How to Make Tasty South African milk tart

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South African milk tart. My 'ouma' South African grandmother's legendary milk tart. The recipe is a real winner. It is a traditional South African tart that is very easy to prepare.

Serve it after dinner or as a teatime treat!

Milk Tart/Meltert - Easy, Rich and Creamy - Perfect entertaining pie with an easy press-on pastry crust.

It doesn't take much to make this delicious, perfect-for-entertaining tart.

You can have South African milk tart using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of South African milk tart

1. You need 3 tbsp of melted butter.

2. You need 3 1/2 cup of milk.

3. You need 2 cup of crushed biscuits (Marie or other).

4. You need 2 of eggs.

5. You need 1/2 cup of sugar.

6. You need 2 tbsp of flour (heaped).

7. It’s 2 tbsp of maizena or other corn flour(heaped).

8. Prepare 2 tbsp of butter.

9. You need 1 of powdered cinnamon.

This popular South African milk tart qualifies as one of those quick and easy tarts to whip up in a pinch.

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Milk tart (or Melk Tert) is a South African dessert pie.

South African milk tart step by step

1. Mix crushed biscuits with the melted butter and press into a pie dish..

2. Heat 3 cups milk with sugar and butter, setting aside the other 1/2 cup for later..

3. Separate eggs, beat yolks and add to the milk..

4. With the 1/2 cup milk which was set aside earlier, mix flour and maizena to a paste..

5. Add to the mixture, always stirring..

6. Remove from heat..

7. Beat egg whites to a stiff peak, then fold into the milk mixture..

8. Pour into crushed biscuit base, sprinkle with cinnamon..

9. Allow to cool, and enjpy!.

A sweet pastry crust is filled with a custard filling and topped with a generous dusting of cinnamon.

Some milk tart recipes call for the custard to be baked but my favorite version is unbaked custard gently flavored with almond extract.

Milk Tart is such a well loved traditional South African dessert that there is even a National Milk Tart day.

The two milk tart recipes used my maternal and paternal aunts use similar ingredients for a baked milk tart recipe but the filling looks and tastes totally different, though equally delicious.

This legendary melktert (milk tart) recipe from 'Ouma' is the one and only and simply the best.