Tartlet - a basket of pastry (fresh, puff, shortbread), which is stuffed with salads, pastes, and sometimes desserts. Such a dish will always become an adornment of any table, will bring a lot of pleasure to children. You can sometimes set aside time to please loved ones.
You can make tartlets from unleavened dough. To do this, chop three glasses of flour with margarine into crumbs, add sour cream, knead plastic dough. It must be put in the refrigerator for an hour. Carefully fill the cooked mold in the form of baskets with dough. You can roll the balls, put in the middle of the molds, distribute throughout the form. Or roll out the mugs from the dough, and then put them in the mold. Bake tartlets at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. When the baskets from the dough are ready, first cool, and then remove them from the form, begin.
For the test you will need: margarine - 200 g, sour cream - 200 g, flour - 3 cups.
If there is still no time to prepare the dough, buy frozen puff pastry in the store or ready-made tartlets.
Shortcrust pastry, in which sugar and egg are added, is more suitable for sweet fillings.
In general, any salad or pate can be a filling for tartlets . I will give some examples.
Recipe for tartlets stuffed with squid. Prepare squid (cook and cool), cut into strips. Just chop and pickled sweet pepper. Finely chopped boiled eggs, green and onions. Combine all products, season with mayonnaise. Stuff the tartlets, sprinkle with dill.
You will need: squid - 200 g, pickled peppers - 100 g, 1 pc of onions and 30 g of green onions, boiled eggs - 2 pcs, mayonnaise - 1-2 tablespoons.
A recipe for tartlets stuffed with herring and apples. First boil one potato and one small beet, then cool and grate. Finely chop the apple, cucumber, boiled egg, and onion. Combine all ingredients with finely chopped herring fillet (100 g), season with mayonnaise, add salt and ground pepper. Stuff the tartlets, garnish with a circle of boiled egg and herbs.
And here's another recipe for filling with herring. Smoked herring pulp must be finely chopped. Rub the cottage cheese. Chop onion, fry it with two tablespoons of tomato puree. Combine the cottage cheese with herring and onions, add mustard, season with sour cream, mix thoroughly. put in tartlets, garnish with a circle of tomato.
Ingredients: mustard - 15 g, sour cream - ½ cup, smoked herring - 100 g, cottage cheese - 200 g, onion - 1 pc.
Recipe for tartlets stuffed with carrots (sweet). Grate the carrots, cut the apples into thin strips, mix with fried oatmeal. Season with whipped cream or condensed milk. Stuff the tartlets, sprinkle with nut crumbs.
Recipe for tartlets stuffed with carrots (spicy). Grate the carrots, chop the garlic, chop the walnuts. Combine all ingredients with salt, sugar and mayonnaise. Stuff tartlets, garnish with parsley. For 200 g of raw carrots, you need 2 cloves of garlic, 50 g of mayonnaise, 50 g of walnut kernels, salt and sugar to taste.
Stuffing for tartlets with mushrooms. Fry the mushrooms in oil with onions. Finely chopped boiled eggs. Mix mushrooms, eggs and canned green peas , season with mayonnaise. Grate the cheese. Stuff the tartlets, sprinkle thickly with cheese, put in the microwave for a few seconds so that the cheese melts.
Ingredients: champignon mushrooms - 100 g, boiled eggs - 3 pcs, onions - 2 pcs, green peas - 50 g, cheese - 50 g.
Stuffing for tartlets with salmon. Mildly salted salmon, finely chopped dill, grated soft cream cheese, mix, grate the frozen butter there. Beat everything well in a blender. Stuff tartlets, garnish with greens. For this filling, one hundred grams of salmon, cheese and butter will be required.