Recently, an increasing number of people are interested in cooking, a few years ago tartlets could only be found in good restaurants. Now many have learned to cook them, and it is difficult to imagine any banquet home table without this snack. The beauty of this dish is that there are so many simple and affordable starters for appetizer tartlets.
How to make tartlets
Now in almost every store tartlets are sold, but if you cook them yourself, their taste will be more interesting and original. Classic tartlets are made from shortcrust pastry. To prepare it for 10 small tartlets, you need to take 280 g of flour, 150 g of butter, one egg, a little salt and sugar.
To properly prepare the dough, you need to get butter and an egg from the refrigerator, about an hour before the start of the kneading procedure. In this case, kneading is described using a mixer, if it is not available, then you need to do everything exactly in the same sequence, only with your hands.
Cut the butter into small pieces and put it in the mixer bowl, add salt, a small amount of sugar and whisk it until a creamy mass is obtained. After toss the egg and continue stirring, when all the products are combined together, you can add flour.
Stir the ingredients for several minutes until you get a good elastic dough. The resulting lump should be wrapped in cling film and set aside for 30 minutes.
Divide the dough into 10 smooth parts and roll into thin enough circles. Then you need to take a cupcake mold and gently push the dough into the mold. Bottom with a fork, you need to make several holes. This procedure is necessary so that the dough during the heat treatment does not rise and does not lose its shape. Bake tartlets for 15 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Attention! All presented recipes for appetizers in tartlets with and without photos are designed for 10 pieces.
Classic toppings with chicken, mushrooms and cheese
To prepare the filling, you need to take: 150-200 g of chicken, 200 g of mushrooms, 100 g of any hard cheese and a small amount of sour cream. Rinse the chicken meat thoroughly and cut into a small cube. For a more original taste, the product can be marinated in soy sauce, thyme and vegetable oil. Cut the mushrooms into small cubes, and grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
Now you need to heat up the pan strongly and toss the chicken onto it, frying it a little, you should throw the mushrooms and fry these two ingredients until fully cooked. After that, pour a small amount of sour cream into the pan. She just needs to bind the chicken and mushrooms into a single mass, then fill the cheese.
Now you need to try the filling for the tartlet for a snack, bring it to taste, mix and turn off the heat. Now it remains only to wait until the mass has cooled, and start tartlets with it.
Stuffing from balyk and eggs
This is a very simple recipe for tartlets for appetizer, there are only three ingredients, but the dish is very original and satisfying. To prepare the dish you need to take:
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- balyk - 200 g;
- cream cheese or cream cheese - 200 g.
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Eggs must be boiled until fully cooked and cleaned.
- Transfer the processed cheese into a small bowl, and throw eggs there. Add a small amount of salt and pepper.
- Using a blender, beat these two ingredients until smooth.
- Cut the balyk into a small cube, pour it over to other products and mix thoroughly.
A simple filling for a tartlet for a snack is ready. You just have to fill the tartlets with the resulting mass, and you can serve them to the table.
Cheap stuffing
If guests will be very soon, and there is not much money for the celebration, do not despair. There is a very cheap, but very original recipe for tartlets for snacks. For cooking, you should take: canned peas - 200 g, sardine in oil - 200 g, tomatoes - 200 g, boiled eggs - 3 pcs., Mayonnaise 160 g.
The cooking process is extremely simple. Hard-boiled eggs should be cut into a small cube and put in a bowl, and green peas should be added there. Canned fish should be chopped with a fork and put to the rest of the ingredients.
So that the tomato skin does not interfere, it must be removed. To do this, you need to dip the vegetable in hot water for a few seconds, and then cool them sharply with cold running water. After this, the skin lags very easily. Cut the tomatoes in the same cubes as the eggs, put them in a bowl, season with mayonnaise, add a small amount of salt and pepper if necessary. Stuff the tartlets, decorate them with greens and can be served.
Tartlets without dough base
The peculiarity of this snack is that chicken fillet will serve as the basis of tartlets. Of the ingredients we need:
- chicken fillet - 2 pcs.;
- champignon mushrooms - 200 g;
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- ham - 100 g.
Cooking process:
- Rinse the chicken fillet thoroughly, peel and cut into thin strips in length.
- The meat is very beaten off, but not torn, one must remain intact. It is best to beat the chicken through cling film, put it on the table a little, and cover the meat on top. Then it will protect the chicken from tearing and it can be beaten to the desired thickness.
- Broken off pieces must be carefully put in cupcake tins to make a tartlet.
- Now proceed to the preparation of the filling. For this, mushrooms must be cut into small cubes, and the ham should be cut in the same pieces. Mix these two ingredients in a bowl, add the right amount of sour cream, salt, pepper. To mix everything.
- To put this simple filling for tartlets for appetizer in chicken molds.
- Grate the cheese and sprinkle on top of each tartlet.
- Put the almost completed dish in the oven for 25 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees.
- After that, give the tartlets a little time to cool. Serve cold.
Note. The most difficult part in preparing this dish is to put the chicken in the molds correctly. You need to do everything carefully so that holes do not work out, otherwise the filling will start to leak out, and the final result will be far from what was expected.
Cheese-based tartlets
As already mentioned, the basis of tartlets can be shortcrust pastry and chicken. But they can also be made from ordinary hard cheese, the process of preparing such a dish will be a little more complicated, but all guests will be delighted when they see cheese-based tartlets on the table.
Cheese-based appetizer recipes in tartlets (pictured) can be made from ordinary hard cheese or parmesan. However, not everyone can afford to use expensive Italian cheese, so consider a recipe from ordinary hard cheese, which is sold at any grocery store.
To prepare ten tartlets, you must:
- hard cheese - 180 g;
- starch - 30 g;
- parchment paper.
Cooking process:
- Grate the cheese and put it in a bowl.
- Add the necessary amount of starch to it and mix everything thoroughly. Starch is needed to keep the tartlets in good shape when cooled. If you still decide to use Parmesan, then this cheese itself is very high quality and adding starch does not make sense.
- Put parchment paper on it, pour a thin layer of cheese on it. This should be done very delicately, because if the product is poured roughly, the tartlet will not keep its shape and the taste of cheese will be felt too much.
- Put the paper in the microwave or in a not very hot pan. Wait until the cheese is completely melted.
- Now you need to take a stack and put it upside down. Take parchment paper with cheese and carefully put it on a stack. Thus, a tartlet is formed. The product needs to be given time to cool completely and then it can be removed from the pile and parchment paper. It turned out a beautiful cheese tartlet, which can be filled with various types of fillings.
Cheese base: tartlet filling
Appetizer tartlets with photos made on a cheese basis have one feature, the filling should not be too liquid. If the base was made correctly and the walls turned thin, then holes will necessarily be present in it, through which this liquid will leak out.
One of the simplest filling recipes consists of:
- Chinese cabbage - 150 g
- chicken liver - 150 g,
- mayonnaise - 100 g
- a small amount of apples.
In this case, it turns out not even an ordinary tartlet, but a kind of salad in cheese molds - this dish is very tasty and everyone will certainly like it at the festive table.
How to make cheese tartlets, it was written a little higher, if they are already done, proceed directly to the preparation of the filling. If not yet, then they need to be done and only then proceed with other processes.
Cooking process:
- First of all, you should cook chicken liver. It must be thoroughly washed, cut into a small cube or straws. Add water again and rinse.
- Pickle the liver in a small amount of salt, thyme, pepper and rosemary.
- Fry the liver in a pan until cooked. Chicken offal is very tender and quickly cooked, so do not miss the moment and do not dry it. Put the finished liver in a bowl.
- Cut Chinese cabbage into thin strips and drop it into the same bowl where the liver is already lying.
- Peel the apples, cut into small cubes or straws, the shape of the slices does not affect the taste, but for appearance, it is recommended to cut the fruit in the same way as the liver was sliced. Put them to the rest of the ingredients.
- Add the necessary amount of mayonnaise to the bowl and mix everything thoroughly. Put the filling in cheese tartlets, can be decorated with greens, olives or small cubes of red bell pepper.
Cheese tartlet filling
This recipe has a special taste, but certain culinary skills are required to make it. If a person is too far from this, then it is better to refrain and choose a different filling. The peculiarity of the dish is the incredible taste of chicken, which is prepared in teriyaki sauce with other ingredients.
To prepare a meal you must have:
- chicken fillet - 250 g;
- lettuce - 50 g;
- sesame;
- Teriyaki sauce - 100 g;
- honey - 50 g;
- ground ginger.
Rinse the chicken, peel it well and cut into medium cubes. After it should be put in a bowl where to add the required amount of teriyaki sauce, honey and a small amount of ground ginger. Set the meat aside for at least 30 minutes to marinate. If time allows, then pickling can be much longer.
When the meat absorbs the required amount of sauce and honey, it must be fried in a pan until cooked, while the remaining marinade should be poured immediately onto the meat. He caramelizes a product that will get a very attractive appearance.
At this stage, the whole complexity of preparing the filling lies. The thing is that the meat is cut into medium cubes, it takes time to cook them, and honey loves to quickly burn and turn into black soot. That is why the chef will have to choose the optimal degree of heating the pan (you can’t cook on a very hot), stir the product regularly and pour it into any other container as soon as it is ready. That is, you need to perfectly understand how the meat is fried and when it is ready, otherwise honey will burn too much, the product will not only not look appetizing, but hardly anyone will like the burnt taste.
Pour the rest of the sauce into the bowl with meat, and it is enough to chop the lettuce leaves finely and mix everything. Put the filling in tartlets. Sprinkle everything on top with sesame seeds. It will taste better if pre-fried in a pan. Tartlets with black sesame seeds look more impressive, it is a little more expensive than ordinary white, but for a banquet table you can be a little generous.
The easiest filling recipe
If you suddenly have guests, then in this case no one will bake the basics of shortcrust pastry or cheese, everything needs to be done very quickly, but do not forget about the taste. Everything is extremely simple, in the store you need to buy ready-made tartlets (most often they are sold from waffle dough), as well as purchase a ready-made paste and one cucumber.
Start the tartlets with the prepared paste, and cut the cucumber into thin half rings and place it on top as a decoration, you can also use greens or thin slices of cherry tomato, they will add a dish of colors. As you can see, everything is extremely simple and the cooking process takes no more than 10 minutes, and in the end you get very original and tasty tartlets. As an decoration, you can also use finely chopped bell peppers of different colors and lettuce.
Conclusion
The magic of cooking is that any recipe can be changed to suit your taste preferences. For example, mayonnaise is used in the filling, but it can always be replaced with sour cream or, in some cases, ketchup. If you don’t like chicken, then you can cook turkey, duck, pork or any other kind of meat that is suitable in a particular case.
In general, all products are interchangeable and recipes can be edited to your taste. Therefore, do not be afraid to improvise, because it was thanks to the experiments that the culinary industry reached such incredible heights. Tartlets are simple snacks that will certainly become the decoration of any festive table.