Torrão Requeijão Tarts
Also known as: Torrão Requeijão Tart · Torrão Cheesecake Tart
An Alentejo requeijão tart in a thin, deeply fluted pastry shell.
- Origin
- Torrão · Alcácer do Sal
- Place
- Torrão · Alcácer do Sal
- Region
- The Alentejo
- Category
- Convent Sweets
- Season
- Year-round; featured at the pre-Easter Torrão Doce fair
- Evidence
- Well documented
Queijada do Torrão is a small round tart set in a thin pastry shell with deeply fluted edges. Its filling combines requeijão, eggs, sugar, butter and flour: it rises in the oven, develops an uneven golden-brown top, and keeps a moist, finely grainy cheese interior.
Pastelaria Carapinha's recipe is made by hand in Torrão. The pale, crisp shell contrasts with the rich dairy centre; it is eaten by hand at room temperature.
- requeijão
- eggs
- sugar
- butter
- wheat flour
- thin pastry
Sweet, buttery and milky, with a moist requeijão centre and thin crisp edges.
Other requeijão pastries are made around Torrão, but Carapinha's version is distinguished by its low, deeply fluted shell.
At Pastelaria Carapinha in Torrão and regional pastry shops around Alcácer do Sal.
Coffee, herbal tea or a Setúbal Peninsula fortified wine.
Alcácer do Sal municipality highlights queijadas among the convent-inspired sweets associated with Torrão. Pastelaria Carapinha, founded by Maria de Jesus in 1990, preserves a family recipe and represented the municipality in the Seven Wonders of Portuguese Sweets. The tart reached the national list of 140 and became one of Setúbal district's seven finalists in 2019.
Well documented
Identity supported by institutional, specialist or corroborating sources.
- pastelariacarapinha.com (opens in a new tab)
- cm-alcacerdosal.pt/municipio/concelho/freguesias/freguesia-do-torrao/ (opens in a new tab)
- osetubalense.com/local/alcacer-do-sal/docaria-conventual-chamou-centenas-ao-torrao/ (opens in a new tab)
- rostos.pt/inicio2.asp (opens in a new tab)
- caruspinus.pt/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/LISTA_7MDOCESP_140_NOMEADOS_2ELIMINATORIA.pdf (opens in a new tab)
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