portuguese original, as it's where they originated.

[@DanCron]

I was just in Lisbon! You bet I tried these! So good!! 😋😋

[@moodieforhoodie]

I just came back from Portugal! Such a great country🇵🇹

[@PasteldeNataWorkshop]

Love seeing so many pastel de nata lovers around here!!💙

[@7thillusion]

Thank you. These things are awesome.

[@_flcy]

honestly even when theyre slightly soggy its still so good

[@fieldfire]

You need to add lemon peel at the same time you add the cinnamon, apart from that pretty much spot on

[@noirprncess]

So yummy. I want to try to make these at home.

[@bcreative6057]

Omg I finally found out to make these I love them!

[@TheBlinkyfish]

Some key differences between the video and the recipe. One of these is when you add the egg yolks. The recipe calls for combining the milk and simple syrup and then cooking for a bit and THEN adding it to egg yolks. He adds the yolks much earlier in the video.

[@dougpatterson4380]

Also, he mentions 7 to 10 minutes of cooking, and the recipe says 14 to 19. This is a huge difference

[@K1rkles]

I went to Portugal a few years ago and thought these things would be a gimmick but they were so mf good

[@VannieEats]

Would love to try Portuguese style egg tarts!😍

[@shawnfoodfever]

me too😋😋

[@ednamartins6352]

They are delicious!!

[@TristanDumantay]

I love getting these at 85 degrees. Such a perfect little pastry!

[@majestic6303]

Is that the real kind though

[@meghanle6398]

@@majestic6303 85 degrees is a Taiwanese bakery. The egg tarts there are more like the style found in Macau

[@kanethecracker]

These are amazing. They sell them where I live

[@zarifahmed8549]

Had Natas for the first time in Montreal. Worth every bite!!

[@DrBrunoRecipes]

Delicious 😋 Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a great day everyone 🌻

[@deltonlifeisgood]

Love it

[@JerseyLiyah]

My favorite Nata 😋

[@yvniszn]

Love these ! 😽

[@pampisfkiakouris3922]

My dude ate 6 of those in one sitting? WHILE drinking Port? That is some sweet tooth right there! 😂

[@shawnfoodfever]

drooling 😍😍😋😋

[@aaba1705]

THE BEST😋😋😋😋 My brother love natas too, in one day he eat 17 natas! Lol! Thank you so much for sharing! I love pastels de nata too!

[@compellingpeople]

My favorite dessert

[@yvniszn]

sendo portuguesa gosto muito desta sobremesa!

[@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407]

Went to Lisbon last year. The original Belem tarts and ones from the popular chain shop Manteigaria are all very good. Different styles but I loved both types. Belem ones have very crunchy pastry shell, Manteigaria ones creamier. I tried making them at home too, but the pastry tend to shrink a lot! I figured next time I should freeze them before baking, like he said here. But then again my oven is nowhere near the heat of a professional kitchen. I'll buy all the tarts I can eat if I go to Lisbon again.

[@charliegeddie]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dmisso42]

I relate to your ove-rindulgence with your first encounter of the real thing. I had the same thing with portuguese Sardinhas grilhadas! My in-laws lived in Cascais and the Pescadoras hawked fresh sardines every morning. The maids would watch me, open mouthed, as I eat 6 to 8 at a sitting. Eating fresh sardines and grilled capsicum, on the beach at sunrise with the fishermen and their wives, washed down with sangria. BLISS!

[@brownvanlife]

And don't forget Bacalhau

[@Audisknfj]

This is actually the “egg tart” that I grew up eating in China, even though there is a Cantonese version as well. This is thanks to KFC in China that bought a great recipe of the Macanese version of Pasteis de Nata and managed to replicate it very well and very cheap ($2 for 3 accounting for exchange rate)

[@jaimemarinho3393]

i'm Portugueses and you can find them everywhere you go!

[@YourKungFuSux]

my pastry chefs are always telling me to take the custard to the boil and let it cool, and i never got satisfactory results and was confused why, this is re assuring. i knew it wasnt right.

[@cervelomaniac]

I'd consider making them, but they're only $1.35 each at my local Portuguese bakery

[@gracey5512]

Lucky you!

[@SimpleCookingC]

So good to watch nice and beautiful videos like this thanks for sharing 👍🌸❣️👌🔥👏🌸🎶🎵🎧🎼 Friend 🎼

[@cameeltube]

best dessert in the world

[@carolyndavid1959]

Portugal’s colonization of the western world brought their cuisines and culture!

[@bellathemusicaddict]

I would gain like 10kg if I lived in Lisbon cause I just love these so much! I had at least two every day while on vacation there 🙈

[@gorillachilla]

I love these, so tasty but labour intensive

[@negan6973]

use store bought puff pastry, it's exactly the same and so much less work.

[@gorillachilla]

@@negan6973 what if I'm sick and legless ?

[@lulasgrelhadas]

If you wanna try the best ones and you're in Portugal, go to Manteigaria. By far the best Pastel de Nata experience.

[@nancyok]

Just got to have exactly those a couple weeks ago. Absolutely incredible.

[@guilhermanacas]

NO. Anything in Portugal that ends with "ARIA" is an overpriced hispter place made for tourists, period.

[@lulasgrelhadas]

@@guilhermanacas respect your opinion, but in this case you are wrong. They are the only ones doing mass production right, especially when you eat them warm. Pastéis de Belém lose to mateigaria every day of the week.

[@digitalrandomart3049]

@@lulasgrelhadas best warm are de belem cold terrible

[@shitinurhead]

Damn mate, now I am doing them once a week...

[@porshalopez7897]

Hi George, pasties de nata are one of my fave sweets...love the recipe...I think you meant "missionaries" and NOT mercenaries who spread the recipe in far away lands hundreds of years ago LOL Thanks for sharing 🥰🇨🇦

[@leonoramachado24]

I will try out these flaky tarts but will fill it in with a little spicy mince and put over a flaky cover and bake... from India with love

[@Boomchakalaka4298]

Also, a teaspoon of vanilla works wonders and don’t fill the pastry shells up so much you want the puff pastry to be nice and crisp around the edges

[@ElecBrane]

You should go to Belém and ask them

[@samoanpride9247]

I was just the same with my first experience trying them. It was very bland and not really flaky/crispy. I give them a second try yeeeeaaaarrrssss later somewhere else. And soon realized I’ve been missing out on a great snack/food. Moral of the story. Give foods more than one try. You might like them but just had a bad 1st taste and experience.

[@ednamartins6352]

You forgot the lemon peel on the simple syrup

[@susanseno5699]

Whereelse are the molds of pasteis de nata sold? The ones in Amazon are poorly made. Thanks.

[@Dr.ZoidbergPhD]

MUNCHIES!?!?!?! HOW DO YOU PLACE THAT MAGNETIC KNIFE HOLDER ON TILE!?!?!

[@ekureedafedaniel2622]

👍

[@lilisbelli8682]

Where is the recipe?

[@yomofo101]

I want to know how to make pastys

[@joshevans5127]

They need salt! Can't forget salt in the custard. Also some citrus zest in the custard is super welcome. Using cultured butter is another way to add tons of rich flavor to the laminated dough.

[@Archihuman]

Nah, lemon zest has got no place in this recipe. It wouldn't taste bad, it just wouldn't taste like a portuguese egg tart. Cinnamon + lemon zest is a classic flavour combination here in Portugal, lots of pudding recipes call for lemon zest and a cinnamon quill but not these

[@bepbe11]

Can I use store bought frozen puff pastry?

[@rjn1124]

The written recipe doesn't follow what Chef George does in the video. First of all, the recipe says to use 14 oz of puff pastry and that you should get 48 pieces. I used about a pound of puff pastry and using the same pastry thickness as in the video following Chefs demonstration for filling the Portuguese custard cups with the pastry dough (not a muffin tin as suggested). I ended up with 12. The amount of filling in the recipe was enough for 12 with a little left over, certainly not enough for 48. The recipe says to use a rolling pin to make rounds to fill mini-muffin tins. Not what he's doing. After adding the warm milk to the flour mixture, Chef whisks it into the egg yolks and then whisks in the simple syrup followed by heating the mixture over low heat while stirring until it thickens at just under 180F. I followed video instruction and it worked fine. The recipe has you whisk the simple syrup into the milk, return it to the stove, whisking constantly until thick. Then it says to stream this mixture into the eggs until incorporated. Has anyone made this by following either the video or the recipe as written?

[@gregdrake9377]

Wait, mercenaries?

[@qmiixie]

cadê os brasileiros perdidos nesse vídeo, cheguei aqui do nada

[@jacobmurray61]

but i always heard it was a way to use up from the egg yolks becuase they were using the egg whites in the sherry industry to clarify.

[@saibot1221]

Used to boonk these from my school cafeteria every day. shit tastes so good.

[@Gabyrizk1978]

Isn’t the background music Greek?

[@undadispussea]

If you've ever visited portugal, the greecian music fits the european vibe just right!

[@connieavila7683]

We’re can I get this recipe he dosent give the

[@gonzoducks8]

These aren't pasteis de belem. Pasteis de Belem are a guarded family recipe. The nata in them also looks white compared to other pasteis de natas. You can call a pasteis de Belem a pasteis de nata, but not all pasteis de nata are pasteis de Belem.

[@Hello-wj1yv]

why add flour to the custard?

[@GregCurtin45]

Thank you Chef Mendes. Not personally interested in the egg custard tarts but I love your treatment of the puff pastry and using that technique to fill the tarts with the basics of a quiche. All of your little tips are appreciated. I wish more chefs were great teachers like yourself. Thank you #munchies for bringing us the best of the world.

[@MAPLESTORlES]

He keeps saying mercenaries in the latter half of the video. Does he mean missionaries...?

[@jakwadd]

Think they were warrior nuns working under the name of god for them Benjamin’s 😂

[@Tol1as]

They served Tempus, the god of battle so the terms are interchange-able.

[@danielpereira5200]

Yes, he means missionaries :)

[@Wendyroo6817]

He means colonizers 🙊

[@AdHesiveErmine]

@@Wendyroo6817 he means missionaries

[@tutacat]

It's a district, not a suburb

[@cliftonbumgardner873]

You never showed spreading the butter on the dough.

[@magy12212]

🇵🇹

[@sayari2547]

mi scusi, egg whites to starch their uniforms?

[@freddosbookshelf3142]

Nata is just cream (of milk). Custard has no direct translation to Portuguese, only specific equivalents, none of which are called nata

[@irisw6832]

c'est dommage de ne pas montrer l'intérieur des pasteis de nata, vu que c'est le plus important. Il n'est pas simple d'avoir la bonne consistance

[@gab.lab.martins]

The colonisers in the room can correct me, but in Brazil "nata" is just an old-timey word for "cream", not custard. Some people still use that word (especially when making biscuits, "biscoito de nata"), but most of us just say "creme" instead. And there's no word for custard in PTBR.

[@MrGabiiiii94]

kek my dude you're the colonizer. How do you think you ended up in Brazil kkkkk

[@JeffreyG86]

In Portugal nata still means cream.

[@gab.lab.martins]

@@MrGabiiiii94 running from the Inquisition. I’m a Jew.

[@21cup]

Nata is cream in Portugal too, custard in the English sense doesn't really exist but we have creme de pastelaria or creme pasteleiro (iirc) which is similar to custard. You would usually find the creme as a filling in Bolas de Berlim (doughnuts) and in other small cakes and such. A pastel de nata doesn't have creme or custard but it's similar enough to what the english world calls custard so I think that's why you see it used as a name.

[@SNIPER20K]

Actually this guy should study a little bit more about what he says to know a lot about… Pastéis de Belém are not the same thing as Pastéis de Nata, so that receipt wasn’t born in Belém, cause its not the same thing… The portuguese routes that he talks about, were not in the 19th century. Also Belém is not a suburb of Lisbon, actually is part of the city centre and one of the most important zones of the city, where the President Palace is stabilished… But yeah, thanks for sharing some portuguese food and culture, i think everyone that comes to Portugal should try some Pastéis de Nata.✌🏽

[@4lex355]

What are you talking about? Pasteis de belém are not the same thing as pasteis de nata? Pastéis de belém is just the brand of the pasteis de nata. In my place they are the same thing, and i am from lisbon!

[@4lex355]

And belém is not city center, city center is chiado/saldanha/rossio/marques de pombal.

[@SNIPER20K]

@@4lex355 so if you’re from lisbon go to Pasteis de Belem and ask them if the receipt is the same! I used to live in belém, i know what i’m talking about, so just go and ask them if it’s the same thing

[@SNIPER20K]

@@4lex355 you gotta study more man… Lisbon suburbs is like Sacavém, Cascais, Oeiras, Belém is in the city center! Also Belém is part of Lisbon county, a thing that Cascais Sintra or Oeiras are not… you’re welcome

[@4lex355]

@@SNIPER20K you know nothing! Not because they have a slighlty different recipe that it is a different type of sweat. What you saying is like: i can not call pizza a pizza because they have a different toping.

[@Boomchakalaka4298]

Check your recipe, you’ve mixed up the order of the eggs and milk and flour etc

[@AnonymousRootz]

pastel de nata and port wine? that's heresy! pastel de nada é com café!

[@cdb5001]

Portuguese food? On Munchies? Shocking! As rare as a unicorn. Finally, something good for once! I'm sure we'll be back to pizza and tomato sauce again soon. Yawn.

[@chriser555]

Wtf is an "8th of an inch" ?? Just use millimetres ffs

[@Wendyroo6817]

3mm

[@putalaweaconchatumare]

@@Wendyroo6817 3.15 ish in fact, dumb and umprecise units lol

[@88yellowjacket]

Dan tat

[@MonkyDollqueen]

Life is short to hate anyone so forgive often love someone smile often and do everything that makes you happy.

[@4lex355]

The best desert/sweat in the world. Anyone that would like to try this should go to "pastéis de belém".

[@vanessarebelo9701]

those look like queijada de leite😆

[@alexandrapatricio2727]

You ate not teaching how to make the dough.

[@alexandrapatricio2727]

Yes, he should tell the story well, nota mercenaries for sure.

[@Joecoca99]

Looks nothing like its ment to... if you really want to know how to make them search for them from Portuguese channels not some American guy this is also made incorrectly

[@olig7879]

How did he make the pastry before rolling out

[@TheAeasy19]

ain't got nothing on Portugal

[@marylandlax3]

I think it’s funny because American versions of certain recipes can be unpleasant, I had poutine for the first time when I was like 20 and I hated it even though I have Canadian blood, it’s fries, cheese, and gravy? How do you fuck that up? Fast forward 2 years later and I had it in Ottawa Canada visiting family, now it’s one of my favorite guilty pleasures to this day. The big differences were the gravy was much more runny like a sauce than say a thick thanksgiving gravy, the fries were thin and super crispy instead of medium / thick cut fries, and the cheese!!! They used mozeralla I think or something of that nature, but you have to use cheese curds, it’s cheese fries unless it’s cheese curds. Anyways I’m here for protecting the original origins of some recipes

[@Ogilla]

You know what's funnier? Poutine is not Canadian and is most of the time atrocious when it's done outside Québec.

[@RogueCityDynasty]

​@@Ogilla Poutine is Canadian, and Quebec is in Canada

[@matheusmarcal9297]

Pxtel d'blain

[@pedroeducarvalho]

Not even close that's not how they're done neither the final result

[@carlodamiani1864]

hey i'm tryng to make real pasteis de nata, can you suggest me an authentic recipe? thanks

[@vanessarebelo9701]

they are supposed to be flakey...

[@DanielMendoza-dz6it]

All this ppl don't know how film a video with a real recipe and all measurements.