Sericaia is a Portuguese egg pudding, known as sericá is a traditional wood oven baked sweet from the Alentejo region. Usually baked in a clay dish, but it’s completely acceptable to use a glass or any oven proof dish in a conventional oven. There are several versions that over the years altered the original recipe, but keeping the following points in common: “milk is boiled before being added all the other ingredients, the recipe goes in the oven and has the consistency of cream”. In Brazil this recipe has many variations, like the use of coconut milk, addition of cheese and other recipes use condensed milk, we Brazilians can’t get enough of it. This version is very simple and tasty.
Sericaia recipe
serves 12 people
• 10 sieved egg yolks
• 500 g sugar / 2 1/4 cups
• 500 ml milk
• zest of 1 lemon
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 pinch of salt (1/2 teaspoon)
• 250 g / 2.5 cups/15 tablespoons of wheat flour dissolved in 500 ml of milk
• 10 egg whites beaten till stiff
• 1- In a mixer, beat the egg yolks with sifted sugar until soft and creamy. Reserve this cream mixture .
• 2 – separately, in a saucepan, boil milk with lemon zest, cinnamon stick and
salt. Once simmering, turn off the heat and incorporate the wheat flour dissolved in
milk, stirring fast and very well with a balloon whisk. Incorporate the cream mixture.
• 3 – return pan to low heat, stirring constantly, to thicken the cream to the point that gives to
see the bottom of the pan ( + / – 15 minutes) . Remove from heat and set aside
until completely cool .
• 6 – Transfer the mixture to a ovenproof dish, greased and sprinkled with
cinnamon baking sheet and sprinkle more cinnamon on the surface of the mixture
. Bake in preheated 180C (fan oven) oven for 40-45 minutes .
TIP : Let this desert to cool down before cutting it or make it overnight and
then cut next day. It gets even better the next day. Enjoy it!
Oh that does look good. Did you save me a slice? ;-P
Cheers Kavey! It's so delicious, next time I will save you one or two slices. 😉