A stuffed tartlet is a small basket of shortcrust pastry that is filled with all kinds of fillings. For baking them at home, special forms are sold. And you can, of course, buy ready-made baskets in the store and stay at home only to fill them with contents.

For the holidays, a beautiful and convenient table setting is a very big deal, and the hostess will help with this - snacks and desserts in small portioned edible plates, which can be decorated, giving the festive table sophistication and chic, beauty and originality.

Recipes:

The Old World of Europe is considered the birthplace of tartlets. Presumably small baskets for serving dessert were used in ancient Rome. The modern name of French origin, it means - a small cake. Before the French came up with this name, tartlets were called pate, they were filled with all kinds of delicacies - game, fish of valuable varieties, meat delicacies.

Many patented recipes were given the names of noble persons and lands in which the recipe was invented, for example, "Pate a la Mazarin" or Lorraine pate.

There are many recipes for dough for baking tartlets - here you have puff and unleavened, shortbread and potato, corn. Although tartlets are sold in all large stores these days, what if someone wants to bake snack baskets themselves?

Chop four hundred grams of flour in a bowl with softened butter, take about 200 grams of butter, turning the contents into an oily crumb.

In a glass of water, dissolve half a teaspoon of salt for non-sweet tartlets or a little salt and three tablespoons of sugar if the filling is sweet.

Pour the water into a bowl and knead the dough thoroughly with your hands until it becomes elastic and resilient, if necessary add a little flour or water.

We keep the dough in the refrigerator in a plastic bag for 4 hours and you can form baskets and bake them in the oven.

The walls of the baskets must be made thin and equal in thickness to make the dish look appetizing.

If there are no molds, but you really want to, you can cut the circles out of the rolled juices with a large glass and put them on smaller cups turned upside down, put on a baking sheet, so that the edges hang down and bake in this form.

Or you can cut out squares, then the tartlets will have a very original shape with uneven corners.

There is no limit to the imagination of those who want to please and surprise their loved ones!

The more often tartlets are filled on the festive table - popular fillings

In European cuisine, the contents of the baskets are most often sweet, so the dough for them is made sweetened.

Russian housewives serve in baskets mainly cold snacks, salads - meat, fish, vegetable and cheese, all kinds of pates.

In some recipes, the contents are baked along with a basket, mostly, of course, these are cheese-based fillings.

When making tartlets, there are several subtleties and rules:

1. If the contents of the tartlets do not require additional manipulations - baking or cooling to thicken, then fill them right before serving, as the basket may get wet.
2. The simplest filling for tartlets is salads. He took it from a bowl with a spoon, laid it out, sprinkled with herbs on top and carried it to the table.
3. Any salad can be put in tartlets, and he will only benefit from this.
4. Salt in tartlets should be used with caution, since many of the products used in the filling are ready-made products and already contain the required amount of salt.
5. The tartlet must necessarily look beautiful, for this they use such techniques as decorating with herbs - for meat, fish, vegetables and cheese, chocolate, nuts, fruits and confectionery for sweets.
6. Finely chopped greens can be added to the tartlet dough - this will add spice to the dish and surprise guests.

Classic tartlets with red caviar and butter on a festive table

I have two options for creating such tartlets, the first is more beautiful and pleasing to the eye - a large amount of caviar, and the second ... also beautiful, but more delicious!

To create the first option, we need:

• about twenty ready-made baked baskets,
• can of red caviar,
• standard packaging of butter,
• for the second option, another hundred grams of lightly salted red fish, which one everyone decides for himself - I prefer salmon.

Recipe:

Option without frills.

Put butter on the table for a couple of hours so that it becomes soft, because we are preparing the decoration of the festive table and everything should be beautiful and appetizing with us.

Lubricate the inner surface of the basket with a layer of oil, it is best to do this with a teaspoon, I take a rounded spoon, it is more difficult to put the butter evenly with an elongated nose.

Lay a layer of caviar on top, here it is important not to overdo it - caviar should be in moderation. Although it is considered chic to eat red caviar with tablespoons, but in fact it is not very tasty! Decorate with a green twig, you're done.

The second option is more labor-intensive, but also more delicious.

A piece of red fish is chopped into dust in a food processor with a knife, whipped together with softened butter.

The tartlets are filled in half with the mixture, you can use a pastry bag or syringe, lay the whipped mass in beautiful circles or monograms, but you can just gently spoon it. Caviar is laid on top and sprinkled with finely chopped herbs.

A wonderful hearty snack that will make an indelible impression on the guests at the festive table! .. It is also perfect for a family dinner in a small circle.

Products:

• about twenty baked baskets;
• boiled chicken breast, lightly salt the water during boiling;
• a pound of fresh mushrooms, champignons or young mushrooms are great;
• a glass of thick homemade sour cream;
• a couple of eggs;
• two hundred grams of hard cheese.

Let's start cooking:

1. Lightly fry the mushrooms in a pan, season with salt and pepper, turn off the hotplate and add a spoonful of sour cream, stir. Add finely chopped boiled chicken breast.
2. Mix the remaining sour cream with eggs and add some salt.
3. Fill the baskets with the cooked chicken-mushroom mixture, fill them with eggs with sour cream and sprinkle with grated cheese.
4. We bake in the oven for twenty minutes.

Add ham here and the dish will be called - Lick your fingers!

• twenty baked baskets;
• three hundred grams of quality ham;
• three hundred grams of any pickled mushrooms ;
• one hundred grams of feta cheese;
• four tablespoons of quality mayonnaise;
• pickled onion in Korean, one hundred grams.

Preparation:

1. Cut the mushrooms in half, if they are too big - in quarters, put them on the bottom of the baskets.
2. Cut the cheese and ham into small cubes, mix with mayonnaise and fill the baskets.
3. Lay out beautifully pickled onions on top.

Recipe - it couldn't be simpler and delicious, especially in winter, when you so want fresh vegetables!

• two large but firm ripe tomatoes;
• one hundred grams of feta cheese;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• a bunch of dill and onions;
• three tablespoons of mayonnaise.

Preparation:

1. Cut the tomatoes into cubes.
2. Cut the cheese into small cubes, mix with crushed garlic and mayonnaise, fill the tartlets with this mixture to half.
3. Put the tomatoes on top and add a little salt.
4. Decorate with greens of dill and young green onions, serve.

Delicious dish, delicate and spicy, quick to prepare. Guests and family will be satisfied.

• a can of canned cod liver;
• hard cheese 100 grams;
• three hard-boiled eggs;
• pair pickled small cucumbers ;
• medium onion;
• half a glass of mayonnaise;
• pieces of 15 baked baskets;
• greens for decoration - finely chopped young onions and parsley sprigs.

Preparation:

1. Grate the cheese on a fine grater, and the eggs on a coarse grater. Add cod liver crushed with a fork, add mayonnaise, but not all, leave about a tablespoon, mix.
2. Cut the onion and cucumbers into small cubes, mix with a little mayonnaise and put on the bottom of the baskets.
3. Top with the mixture with the liver.
4. Sprinkle with green onions and stick in a sprig of parsley.

The dish is remarkably tasty, with a rich fishy taste! For more festivity and variety, add canned corn to it.

• pieces of 15 baked baskets;
• can of canned tuna;
• a can of canned corn;
• three hard-boiled eggs;
• two processed cheese;
• three tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• some greenery.

Preparation:

1. Three processed cheese on a fine grater, egg white on a coarse one, knead tuna with a fork, add corn and mix with mayonnaise.
2. We fill the tartlets with a mixture, sprinkle with yolk grated on a fine grater on top, decorate with herbs.

Tartlets with salmon (salmon) and cream cheese and cucumber (avocado)

The classic version of fish tartlets, suitable for any festive table.

• 15 pieces of shortcrust pastry tartlets;
• take ripe avocado;
• 100-150 grams of soft cream cheese;
• a tablespoon of sour cream and a tablespoon of mayonnaise, so it will be softer and tastier;
• grams of 150-200 lightly salted red fish, preferably salmon;
• greens for decoration.

Preparation:

Remove the pit from the avocado and spoon the pulp directly into the food processor. Add the most of the fish cut into pieces, (we leave the smaller one for decorating the tartlets) sour cream and mayonnaise, cheese and chop into dust.

We fill the tartlets with the resulting mass using a pastry bag. No bag - it doesn't matter, we cut off a small corner of the plastic bag and use it as a pastry bag!

Decorate the filled baskets with pieces of leftover fish and finely chopped herbs.

Bon Appetit!

The recipe is simple, but tasty and satisfying!

• ham grams 200;
• half a glass of mayonnaise;
• a couple of small, ripe, but strong tomatoes;
• a couple of fresh cucumbers;
• container of small Korean carrots;
• about twenty tartlets.

Preparation:

1. Cut the ham into thin strips, tomatoes and cucumbers into small cubes, combine with Korean carrots and mayonnaise.
2. We put in baskets and immediately serve. Decorate with olive on top.

Bon Appetit!

Of course, children love sweets, so the best filling for children's tartlets will be various creams, sweet whipped cream, pieces of fruit, marmalade, nut and chocolate chips, berries.

I propose a simple recipe with homemade cold cream, and everyone can decorate it according to their imagination.

Products:

• tartlets 20 pieces;
• can of condensed milk;
• a glass of cream, better homemade, fresh separation;
• two tablespoons of gelatin;
• nut and chocolate chips, strawberry or kiwi slices for decoration.

Cooking process:

1. Soak the gelatin in half a glass of cold water for a couple of hours. We combine it with condensed milk and cream - cold.
2. Let stand in a cool place for an hour and fill the tartlets. Decorate and refrigerate. In an hour, you can and on the table!

Bon Appetit!

Simple and delicious tartlets with filling on the festive table - Video recipes

Tartlets are suitable for serving any dish in them - salad, pate, vegetable appetizer.

For those who fast or do not eat food of animal origin, sweet desserts, ice cream and creams, fruit salads. The French, for example, even serve Julienne soup in them, so why are we worse than the French?

Filled tartlets are such a dish in which every housewife can show her imagination and skill, especially for some holiday!

Dare, create and surprise the guests at your table, dear hostesses!