Almost Easter!!!! Well if you’re in the mood for a delightful Portuguese treat, look no further than these amazing Sweet Fresh Cheese Pies or Queijadas de Requeijão de Beja. These creamy, sweet cheese tarts hail from Beja, a charming city in Portugal’s Alentejo region. They are crafted with rich requeijão (a traditional Portuguese cheese similar to ricotta) and encased in a crisp, slightly salty very rustic pastry shell, they offer a delicious treat, combining salty with sweet, soft and creamy with crispy, pretty amazing!
These type of sweet cheese pies are very much rooted in the area’s conventual confectionery traditions, as such these pies have become a staple during Easter celebrations throughout Alentejo. Their popularity during the holiday is a testament to their timeless appeal and the joy they bring to festive gatherings, but if you are in town you can get them all year round hehehe, lets check the recipe!!!!! Oh and Happy Easter!
Sweet Fresh Cheese Pies • Queijadas de Requeijão de Beja
Delicious and traditional sweet cheese pies from the Alentejo region of Portugal, very typical of a Portuguese Easter.
Ingredients
- Water – 50ml (Warm)
- Lard – 15gr
- Butter – 15gr
- Egg – 1
- Unleavened Flour – 130gr
- Salt – A pinch
- Requeijão Cheese – 400gr (from Sheep)
- Eggs – 3
- Egg Yolks – 2
- Sugar – 200gr
- Butter – 30gr
- Flour – 30gr
- Cinnamon – 1 level teaspoon
Directions
- We start with the dough. In a bowl, add the water followed by a generous pinch of salt, the lard, butter and let everything melt well and cool.
- Then add the egg and flour, mix everything well until you have a dough, knead it a little and set it aside.
- For the filling, put the rest of the ingredients in a bowl: the requeijão cheese, 3 eggs, 2 egg yolks, the sugar, 30g of butter, the flour and a pinch of cinnamon. Use a hand blender to blend everything together until you have a thick, velvety cream.
- Now you’re going to roll out the dough, note that the dough doesn’t cooperate much, but roll it out until you have a very thin section, use a glass to cut it out and place it in a buttered mould, note that once it’s in the mould the dough becomes much more flexible and you can easily stretch it to cover the mould well.
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
- Pour the filling into each tin/mold and bake for about 15 to 20 minutes until golden brown, remove from the oven and leave to cool, then you’re done, bon appetit and Happy Easter!
This recipe for Sweet Fresh Cheese Pies • Queijadas de Requeijão de Beja was originally created on BakeAfter.com. Esta receita de Queijadas de Requeijão de Beja foi publicada em português no Iguaria.com.
Nutrition
3656 calories; 214 g fat; 318 g carbohydrates; 121 g protein; 50 mg cholesterol; 760 mg sodium.Did you try this recipe?
Let me know how it turned out for you! Leave a comment below ;D
