“Somebody Feed Phil” These “Pasteis de Nata!”

When we went to Lisbon a while ago, we tried to eat at all the places from the TV series “Somebody Feed Phil” – because Phil Rosenthal went to Lisbon Portugal and devoured these “pasteis de nada!”

They are traditional Egg Custard Tarts, made famous in the town of Sintra just outside Lisbon, where my wife Alex and I visited and loved…here’s their colorful castle:

Look at that gorgeous pastry…it seemed too much to try and make my first time out, so I started with two other tarts instead…

First, I’m making a Portuguese Tart that is NOT a “pasteis de nada”, but lives in the same neighborhood…

Here’s A “Queijadas de Leite!”

This is a Portuguese Milk Tart. These sweet treats are made with a few simple ingredients, eggs, milk, butter, flour and sugar, and they bake up into creamy little tarts that practically melt in your mouth. 

And Here’s A “Queijadas de Cenoura!”

My second Portuguese Tart was a “carrot cheesecake tart” – with a recipe that has no cheese!

Where did I get the inspiration of these two unique recipes? Here!

This terrific book, lent to us by our good friend and Cookbook Author Barbara Passino, had a variation on the “milk tart” called a “Queijadas de cenoura” – Carrot “cheese” cakes!

Both were delicious and easy to make – so let’s get busy making a “Carrot Cheesecake Tart!”

This recipe uses creamy carrot instead of cheese, but while the recipe in the book had no cheese, I decided to use a bit of cream cheese anyway – because why not?

Here are the ingredients:

1-1/2 lb peeled carrots

5 tbl softened butter

1-1/4 cup superfine sugar

4 eggs

3/4 cup flour

pinch of salt

zest of one lemon

zest of one liime

cream cheese if you are so inclined

Before you begin, preheat your oven to 430 degrees

Grease a nonstick muffin tin with butter – and now, let’s make our tarts!

Chop one pound carrots and coarsely grate the rest, then get a pot of water boiling.

Boil the chopped carrots until soft…then drain and blend them with a hand mixer and set aside.

In a large bowl, combine the sugar and butter until smooth, then add your blended carrots…

Next, add the eggs one at a time and mix smoothly – this is where I added 3 tablespoons of creamy cream cheese because I wanted it to have a bit of that silky flavor…

Next, gently fold in the flour, salt and the grated carrots until you have a nice mix…

Gently add the lemon and orange zest, combine your mix and it will look like this…

The last step is to put the mix in your muffin tins until about 3/4 full and get ready to bake them for 25 minutes!

I only made a few of these for the purpose of the “52 In 22” cooking challenge and also added my Milk Tarts to the pan as well…let’s make those next!

Yes, I found this recipe for a traditional Portuguese Milk Tart, so I am making both!

Here are your ingredients:

2 cups sugar

1 cup flour

4 beaten eggs

1/2 cup melted butter

3 cups of whole milk

This recipe is even easier than the carrot tarts…in a large bowl combine sugar and flour.

Whisk in beaten eggs, then add melted butter, continuing to whisk, it will become a nice creamy batter…

Next, add your milk and continue to whisk until its silky smooth…

Pour the mixture into a greased muffin tin, filling each cup to a little more than half full…in hindsight I would have done them a bit more full…

Here they are before going into the oven, and here they are coming out 25 minutes later!

Remove the tarts from muffin tin while hot by running a knife around the sides and lifting them out – mine came right out with no problem whatsoever…the recipe says you should sprinkle the milk tarts with cinnamon sugar, but I didn’t do it – they came out perfectly without that!

So which did I like best?

Well, the carrot cheesecake was delicious, with a creaminess from the cream cheese I think really helped – but the milk tarts were creamy and delicious as well – not too sweet – and a nice texture more firm than custard…and if I knew how to caramelize the top a bit, they are closest to a “pasteis de nada”…

For a nice snack to have with coffee, both of these will do nicely!

As for the “pasties de Nada”, I think they are better to purchase, like these ones we bought at Lisbon’s most famous shop:

Here’s a quick look at a shop in Lisbon making them in front of us:

I will tackle these one day, but for now, here are the best places in Lisbon to get these delicious treats:

While you are in Lisbon, you also have to eat great seafood – and in this case a steak sandwich for dessert!

See the incredibly unique menu here:

And don’t forget to eat at Ponto Final, where you sit right over the river! Take a look!

See more of out incredible meal on the water here:

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