More and more often at the buffet receptions you can see on the tables such kind of snacks like tartlets with different fillings. This European dish is quite firmly established in our lives, and is becoming increasingly popular. Preparing tartlets at home is not difficult, just get the form, knead the dough and bake them in the oven.
As a filler, almost all foods are at your discretion. Here you can really turn on your imagination, and cook completely new dishes, not even stick to exactly this or that recipe. In principle, this approach is more realistic for the culinary professionals with experience, but if you try to reproduce your combinations, then as a result you will definitely get a tasty and original snack.
The most common filling for tartlets today is chicken. Chicken meat generally enjoys its popularity due to the high content of essential for the body of vitamins and trace elements and a low amount of calories. Let's try to make chicken tartlets using several of the most popular recipes.
Recipe 1: Chicken Tartlets
Ingredients Required:
for the test:
- flour - 1.5 cups;
- butter - 200 g;
- cheese - 100 g;
- chicken yolks - 3 pcs .;
- salt.
for the filling:
- boiled chicken meat - 250 g;
- tomatoes - 6 pcs .;
- egg - 4 pcs .;
- chopped dill - 1. tsp;
- salt and pepper ground.
Preparation:
Prepare the dough for tartlets. We need butter at room temperature, so make sure to put it in advance from the refrigerator. Grate cheese and mix it with sifted flour and salt. Cut the butter into cubes, put it on the flour mixture and start chopping with a knife, thereby interrupting the pieces of butter in the flour. Then make a bow and dip 3 yolks into it. Knead the dough. If you got a rather tight dough, you can add sour cream to it. Roll out the dough as thick as a finger and cut out a ringlet with a glass. We mold the tartlets with oil first, then sprinkle with flour and carefully place the circles of dough in them, carefully forming the sides. The dough is already distributed in molds, which means that it is time to prepare the filling.
Cut boiled chicken meat into cubes. Exactly the same cubes chop the tomato and send them to the meat. Here also add the chopped dill, salt and pepper. Separate the yolks from proteins and also add them to the filling. Mix all the contents and fill the prepared tartlets to a height of 3/4 form.
Preheat oven to 170C. We put the molds on a baking sheet and send them to bake. As soon as you notice that the edges of the tartlets begin to brown, reduce the temperature in the oven to 140C and continue baking the tartlets until ready.
Recipe 2: Chicken Tartlets
The original recipe for tartlets with chicken salad - a great and satisfying snack.
Ingredients Required:
for tartlets:
- medium sized potatoes - 3 pcs .;
- flour - 1.5 cups;
- margarine - 150g;
- egg - 1 pc .;
- soda - 0.5 tsp;
- Sesame seeds - 1 tsp.
- vegetable oil.
for salad:
- canned pineapples - 400 g;
- Chicken fillet - 300 g;
- garlic cloves - 2 pcs .;
- cheese - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs .;
- mayonnaise,
- dill and salt.
Preparation:
Get to tartlets. First boil the potatoes. By the way, you can immediately put another pan on the stove and boil chicken fillet in it for salad.
So back to the tartlets. Peel the boiled potatoes, let them cool down a little, and rub it on a grater. Put the margarine in the pan and melt it on the stove. Let it cool to room temperature. While the margarine is cool, whisk the egg with a whisk. Apple vinegar quench 0.5 tsp. soda and add it to the egg. Now we mix all the ingredients - grated potatoes, flour, egg with soda and salt. Add sesame seeds and knead plastic dough.
Divide the dough into 12 even parts. We mold the tartlets with butter, sprinkle with flour and put a ball of dough into each of them. Fingers knead it with a mold, forming tartlets. We will pierce the dough with a fork or a toothpick in several places and send them to the baking tray in the oven to bake. We had already heated the oven 180 * C in the oven and after 25 minutes we selected roasted tartlets.
Now it's time to do a salad. Boiled chicken fillet cut into cubes. Exactly the same cubes, we cut canned pineapples. Grind boiled eggs and mix all the ingredients. Season with salt to taste. Grate cheese and garlic, add to salad and season with mayonnaise. Put the salad on tartlets and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Recipe 3: Chicken Tartlets with Mushrooms
For making dough for tartlets, you can use the previous recipe. And we will prepare the ingredients for the filling. So, for 40 pieces of tartlets you will need:
- chicken fillet - 1 piece;
- Fresh mushrooms - 400 g;
- carrot - 1 pc .;
- Onions - 1 pc .;
- cheese - 300g;
- mayonnaise for refueling.
Preparation:
Boil chicken fillet in a pan and put it on a wire rack to cool. During this time, clean the carrots and onions. Chop the onion into cubes, and grate the carrot. Put a griddle on the stove, pour some oil into it and fry the carrot and onion. Put on a plate and let cool. Meanwhile, chop the mushrooms and fry them in butter for 5 minutes. At the end we will wash and mix.
Chilled chicken fillet cut into cubes and add to the mushrooms. Continue to cook for another 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally with a spatula. Let them cool and mix with onions and carrots. In the cooled mixture add 2 tbsp. mayonnaise and mix.
Put tartlets on a baking sheet, fill them with filling and sprinkle with grated cheese on top. Preheat oven to 180 degrees and send tartlets to bake for 5-10 minutes. Such tartlets are served hot. We decorate the top with dill and woo-ala.
A hearty and festive snack is already prepared by your hands.
Chicken Tartlets - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- Tartlets can be prepared in advance. They can be stored in the refrigerator for 2-3 days and will not lose their quality. Before serving, send them to a preheated oven for 3-5 minutes.
- The filling of tartlets can be any vegetable salads with the addition of chicken meat.
