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Check out more of Lisbon’s culinary scene.Hotels in Lisbon – Heritage Avenida Liberdade.Pastéis de Nata recipe – First make the easy custard.Ingredients for my Pastéis de Nata recipe.You may also enjoy: Quinta do Lago Country Club – luxury apartments in the Algarve, Portugal I had to practically fight off the family from eating them all before I photographed them, so you could see what the result was. I made some of the tarts to serve to the family, to be offered either as a teatime treat or as a desert with ice cream. To get there you take the tram from downtown Lisbon to Belém, getting off at the stop before the monastery and look for the queue of people spilling out the shop waiting to buy them warm from the oven.
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While there are plenty of Pastelarias or cake shops around Lisbon where you can buy the tarts, locals and tourists alike swear by the ones that are sold close to the Monastery of Jerónimos at the Antiga Confeitaria de Belém where the cakes are simply known as the Pastéis de Belém. If you’ve not visited Lisbon, you may not know what you are missing in this creamy, vanilla perfumed Portuguese egg tart enclosed in a crisp, flaky pastry that are sold in every bakery and served at every hotel breakfast buffet. They a great choice at Christmas or Easter and can be whisked up at short notice so here’s my favourite world-on-a-plate recipe with a Portuguese theme.