Tartlets are a convenient type of snack, especially if it is served at the buffet table. They are baskets (most often of shortcrust pastry), filled with pies, salads, caviar and other products. If you are looking for the option of the most satisfying, appetizing-looking, but at the same time not too expensive food for a buffet, then you should pay attention to tartlets with crab sticks, cheese and egg. They like almost everyone, easy to prepare and attractively look. Baskets with crab salad with cheese will be appropriate for both everyday and festive table.
Cooking Features
Even an inexperienced housewife can make delicious tartlets stuffed with crab sticks, cheese and eggs if she knows a few subtleties.
- For filling with salad, usually not too small baskets are chosen. Mini tartlets are more suitable for delicacies, they are filled with soft cheese, caviar, salmon and similar ingredients.
- Ready baskets for salad can be found at almost any grocery store. However, if you bake them yourself, they will be more tasty and cheaper. Guests will certainly appreciate the culinary skill of the hostess, who made not only delicious tartlets, but also tartlets themselves.
- The filling for tartlets should not be too thin or too dry. To make it more juicy, they add sauces, vegetables or even fruits, some of which successfully shade the taste of surimi and cheese. However, too much sauce and vegetables can not be put, otherwise the dough will soften and tartlets will lose their shape, they may even fall apart in the hands of guests.
- When a salad is prepared for filling tartlets, the products for it are usually cut very finely or even rubbed. Products such as crab sticks or melted cheese will be easier to rub if you freeze them beforehand or at least cool them down.
- It is not worth filling tartlets with crab salad long before the start of the celebration, as it can soak baskets over a long period of time, even if it does not have too much sauce and juicy vegetables.
Tartlets with crab sticks, egg and cheese when serving to the table can not be decorated, as they look bright on their own. However, if you sprinkle them with fresh greens, put a sprig of parsley on top, or spread out corn grains nicely along their contour, they will become much more elegant and appetizing.
Cheese tartlets with crab salad with eggs and cheese
Composition:
- wheat flour - 150 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs. (including 1 piece for the test);
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- processed cheese - 100 g;
- butter - 100 g;
- refined vegetable oil - 20-30 ml;
- crab sticks - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 50 ml;
- green onions - 50 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Break one chicken egg into a clean bowl, add a large pinch of salt to it. Spread it.
- Hard cheese finely grate. Put the third part aside, add the rest to the egg, whisk the products with a whisk.
- Remove the oil from the refrigerator in advance so that it becomes soft by the time the snack is prepared.
- Put the softened butter on the cheese and the egg, beat with a mixer.
- Mix the resulting mass with pre-sifted flour and knead the dough. It should be smooth, lump-free, soft, but not sticky.
- Make a bun from the dough, wrap it with cling film and put it in the fridge for 30-60 minutes to make it a little tighter.
- Divide the dough into 8-10 pieces.
- Grease the molds. Put them in pieces of dough and distribute it on the bottom and walls.
- Pierce the bottom of the dough with a fork in several places.
- Heat oven to 200 degrees. Send in it forms with the text. Bake baskets for 15 minutes.
- Remove the molds from the oven, let the baskets cool slightly, remove the tartlets from the molds.
- Cut the crab sticks into small cubes.
- Largely grated melted cheese.
- Boil the remaining two eggs. Cool by placing under a stream of cold water. Peel, finely chop with a knife.
- Wash green onions, shake off water and place on a towel so that it dries quickly. Finely chop it.
- Combine chopped crab sticks, eggs, green onions and melted cheese. Add mayonnaise to them, mix.
- Spread the salad on tartlets, sprinkle them with the remaining hard cheese.
- Return the tartlets to the oven for a few minutes so that the cheese melts.
Tartlets prepared according to this recipe can be served both hot and cold - they will be equally tasty.
Tartlets with crab sticks, garlic, egg and cheese
Composition:
- tartlets - 8-10 pcs .;
- crab sticks - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- processed cheese - 120-140 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- fresh greens, salt, mayonnaise - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Chop frozen crab sticks on a grater with large holes.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. Place a saucepan with them under a stream of cold water so that they cool faster. Free them from the shell, rub it.
- Grind grated melted cheese.
- Cheese, surimi and eggs fold in a bowl.
- Finely chop the washed and dried greens. Add to the main ingredients.
- Skip garlic through a press, mix with 1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise.
- Fill the salad with mayonnaise-garlic sauce, spread on tartlets.
It remains to rearrange the baskets on the plate, decorate with fresh greens and serve.
Tartlets with surimi, pickled cucumbers, cheese and egg
Composition:
- tartlets - 20 pcs .;
- crab sticks - 0, 25 kg;
- chicken egg - 4-6 pcs .;
- hard or semi-hard cheese - 100 g;
- pickled cucumbers - 0, 2 kg;
- mayonnaise - 60-80 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Crab sticks cut into small pieces of cubic shape.
- Grind the pickled cucumbers in the same way.
- Cool boiled eggs cool under running cold water, peel. Cut into small cubes.
- Cheese rub with large chips.
- Combine chopped products, season with mayonnaise.
It remains to spread the salad on tartlets, and the appetizer can be served on the table. If you decorate it with sprigs of parsley or dill, it will become brighter and more elegant. Try replacing pickled cucumbers in fresh salad, and the dish will acquire a new taste, not so savory, but more fresh and tender.
Tartlets with a salad of crab sticks, cheese and eggs are made easy and inexpensive, but they are beautiful and tasty. You can make them both for a family dinner and for a festive meal. This appetizer is ideal for a buffet.
