It is said that tartlets (both the dish itself and various fillings) were invented by the French. These tasty small baskets are baked separately and together with the contents. The filling has many recipes. Among them are tartlets with salmon and curd cheese. This dish also has its own options. For example, they make tartlets with salmon and cottage cheese and cucumber. And there’s a recipe for avocados too. Let's try to cook?
Tartlets with salmon and curd cheese
The recipe for cooking is quite simple, but there are some nuances, without which not a single truly delicious dish can do! Let's talk about the ingredients first. These are, in fact, the dough baskets themselves, slightly salted salmon (pink), cheese mass and greens for decoration. Let us dwell on each.
How to bake tartlets?
They - the baskets themselves - are baked, as a rule, in the oven. You can buy ready-made ones at any supermarket, but homemade ones are tastier! In addition, for those who like to “mess up” with the recipe - it’s it! The basket oven is necessary in special molds. But the dough is different: fresh, sandy, custard, puff ... Let's try and we will study several options.
Shortbread dough
Ingredients: a glass of flour, a pack of margarine (100 grams), one egg yolk, a little sugar, salt, water.
Mix the salt with flour and beat the yolk with sugar. Cut margarine (or butter). Knead the dough, gradually pouring water into it. Then we remove it in the cold for 30 minutes. Then we roll it into thin layers (thickness - 3 mm). We arrange tartlets for tartlets next to each other. We cover with a layer of dough, we carry out a rolling pin so that it comes off. We remove the excess. Bake at a sufficiently high temperature for about 15 minutes. We fill the finished baskets with the chosen filling. Tartlets with salmon and curd cheese are ready. You can eat. Well, such a dish goes to receptions and receptions.
Fresh pastry
Ingredients: a glass of flour, 200 grams of butter, three yolks.
Mix flour with softened butter. Introduce the yolks. Knead the dough and remove in the cold for half an hour. Then bake in the oven, as in the first version. So that the dough in the molds does not “sulk”, you can put it on the bottom of a pea or pierce it in several places with a fork before cooking.
Cooking
To make tartlets with salmon and curd cheese, you need to mix the cheese with finely chopped herbs (dill, parsley). There we will also crush a small clove of garlic for taste and piquancy. You can do this directly in a blender, then you get a cream. Or you can just mix it by hand, then a more structural consistency is obtained. Next, we fill each basket with two-thirds of the cheese mass from a special culinary dispenser. If it is not at hand, we use a cellophane bag with a hole made in it.
A small salmon layer closes the structure from above. Of course, it is necessary to take slightly salted, but you can use smoked. For beauty, the layer can be placed in the form of a sail by piercing it with a wooden stick or a toothpick. The final touch - decorate with a sprig of parsley and dill. Delicious tartlets with salmon and curd cheese are ready to eat.
Option with caviar
Ingredients: baskets - 10 pieces, four eggs, a jar of red caviar (100 grams), 200 grams of soft curd cheese, a pair of spoons of Provencal mayonnaise, peeled shrimp - 100 grams, salmon (layers) - 150 grams.
Boil hard-boiled eggs and cut into cubes finely. Mash a soft cheese with an egg, adding mayonnaise and a little garlic. We squeeze the cheese-egg mixture with a dispenser or a bag into two-thirds in baskets. This is followed by a layer of salmon. Finally - shrimp and caviar (as beads for decoration). Additionally, you can stick a sprig of dill into the structure.
Option with Avocado
Ingredients: salmon fillet (seams) - 150 grams, two avocado fruits, 100 grams of cottage cheese soft cheese, lemon juice, dill for decorating dishes, baskets for tartlets.
Avocado peeled and pitted. Together with cheese, grind avocados in a blender. Season with lemon juice. We lay out the mass on tartlets. On top of each basket is a piece of salmon. Decorate with herbs (you can use slices of olives).
Option with cucumbers: "Matryoshka"
Ingredients: slightly salted salmon - 100 grams, soft cheese - 100 grams, two fresh cucumbers, one avocado, lemon juice, greens.
Finely chop the half of the cucumbers. The rest are long plates along. Cut red fish into long thin slices. Cut the avocado into cubes, having previously cleared the peel and seeds. Mix avocados, cucumbers and cheese. Put the resulting mass into baskets, seasoned with lemon juice. From the plates of cucumber and fish, we form rings and attach with skewers on top to hold well. Garnish with greens.
Such tartlets with salmon and curd cheese (photo above) are well suited for the holidays - New Year or Christmas.