Rarely what kind of holiday table goes without tartlets - small baskets of dough, filled with salad or other stuffing. This snack is convenient to take in hand and eat, for its use do not even need the cutlery. Tartlets with cottage cheese cheese look elegant. This product gives the food tenderness and elegance. It is equally well combined with vegetables and fruits, meat and seafood, which allows you to come up with new and new versions of dishes with it. Tartlets with curd cheese are a treat for every taste, indispensable at the buffet table.
Cooking Features
Curd cheese on store shelves is presented in an assortment, which allows you to choose between expensive and budget options. Making tartlets with this product of any price category looks the same, the result is also almost identical. If you know the basic principles of creating tartlets with cottage cheese at home, you can make an exquisite snack without spending a lot of manpower and money.
- Tartlets from different types of dough are suitable for filling with curd cheese: waffle, puff, sandy. The size can also be different. Small baskets are chosen if paired with cottage cheese are such expensive products as red caviar, salmon, avocado. For salads, which include vegetables, canned food, cheap seafood, it is advisable to choose baskets with a diameter of 5-6 cm, they are considered standard.
- If you want to save money, but not time, you can bake the baskets yourself. It takes about 1, 5 hours, if you include at this time 30-45 minutes required for cooling the dough. As the dough cools, the finished baskets cool down, you will have the opportunity to prepare the filling or other snacks for the festive table. An experienced housewife knead the dough in 15 minutes, the same amount will be spent on its rolling, and the same amount - on baking. Active cooking time will be only half an hour.
- Cottage cheese filling often resembles a cream by its consistency. To make the appetizer look more beautiful, the filling in the baskets does not need to be laid out with a spoon. It would be more reasonable to drop it using a culinary bag or even a plastic bag, cutting off a corner from it.
- Curd cream usually has a not too dry consistency. If it is spread out on tartlets long before the celebration, then it can soak the dough from which the baskets are made. The risk increases if the composition of the filling includes juicy vegetables, fruits. To avoid trouble, it is advisable to fill the baskets with cottage cheese cheese stuffing shortly before serving.
One of the most popular snacks in our country is tartlets, which include avocado, caviar, red fish, tomatoes and some other vegetables along with curd cheese. From the sweet options you should pay attention to the baskets with cheese and pear.
Tartlets with curd cheese
Composition:
- wheat flour - 0, 25-0, 3 kg;
- sugar (only for dessert tartlets) - 20-40 g;
- salt - a large shchipot;
- sour cream - 60 ml;
- butter - 100 g;
- vegetable oil (for lubrication of molds) - how much will go.
Method of preparation:
- Sift flour. Flush half a cup of flour.
- In a bowl of flour, rub the oil.
- Stir the products with your hands, as if tweaking them. As a result, you get a mass that resembles a baby.
- Add sour cream, salt, sugar to it, knead the dough. If it crumbles, add flour and knead until it becomes elastic.
- Wrap the dough with cling film and store for 30-60 minutes in the refrigerator.
- Divide the dough into 6-9 pieces.
- Place one piece of dough in the cupcake. Spread it across the bottom and sides of the mold with your fingers. Pierce the bottom with a fork, add a spoonful of peas.
- Similarly, lay the remaining dough in the molds, forming baskets.
- Put the tins with the dough in the oven heated to 200-220 degrees.
- Bake tartlets for 15 minutes.
- When the molds have cooled down a little, remove the baskets from them and leave to cool completely.
According to this recipe you can make baskets for sweet and snack tartlets with curd cheese.
Tartlets with curd cheese and pears
Composition:
- tartlets of standard size - 10-12 pcs .;
- pears - 0, 3 kg;
- curd cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- sour cream or mayonnaise - 20 ml;
- honey (optional) - to taste;
- lemon juice (optional) - 5 ml;
- water - 20 ml;
- cinnamon - for decoration.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and dry pears. Cut out the seeds, remove the flesh from the skin, cut into slices.
- Put pear slices in a mold, pour some water into it. You can add lemon juice and honey melted to a liquid state.
- Place the form in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake pears until they are soft.
- Baked pears, when they have cooled slightly, put them in the bowl of the blender. Add to them cottage cheese and sour cream. To make the dish more savory taste, sour cream can be replaced with mayonnaise.
- Turn on the blender and turn the contents of its bowl into a homogeneous mass.
- Put the pear-curd cream in a pastry bag, fill with tartlets.
It remains to put tartlets on a dish, sprinkle with cinnamon and serve. If you want to get a sweeter dish, sprinkle it is not only cinnamon, but also powdered sugar.
Tartlets with curd cheese, avocado and red caviar
Composition:
- small tartlets - 20-25 pcs .;
- avocados - 0, 2 kg;
- curd cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- red caviar - 90-110 g;
- lettuce leaves - 2-3 pcs .;
- lemon or lime juice - 5 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Avocado cut in half, remove the bone.
- With a spoon, remove the pulp from the avocado halves and place it in the blender bowl.
- Avocado pulp pour lemon juice. Grind with a blender to a state of mashed potatoes.
- Add curd cheese, whisk it with avocado pulp.
- Place the resulting cream mass in a culinary bag and fill the tartlets with cream with it, after having first put a piece of lettuce in them.
- Spread red caviar on top.
Place the tartlets on beautiful plates and serve them to the table. This delicious snack will surely please your guests.
Tartlets with curd cheese, fresh cucumber and red fish
Composition:
- tartlets (small) - 10-12 pieces;
- cucumber - 80 g;
- red fish (fillet) - 70 g;
- curd cheese - 150 g;
- fresh greens - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Finely chop the greens, mix with the curd cheese. You can whip this mass in a blender.
- Fill tartlets with cheese.
- Slice the red fish into small pieces, put on the curd filling on one side.
- Wash cucumber, dry with a napkin. Cut off his tips.
- Cut the fruit lengthwise into 4 pieces, cut into slices about 3-4 mm thick. Two slices of cheese paste on the side of each tartlet, which is free of salmon.
Tartlets prepared according to this recipe will be tastier if they are put into the fridge for 20-30 minutes before serving.
Tartlets with curd cheese, pickled cucumber and bell pepper
Composition:
- medium-sized tartlets - 10-12 pcs .;
- Bulgarian pepper - 150 g;
- pickled cucumbers - 150 g;
- curd cheese - 0, 25 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Curd cheese put in a bowl, mash it with a fork.
- Pepper seeds are removed by removing the stalk. Cut half of pepper into small cubes, cut remaining pepper into quarters of rings.
- Cut half of the cucumbers into small circles, cut the remaining cucumbers as small as possible.
- Mix cheese with finely chopped peppers and cucumbers, arrange in baskets.
- Decorate tartlets with larger pieces of vegetables.
Pickled cucumbers can be replaced by olives or olives. The taste of the snack will change, but it will not get worse, and outwardly it will become even more attractive.
Tartlets with curd cheese and cherry tomatoes
Composition:
- tartlets - 20 pcs .;
- cherry tomatoes - 10 pcs .;
- curd cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- hard cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- sour cream or mayonnaise - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Chop hard cheese grated, combine with soft cheese.
- Add finely chopped dill and garlic passed through a press to the cheese mixture.
- Put mayonnaise to the ground products, stir.
- Spread the cheese mass on tartlets.
- Wash tomatoes, dry with a napkin, cut into halves.
- Spread tomato halves on tartlets.
Tartlets made according to this recipe look simple, but bright and stylish, have a harmonious and moderately savory taste. Part of the cheese in the composition of the filling can be replaced with hard-boiled eggs and chopped on the grater. Then the snack will cost a little cheaper, but it will be no less tasty and satisfying.
Tartlets with curd cheese can be dessert and snack bars, the second option is more popular. Such cheeses are successfully combined with fish and seafood, vegetables, fruits, thanks to which the recipes for tartlets with this product are varied.
