Easiest Way to Make Delicious South African milk tart

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." Melktert (/ˈmɛlktɛrt/, Afrikaans for milk tart) is a South African dessert originally created by the Dutch settlers in the "Cape" (South Africa) consisting of a sweet pastry crust containing a custard filling made from milk, flour, sugar and eggs.

Milk tart (or Melk Tert) is a South African dessert pie. 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. You can have South African milk tart using 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of South African milk tart

1. Prepare 3 tbsp of melted butter.
2. It's 3 1/2 cup of milk.
3. You need 2 cup of crushed biscuits (Marie or other).
4. Prepare 2 of eggs.
5. It's 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. It's 2 tbsp of butter.
9. It's 1 of powdered cinnamon.

This South African Milk Tart is a delicious dessert that everyone will love. For this recipe, I purchased a pre-made tart shell, though you can make your own. I used to just purchase a couple of tart shells when I make this recipe - I need two as the ones that I can find are usually quite small. Melktert, also known as South African Milk Tart, is a delicate but decadent dessert.

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!.

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! A milk tart or melktert in Afrikaans is as the name suggests, a tart whose main ingredient is a milk based custard. This classic South African dessert was one that I tried several times when I visited South Africa. For my milk tart recipe I turned to Nina who hails from South Africa.