Tartlets are rightfully considered the best appetizers. And if cheese is used in the basis, the rating of the dish rises even more. When the toppings for cheese baskets are diverse, the hostess of the evening can be sure: no guest will be left disappointed. So if your snack book doesn’t have such an appetizer, it's time to fill this regrettable gap in culinary education.
Cheese baskets with filling: recipe with photo
But before filling tartlets, they still need to bake. The most successful test for them is the following option. Take a glass of flour and one hundred grams of margarine; products are chopped with a knife into small crumbs. A one-gram piece of hard cheese is rubbed and introduced into the mass. To this is added the yolk of one egg and half a spoonful of salt. The kneaded dough rolls into a ball, turns into cling film and hides in the refrigerator for about forty minutes. After that, the dough is rolled into a thin cake, circles are cut out of it with a cup, laid out in shapes and put into the oven for a quarter of an hour. While the tartlets are baked and cooled, you can do the filling for cheese baskets.
Tempting alternative
If you do not want to spend time on the dough, the base for the filling can be made from one cheese. To do this, rub it and pour it on the parchment sheet with circles of the desired diameter and a layer of 2-3 mm. The blank sheet is put in the oven until the cheese is melted; after removing from the oven, the circles are very carefully pulled off with a spatula and thrown on inverted stacks - to give shape. When the cheese has hardened, the selected filling for cheese baskets is laid out on the resulting “glasses”. And there is plenty to choose from!
Stuffed Cheese Baskets: Mushroom Recipe
A third of a kilo of champignons is cut into slices and aged in a skillet until the liquid evaporates. Then oil is added and the mushrooms are fried until blush and cooked. Separately, half rings of the middle onion are allowed. Two steep eggs and an apple without a peel are cut into cubes, the greens are finely cut. All components are combined, the filling for cheese baskets is seasoned with a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise in equal proportions and laid out on tartlets. Jewelery is the choice of the cook.
Tuna Filling
You need canned fish in your own juice. The liquid is decanted from it, after which the tuna is kneaded with a fork, supplemented with finely grated eggs (3 pieces), you can add cheese chips. Mayonnaise is used for dressing; after laying on the baskets, the filling is sprinkled with chopped dill.
Gifts of the oceans
With them you get simply great cheese baskets with filling. Combination options are very different. Of the most popular, the following can be mentioned.
- Boiled squids, about a pound, a pair of hard-boiled eggs, three small cucumbers, for dressing mayonnaise. Cucumbers are often replaced with Beijing cabbage or leaf lettuce.
- Crab sticks (300 g), boiled eggs (2 pieces), grated cheese (40-50 grams), mayonnaise mixed with soy sauce. It is recommended to decorate with red caviar, but it is also possible with rings of black olives
You can also experiment with sea cocktails, use shrimp - no restrictions for imagination.
Curd filler
This filling for cheese baskets can only be used if the tartlets are made of dough, because after filling it, the baskets are placed in the oven. A pack of cottage cheese is pounded with two yolks and mixed with an incomplete spoon of semolina. 50 grams of cheese from hard varieties is finely rubbed and added to the mass. The filling is laid out in tartlets at half the height (when baking, it grows in volume), and the snack is placed in the oven.
You can save time if you do not pre-bake the baskets, but fill the molds laid with dough.
Hearty and delicious
Such baskets will surely especially please men. For the filling, two potatoes and chicken are boiled. To them, pickled cucumber is cut into the company; the salad is seasoned with mayonnaise, favorite spices and chopped herbs.
There is another meat version of the filler. It can use either chicken with thighs or beef. In addition to meat, there are fried carrots and bell peppers. When they are almost ready, crushed garlic clove should be added to the vegetables. The salad is traditionally dressed with mayonnaise.
Exotic fillings
Option one: canned pineapple is cut into small cubes, the cheese is rubbed coarsely, the garlic is chopped (it is better to chop, not to squeeze). The ingredients are mixed and flavored with mayonnaise and crushed greens. Proportions of products - in accordance with your idea of the beautiful. The taste comes out very original, unusual, but pleasant.
Option two: the basket is lined with a leaf of lettuce, a piece of fresh pear without skin and a slice of feta are placed on it. The design is sprayed with olive oil with balsamic vinegar in a ratio of 2: 1. The last roll is rolled up from a thin plate of ham. A sprig of any spicy greens will serve as decoration.