According to etiquette, cold snacks should always be on the table . And so I want them to look original and tasty. Therefore, for a beautiful decoration of the buffet table, and just for a solemn home feast, tartlets with caviar are always suitable.
Tartlets are a small basket of dough, which, in turn, can be fresh, yeast or pie. It already depends on the hostess's preferences and her culinary skills. Fillings are striking in their diversity. Often tartlets are made with caviar, but there may be options with vegetable or meat filling, as well as with sweet filling, which are served as a dessert. They are convenient for table decoration due to their shape, as well as the brightness of the components of the filling. But tartlets with caviar always look very interesting.
In order for tartlets with caviar to turn out to be tender and just melt in your mouth, you need to be able to properly prepare the dough. It should not be too brittle, or too tight and heavy. It will require the following components: wheat flour 250-300 grams, eggs - 2 pieces, margarine or butter - 100 grams, sour cream (from 15% fat) - 100 grams, 5 grams of table salt. Beat the eggs and salt with a mixer in the foam, add sour cream and knead everything until smooth. Pour the flour sifted through a fine-mesh sieve into the bowl (then the dough will be more fluffy and lighter), add the margarine chopped on the grater and mix until the consistency is uniform (the crumb will be the same size). Pour in the liquid components gradually and knead the dough with a mixer first, and when it becomes steep enough - with your hands. The dough should be well formed, so if necessary, add more flour. Hesitate and leave it to stand for some time (at least 15-20 minutes) on a table at a temperature of 18-26 ° C. This is necessary for better gluten swelling, which will make it more elastic.
The preparation of tartlets involves the use of metal molds, which are in almost every home. To begin, we roll out the dough with a thickness of not more than 3 mm and cut out the circle with improvised means (using the rim of the cup) 1-1.5 cm larger than the wide circle of the basket. This is done so that when laying the dough inside the mold and when dousing along the contours, a rim is formed, which will be the side walls of the tartlets. We pre-heat the molds in the oven, and then spread them with dough blanks. We put it on the grill and bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 ° C for 10-17 minutes until golden brown. We take out the baskets and let them cool for 4 minutes. Turn over and remove the finished tartlet.
Zealous housewives prepare tartlets prozapas. And to prepare the filling is a matter of several minutes. So you will always have a beautiful decoration of the dish, and you can experiment with tastes. If there is no time to spare and cook tartlets, then you can purchase ready-made semi-finished products in the store.
To prepare tartlets with red caviar, we will need the following products for the filling: red caviar - 150 grams, eggs - 2 pieces, cream cheese (or any rennet) - 200 grams. Instead of cheese, you can use cottage cheese, wiped through a sieve, seasoned with high-calorie mayonnaise. If desired, add shrimp meat (150 grams). Shrimps themselves first need to be lowered into cool boiling water for 3-6 minutes and removed with a slotted spoon, peeled and cut into thin strips. Hard-boiled eggs and grate on a medium grater. Combine the cheese mass with shrimp, add eggs, season it with mayonnaise (in this case, mayonnaise should be used as salad for better impregnation of the filling). Then it is necessary to fill the cooled tartlets with this mass 1 cm in height, lay the red caviar in one row with the top layer. Tartlets with caviar are ready. Serve to the table as a cold appetizer, as well as for an aperitif and coffee breaks.