Every housewife wants to present a holiday salad or any other appetizer beautifully. This is quite easy to do. Just put the dish in the tartlets. However, very often they are not of very good quality in stores, and during the holidays they can be difficult to find on supermarket shelves. For this reason, more and more people are interested in the question of how to bake tartlets at home.

What kind of dough is best to use?

Choosing the best recipe for baking tartlets at home is not an easy task. There are a lot of nuances in recipes. First of all, you need to decide on the choice of test. For tartlets you can use:

• unleavened dough;
• salty shortbread;
• regular shortbread dough;

It all depends only on your taste preferences and on which of the snacks you are going to serve in tartlets. However, it is worth considering that any yeast dough is unsuitable for their preparation. After the choice of dough has been made, you can look for a recipe on how to bake tartlets at home.

Puff pastry

First, let's look at how to bake puff pastry tartlets at home. It makes them airy, crispy and very tender. But it is worth considering that it must be without yeast. Otherwise, the baked goods will turn out too airy and will not have the required shape. Making puff pastry at home is quite problematic. It's easier to buy ready-made in the store. This will save not only your time, but also your nerves. But if you wish, you can prepare this dough at home, yourself. For this you will need the following ingredients:

• three glasses of sifted wheat flour;
• egg;
• some water;
• one tablespoon of vodka;
• nine percent vinegar;
• a pack of butter or margarine weighing two hundred grams.

Break the chicken egg into a separate bowl and beat with a little salt and vodka. Add warm boiled water to this mixture, approximately 200 ml. Add vinegar there too. Next, gradually stir in the flour. Knead the dough until it stops sticking to your hands. Afterwards it should be put in a warm place for 15-20 minutes.

In the meantime, it’s worth preparing the oil. It must be cut into cubes and mixed with a small amount of flour, approximately 50-60 grams. We also knead the dough from this mixture. Afterwards it should be wrapped in parchment and rolled out.

Next, place the layer on the dough and put it in the refrigerator for ten to fifteen minutes. The layer of butter should be placed in the middle so that it can be covered with dough on each side. The resulting roll must be rolled out well with a rolling pin.

We fold the rolled out layer again several times and roll it out again with a rolling pin. The more times you repeat the procedure, the more layers you get. Next is the process of how to bake puff pastry tartlets at home.

Recipe

We dig the dough into a thin layer, its thickness should be no more than ten millimeters. We cut it into small squares or use a culinary ring and cut out circles of small diameter. Next, grease the molds with vegetable oil. This is necessary for easier removal of baked goods from the molds. Then you should put foil in the molds with the dough, and a small weight on it. They can serve as peas or nuts. This is necessary in order to give the tartlets the desired bowl shape.

This way you can bake tartlets at home in silicone and metal molds.

Shortbread dough

Now about how to bake shortcrust pastry tartlets at home. This recipe is very simple. It will be understandable to every housewife and will take a little time. It is very good to put an appetizer of red fish or caviar in such tartlets. To prepare salted shortbread dough we will need:

• two hundred grams of wheat flour;
• butter or margarine - about one hundred grams;
• two chicken eggs, or better yet one egg and one yolk;
• 1/4 teaspoon salt.

From the above quantities of ingredients you will get approximately ten to twelve tartlets. If necessary, the quantity of products can be doubled.

Shortcrust pastry recipe

Shortbread dough is very easy to prepare. Even a novice cook can handle it. To do this, sift the flour into a deep bowl. This must be done in order to saturate the flour with oxygen, so the baked goods will turn out more tender and airy. Then add margarine and salt chopped into small cubes to the flour. Grind until large crumbs form. Next, add the eggs and knead the stiff dough. Don't do this for too long. This way the tartlets will not be crumbly.

Afterwards, wrap the dough in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for thirty minutes.

How to cook

Well, now about how to bake tartlets at home. A cooking recipe that will also not cause difficulties or questions.

Sprinkle the table with flour and roll out the cold dough onto it into a layer. Its thickness should not be more than five millimeters. Cut the dough into squares or cut out circles. Their diameter should be slightly larger than the diameter of the molds. Then place them in greased molds. If there is excess dough, it should be cut off with a knife. Afterwards, you can send the forms with the dough to an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Baking time is twenty minutes.

Well-prepared shortcrust pastry does not require additional load. But just in case, you can put it in, as is the case with puff pastry.

Tartlets with sour cream dough

There are quite a lot of recipes with photos on how to bake tartlets at home. However, most of them are made from shortcrust pastry. Many people don’t like him and consider him too tough. For this category of citizens I would like to offer a recipe for sour cream dough. For this we need:

• a hundred-gram jar of sour cream, you can use any fat content;
• warm butter or margarine, about one hundred grams;
• two glasses of sifted wheat flour;
• half a teaspoon of baking soda;
• a little vinegar.

Pour the sifted flour into a deep bowl, preferably not metal. Add sour cream and melted butter there. Then we extinguish the soda with vinegar and add it to the flour. From the prepared ingredients, knead a stiff, but not too dense dough. As you knead, you can add a little flour if necessary. Place the finished dough in the refrigerator for fifteen minutes.

Then roll out the dough and cut out squares or circles from it and place them in greased molds. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Tartlets from this type of dough are baked very quickly, about seven to ten minutes.

How to cook without molds

But how to bake tartlets at home without molds? Everything is not as complicated as it might seem initially. For this you can use any dough that you like best. It is rolled out into a layer, the thickness of which should be approximately one centimeter. Then circles are cut out with a ring or glass. A glass slightly smaller in diameter is placed in their center. Then press lightly on the dough to create an indentation in it. We put foil and weight in it. For cargo, you can use peas, beans or rice. Place the prepared tartlets on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Place it in a preheated oven for ten to fifteen minutes.

That’s the whole secret of how to bake tartlets at home; preparing them does not cause absolutely any difficulties.

Recipe for snacks in tartlets

Well, now about what kind of appetizer can be served in tartlets.

One of the simplest and most accessible, but at the same time very tasty and tender, is an appetizer with cheese and bell pepper. In order to prepare it, we will need the following products:

• tartlets, store-bought or homemade, ten pieces;
• two chicken eggs;
• one large sweet pepper, you can take half of different colors, so the snack will look more original;
• processed cheese, one hundred and fifty grams;
• greens for decoration.

Boil the chicken eggs and set aside to cool. At this time, wash the sweet peppers and remove seeds. Then peel the eggs and cut them into small cubes. The pepper also needs to be finely chopped. Then, in a separate bowl, mix the processed cheese, preferably in trays, eggs and pepper. If necessary, add salt to taste. Mix everything thoroughly. Place the finished mixture into tartlets. Decorate with finely chopped herbs.

You can also serve an appetizer of crab sticks in tartlets. To prepare it, you need to prepare the following products:

• ten to twelve tartlets;
• 200 gram package of crab meat or sticks;
• 3 chicken eggs;
• hard cheese, any type, one hundred and fifty grams;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• greenery;
• mayonnaise.

Eggs must be hard-boiled, cooled and shelled. Next, finely chop them. We also cut the crab sticks into small cubes. Grate the cheese and add minced or finely chopped garlic to it. Then we mix all the products, season them with mayonnaise, salt to taste and put them in tartlets. On top of the appetizer you can decorate with half a cherry tomato and herbs.

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When thinking about the menu for a festive table, every self-respecting housewife has two main goals - to feed deliciously and certainly to surprise the guests with something. This is where unimaginable recipes are invented, designer decorations are made from vegetables and fruits for salads, and, at worst, napkins embroidered by the hostess themselves are used.

Today I offer you a simpler and more original way to amaze guests and household members - tartlets. This dish will diversify and decorate your table; moreover, it is quite simple to prepare, and the filling can be prepared in a few minutes if desired.

Today we will learn recipes for tartlet dough and choose tartlet molds. I will also give a couple of interesting examples of puff pastry tartlets.

There are two main types of tartlets - sweet and savory, so the dough for tartlets can also be prepared in different ways.

Dough for tartlets

Compound:
Flour - 3 cups
Margarine - 200 g
Sour cream - 200 g

Chop the flour with margarine or butter with a knife until crumbly, add sour cream, knead, put in the refrigerator for an hour.

Shortbread tartlet dough

Compound:
Flour - 3 cups
Margarine or butter - 250 g
Sugar - 1 glass
Egg - 2-3 pieces

Grind the sugar with the eggs until foam forms and carefully add the softened margarine. Mix everything with flour and knead into a stiff dough. Place in a cool place for 30 minutes.

Unleavened tartlet dough

Compound:
Flour - 300 g
Butter - 200g
Egg yolks - 3 pieces.

Mix flour with softened butter, add yolks. Knead the dough, put it in a cool place for 30 minutes.

Sweet tartlet dough

Flour - 1.5 cups
Egg - 1 piece
Butter - 100g
Sugar - 2 tbsp. l.

Grind the egg with sugar, mix the flour with softened butter. Combine everything and knead the dough. Set aside for 30 minutes.

Sweet coffee tartlet dough

Compound:
Flour - 225 g
Powdered sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
Coffee (strong, cold) - 2 tbsp. l.
Butter - 150 g
Egg yolk - 1

Mix flour and sugar, add finely chopped butter. Mix the yolk well with the coffee. Knead the dough and knead well for several minutes. Roll into a ball, wrap in cling film and place in a cool place for 20 minutes.

Curd tartlet dough

Compound:
Flour - 200 g
Margarine - 200 g
Cottage cheese (low-fat) - 200 g

Mix all ingredients, knead the dough.

Crumbled cheese tartlet dough

Compound:
Cheese - 100 g
Flour - 1 cup
Butter - 100 g
Egg - 1 piece

Grate the cheese, add softened butter, flour, add an egg or just the yolk if you need a denser dough. Knead the dough and put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. Apply a thin layer to tartlet molds.

As you can see, the dough recipes are quite varied. Unsalted dough is almost universal, however, for sweet tartlets it is better to prepare the dough with added sugar. Curd and cheese dough can be used to make tartlets with savory fillings and herbs.

In addition to the recipes listed, you can also use puff pastry. Puff pastry for tartlets can be different: classic and quick-cooking, yeast and yeast-free puff pastry. A recipe for such a test is not difficult to find. But the easiest way is to just buy ready-made puff pastry; frozen dough, which is easy to find in every supermarket, is also quite suitable for tartlets.

Puff pastry It is notable for the fact that you can use its special qualities to prepare tartlets of an original shape. And I want to give a couple of examples here.

Puff pastry shell tartlets

To prepare them you will need frozen yeast puff pastry. The dough needs to be thawed and rolled out slightly. Then use a tartlet mold to cut out the pieces. Press each workpiece a little with your fingers on one side - this is where the flaps will join. Then use a knife to lightly draw straight diverging lines from the central lower part to the upper edge - you will get a pattern like a real shell.

Then grease the baking sheet and place the pieces on it, first brushing with egg yolk. Bake at 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes. When the tartlets have cooled, carefully cut them down the middle, dividing them into 2 wings. Do not cut all the way through - they should be held together in a flat place. Now you can fill your shells with any filling. To complete the look, you can put an olive in the center - it will replace the pearl.

Puff pastry leaf tartlets

To do this, take puff pastry for tartlets, bought in a store or prepared yourself, roll it out, and cut it into the shape of leaves. You can use a real piece of large-sized paper, or you can make a stencil first.

Then, stepping back from the edge, we cut the leaf a little around the entire perimeter. There is no need to cut all the way through, just mark the width of the sides. Brush the edges of the leaf with egg yolk. Place the pieces on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown at a temperature of 180 degrees. When the puff pastry tartlets are ready, take the hot leaves and remove the layer of dough from the middle, leaving the edges that you marked earlier untouched. We will get a leaf with a depression in the middle, which is filled with filling.

Now let's talk about tartlet molds. They are usually made of tin or carbon steel, and tartlet molds are available with a non-stick coating. Silicone tartlet molds are now widely used. Their convenience lies in the fact that the finished basket is easier to separate from the silicone coating. It is also convenient that molds for silicone tartlets are like a tray, where several forms are fastened together.

If you don’t have time to bake tartlets and you can’t buy ready-made ones, you can use tartlet molds made of cardboard, paper, or parchment. Another option is to make the tartlets yourself.

You also need to know how to fill out tartlet molds correctly.
Most often this is done simply. The rolled out layer of dough is cut into circles using a glass or the same tartlet mold. Then the circle is placed on the bottom of the mold and pressed lightly. Then distribute the edges so that they repeat the pattern of the side of the tartlet mold.
You can divide the dough into small balls, which are then placed in a mold, and then distributed over the bottom and sides of the mold.

If the dough is too thin, then try this trick. Roll out the dough, then slightly stick the edge of the layer to the rolling pin and wrap it around. Place the tartlet pans as close to each other as possible. Bring the dough to the molds on a rolling pin and begin to roll it out so that it covers the top of the molds. Now roll the dough with a rolling pin so that the edges of the molds press the circles you need into the layer. Place them carefully into tartlet tins.

Tartlets are usually baked at a temperature of 180-240 degrees, depending on the dough, size and filling. You can put the filling right away, or you can put it in a ready-made tartlet. If you bake the tartlets separately, take note of one trick that will help avoid burning.

Experienced housewives, in order to prevent the tartlet from burning, most often fill the bottom with cereal or dry beans, after placing the workpiece in a tartlet mold. After the tartlet is ready and removed from the oven, the cereal or beans are poured out.
You can also cover the bottom of the workpiece with parchment.

Tartlets are small edible baskets for serving snacks. They are baked from different doughs, and we offer you several options.

Homemade tartlet dough recipe

Ingredients:

• margarine – 200 g;
• flour – 300 g;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• sugar – 100 g.

Preparation

Sift the flour in advance and mix it with chopped margarine. Thoroughly knead everything into crumbs and set aside. Beat the egg separately and gradually add salt and sugar. Then carefully pour the resulting mixture into the flour and knead into a soft dough. Place it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. After that, pinch off pieces from it, put them in molds and distribute the dough over the entire surface, leveling it with your fingers. Place the pieces in the preheated oven and bake for about 10 minutes. That's all, the delicious tartlet dough is ready!

How to make puff pastry tartlets?

Ingredients:

• yeast – 500 g;
• flour – 20 g;
• egg – 1 pc.

Preparation

So, take the defrosted puff pastry, lay it out on a flat surface sprinkled with flour, and roll it out into a thin layer with a rolling pin. Then we cut it into small squares and make cross-shaped cuts on each piece with a knife right in the center. Now carefully transfer them to a baking sheet and prick them in several places with a fork. Place the tartlets in a preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes at 170 degrees. After that, cool them and proceed to filling them to your taste.

Shortcrust pastry recipe for tartlets

Ingredients:

• flour – 3 tbsp;
• egg yolks – 2 pcs.;
• fresh milk – 100 ml;
• margarine – 200 g;
• baking powder - a pinch;
• fine salt - a pinch.

Preparation

To prepare dough for tartlets at home, take softened margarine and grind it in a bowl, gradually adding milk. Then add the egg yolks and mix thoroughly with a whisk. Next, add sifted flour in parts, throw in fine salt and baking powder. Mix the mass with your hands until it has an elastic and fluffy consistency and cool for 30 minutes, putting it in the refrigerator. Next, roll out the dough into a thin layer, cut into circles, place in muffin tins and distribute evenly over the bottom and sides. Bake unsweetened tartlet dough in a preheated oven at 180 degrees until browned.

This is not the first time I’ve taken note of a recipe from the home_bread blog. This time I liked the original tartlets, baked without molds and consisting half of vegetables, so much that I made them almost immediately!

The authors suggested wheat flour with bran for the dough, but I used whole grain flour. I used the same filling, i.e. from pieces of sweet pepper and suluguni cheese, but I think that next time I will try to bake tartlets with other fillings: fried egg, egg with bacon, assorted vegetables, mushrooms with cheese, etc. Or I’ll bake these tartlets and then put some kind of salad in them: vegetable, chicken, meat, mushroom... They are quite suitable even for a holiday table.

To prepare tartlets without molds, prepare the ingredients according to the list.

Measure out the required amount of flour, add salt, sugar, baking powder, and mix.

Pour in a mixture of water, vegetable oil and eggs.

Mix all ingredients and knead into a thick but elastic dough. Adjust it with water or flour...

Remove the seeds from the peppers and cut the wide parts into rings of the desired width (from 2 to 4 cm).

I got 10 pieces, and cut the rest of the peppers into small cubes.

Suluguni (or other) cheese also cut into cubes (or grate), add spices and herbs (here is a mixture of dry Provençal herbs). Add salt if desired, stir, and the filling mixture is ready.

Roll out the dough into a thin layer and cut into triangles in such quantity as to be enough for all the pepper rings.

Wrap a triangular piece of dough around each pepper ring as shown in the photo, i.e. corners - inside the ring.

Place the filling on the pieces.

Bake the tartlets without molds in a preheated oven for about 15 minutes at 200 degrees.

The cheese in the filling should melt and the filling should brown. The dough won't look much different.

Tartlets without molds and, so to speak, made from peppers and peppers are ready.

Bon appetit!

The art of preparing delicious dishes does not end with the fact that you have correctly introduced all the ingredients, followed all the instructions during the cooking process, added all the spices correctly and added your own touch to the process, based on the taste needs of your loved ones, family and guests. A delicious dish can become even tastier if you learn how to properly present your masterpiece, decorate it beautifully, serve it appropriately to the table, so that the taste of your creation goes beautifully with the dishes that you served before, or will serve later. Well, what if you decided, for example, to serve only one dish into which you poured your whole soul? Here, too, its presentation to the table plays an important role.

World culinary experts have developed several interesting ideas that will make any of your dishes even more interesting. One of these culinary creations is called a tartlet. You've probably heard more than once that all decorations on the table should be edible. Indeed, it is not very pleasant to watch such a picture when your guests begin to take away this or that decoration on their plate, knowing full well that they cannot eat it. Or even worse - you presented, for example, a beautiful dish decorated with artificial decoration, and your guests did not correctly understand your idea and decided to present it to their mouths. Your response to such a movement will be unambiguous: “This cannot be eaten, it is only for decoration.” Naturally, you yourself feel unpleasant, especially since your guests will find themselves in an uncomfortable situation. To avoid this, today we will learn how to prepare tartlets that not only look beautiful on the table, but will also decorate your dish and highlight its taste. For tartlets, you can prepare any filling at your discretion, the main thing is that it is not liquid and does not soften the dough of your tartlets. Tartlets made from hard cheese are original. When you already learn how to bake tartlets well, I recommend that you add chopped herbs when kneading the dough. In this case, the taste of your products will be even more piquant and refined.

Recipe 1. Dough for tartlets

Required ingredients:

- margarine or butter - 200 g;

- wheat flour - 2 cups;

– eggs – 2 pcs. or egg yolks 4 pcs.;

- and salt.

Cooking method:

If you want white tartlets, then we recommend using whole eggs. For yellow tartlets, it is better to use only yolks. So, from all the ingredients we will knead the dough, which is very similar to the dough for dumplings. Roll the dough into a “bun”, cover it with baking paper and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. While the dough is resting, prepare metal tartlet molds. Lubricate them with oil, pay special attention to the corrugation so that later the tartlets do not stick and break. Sprinkle with flour. Roll out the tartlet dough to a thickness of at least 0.5 cm and cut out circles the size of your molds. You can cut it into squares and place it on top of the mold. Roll with a rolling pin and the dough will take shape on its own, leaving the excess on the table. (just like we make dumplings at the dumpling maker). Use your finger to smooth out the dough in the pans. Sprinkle some dry peas or beans on the bottom of future tartlets so that the dough does not rise during baking, and bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.

Recipe 2. Tartlets with fish filling

Ingredients: tartlets prepared according to recipe No. 1.

Now all that remains is to prepare the filling. To do this, prepare fillets of any sea fish, semi-sharp Korean carrots, onions, garlic, mayonnaise and lemon.

Cooking method:

Let's put the fish in salted water, add fish spices, be sure to add 3 large slices of lemon, which will successfully remove the smell.

Remove the skin from the finished fish and cut it into small pieces. Fry the onion in oil and add it to the carrots. Pass a few cloves of garlic through the garlic press. Add a little lemon juice, garlic and mayonnaise to the fish. Mix and fill the prepared tartlets. Decorate the top with a mesh of mayonnaise and a slice of lemon.

Recipe 3. Tartlets with cheese

An excellent option for a “Swiss table”.

Required ingredients:

– flour – 100 g;

— butter – 4 tbsp;

- salt, cold water - 2 tbsp;

- yolk - 1 pc.

For the salad:

– cream – 300 g;

— egg – 1 pc.;

— egg yolks – 3 pcs.;

— Feta cheese – 120 g;

- olives, rosemary, pepper and salt.

Cooking method:

Turn on the oven at 200 degrees. Let's prepare the molds. Sift the flour twice and add butter and a little salt. Knead the dough with your hands and roll into a ball. Cover with a towel and let it sit in the refrigerator for half an hour. Then we roll out the dough and handle it in the same way as we described above. This dough should give you 12 beautiful tartlets. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes, just don’t forget to prick the dough and put beans on the bottom.

The tartlets are baked, and we will prepare the filling. In a cup, mix the egg yolks with the egg, pour in the cream and beat with a mixer.

Feta cheese cut into cubes. Place the cheese among the tartlets and fill with the resulting mixture. Place sliced ​​olives on top and sprinkle with rosemary. Let's put the tartlets back in the oven for 15 minutes, and we can serve.

Recipe 4. Tartlets with caviar

Let's prepare the tartlets first. Take the tartlet dough recipe from the first recipe.

For filling:

– red caviar – 150 g;

– shrimp – 400 g;

— eggs – 6 pcs.;

— champignons – 200 g;

— mayonnaise – 200 g;

- vegetable oil 1.5-2 tbsp.

Cooking method:

Wash the champignons and cut them into small pieces. Fry the mushrooms in vegetable oil for about 10 minutes over low heat. In a separate pan we need to boil the eggs (10 minutes after boiling) and immediately transfer them to cold water. Peel and grate. Boil water and immerse shrimp in it for 2 minutes. Immediately drain the water and cool the shrimp. Peel, remove the central vein and cut them into small pieces. Place all prepared products in one bowl, add salt and pepper to taste, add mayonnaise and mix. The filling for your tartlets is ready. All that remains is to fill them and decorate them with red caviar.

Recipe 5. Tartlets with mushrooms

Required ingredients:

— champignons – 500 g;

– cheese – 100 g;

- onions - 2 pcs.;

- ground black pepper and salt, vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

Peel the prepared mushrooms, wash them well and dry. Then peel the onion and cut into small pieces. Cut the champignons in half and cut into slices. Place chopped onion in a frying pan and when it becomes transparent, add a little salt and add mushrooms. Stirring, cook the mushrooms and onions until cooked - about 20 minutes. Pepper the mushrooms and add salt if necessary. But, attention! If you use salted cheese, then this is worth taking into account - do not oversalt! Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Set aside 1 tbsp. cheese - we will need it for decoration. When the mushrooms have cooled, mix it with the cheese and fill your shortbread tartlets with the resulting mixture. Sprinkle grated cheese on top of each filled tartlet.

A great addition to these tartlets is green crispy lettuce and marinated olives!

Recipe 6. Chicken tartlets

Let's learn how to make cheese tartlets. Let's prepare: hard cheese – 300 g and starch – 2 tbsp.

Cooking method:

Grate the cheese on a fine grater, add starch to it and mix. Heat a frying pan with a thick bottom. Place a tablespoon of the cheese mixture into the pan and cover with a lid. We want the following result - the cheese at the bottom should brown a little, but just melt on top. While the cheese pancakes are cooking, prepare a glass - turn it upside down. Open the lid, and if the result is already obvious, quickly lift the cheese pancake with a spatula and turn it over with the melted side towards the bottom of the glass. Using your fingers, press the edges of the cheese pancake to form a beautiful tartlet. When the cheese has cooled a little, remove it from the glass. Continue baking all the remaining portions.

Now let's get to the filling:

— chicken fillet – 250 g;

— champignons – 300 g;

- mayonnaise;

- greenery; pepper and salt, cheese tartlets – 20 pcs.

Carefully cut the chicken fillet into small pieces. Grease the bottom of the frying pan with oil and fry the meat in it. The frying process should last 10-15 minutes. During this time, we finely chop the onion, and when the meat is already cooked, add the onion, cover the frying pan with a lid and continue the process.

Wash the mushrooms, dry them and cut them into small pieces. Add to the chicken and onions, mix and continue cooking under the lid until the mushrooms absorb all the liquid that they release. Season with salt and ground black pepper and mix. To taste, you can add a little aromatic herbs to the chicken and mushroom filling. When the mixture has cooled a little, fill the prepared cheese tartlets, pour sour cream or mayonnaise on top, garnish with green parsley leaves and serve.

Recipe 7. Julienne in tartlets

Puff pastry tartlets are ideal for this dish. To do this, you can buy ready-made yeast puff pastry, defrost it and bake it in the usual way in molds.

For the julienne we will prepare:

— champignons – 8 pcs.;

– cheese – 50 g;

- sour cream - 100 g;

— onion – 0.5 pcs.;

- a pinch of Provençal herbs, salt and vegetable oil.

I think that many of you know that julienne, translated from French, is a way of cutting vegetables into strips. First, let's prepare the ingredients. Chop the onion. Wash the champignons, dry them and cut into strips. Pour a little vegetable oil into the frying pan and add chopped onion. After 2 minutes, add champignon straws and mix. Add spices, cover with a lid and cook the mushrooms until tender. Finally, add salt. Now add sour cream to the mushrooms and mix again. Place the finished tartlets on a baking sheet, fill with filling, sprinkle grated cheese on top and place them in the oven at 200*C for 5 minutes. Garnish the finished julienne tartlets with a sprig of rosemary and serve immediately hot.

Recipe 8. Pizza in tartlets

You think that pizza can only be served in our usual way. But no - original pizza in tartlets in our recipe.

Required ingredients:

— butter – 50 g;

– flour – 250 g;

- sour cream - 100 g;

– smoked sausage – 200 g;

— cherry tomatoes – 3 pcs.;

- thick tomato paste - 3 tbsp;

— hard cheese – 100 g;

- parsley.

Cooking method:

First, prepare the dough for the tartlets. Knead a soft and elastic dough from sour cream, flour and butter. Be sure to add salt to the dough, otherwise your pizza will lose its taste. Place the finished dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, then roll it out into a layer and cut out circles according to the shape of your molds. Grease the molds with oil and place the dough. Press it with your fingers and place a few beans on the bottom. Bake the pizza tartlets for 15 minutes at 1802 degrees. During this time, they should not brown, but remain white.

We select the dough from the molds and grease each of them with thick tomato.

We cut the sausage into rings, as we usually do for pizza. Place them on tomato paste. Sprinkle grated cheese on top of the sausage. Cut the cherry into circles and place them on top of the cheese. Place your already filled tartlets again on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 10 minutes until done.

Decorate the finished pizza tartlets with herbs and serve.

It is not only tasty, but also original.

In exactly the same way, you can prepare pizza with any other topping at your discretion.

— When preparing the filling for tartlets, pay attention to its consistency. The filling should be tender and thick.

— When preparing dough for tartlets, you can use any spices and herbs that will give the baskets an original appearance and emphasize the taste of their filling.

— Tartlets are an ideal solution when decorating a “Swiss table” at buffets. If you decide to serve tartlets at a picnic, we recommend not filling them at home. It’s better to bring the fillings to the picnic in separate containers, and fill the tartlets on the spot and leave them to soak for 10 minutes. After that, you can serve them to your guests.

— Be sure to decorate each tartlet on top with cheese, herbs, caviar, cherry tomatoes, etc.