Cod liver is a tasty and healthy product, but too fat to eat in pure form. One of the best ways to use this dish is to include it in the composition of tartlets. Gentle and juicy filling blends well with the taste of puff pastry or shortbread dough; the snack with it is nourishing and has unique organoleptic qualities. Cod liver tartlets can be prepared for a family dinner or breakfast, as well as for a festive table.
Cooking Features
The process of cooking tartlets with cod liver is not complicated. The task is on the shoulder even for an inexperienced cook, if he knows and takes into account a few moments.
- For the preparation of snacks filled with cod liver, baskets made of puff pastry or shortcrust are most suitable. If in a short pastry add a little cheese chips, tartlets will become even more delicious.
- If you don’t have time to make your own cod liver tartlet baskets, you can buy them in the store. Preference is better to give products of standard size, preferably with not quite thin walls.
- The quality of the main ingredient will certainly affect the taste of the finished snack. On sale can be found canned food in which cod liver is present as one of the main ingredients, but it is not the only one in them. It would be more correct to call these products cod liver pate. Such canned food is easier to use for cooking, unless you need to chop the liver into slices, but it will have less pleasant taste and less benefit from its use.
- For bodybuilders, you need to understand that cod liver is a healthy, but high-calorie product. In combination with pastry, cheese, eggs and other similar ingredients, it does not get dietary.
- There should not be too liquid or dry filling for tartlets. Juice it can add vegetables, mayonnaise or sour cream, oil from a can of cod liver. You need to add them in moderate quantities so that the filling does not soak the dough. It is advisable to serve tartlets with cod liver to the table immediately after their preparation, otherwise the risk that the baskets are sodden will still remain.
Cod liver goes well with fresh and pickled cucumbers, many other vegetables, squid and other seafood, eggs, cheese. There are many variants of filling for tartlets with this product, so almost everyone will be able to choose an option to taste.
Shortcrust dough baskets for cod liver tartlets
Composition:
- butter - 100 g;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- soda, quenched with vinegar - 3 g;
- wheat flour - 0, 5 kg;
- salt - a large shchipot;
- vegetable oil - how much is required for lubrication molds.
Method of preparation:
- Butter, taken from the refrigerator, chop with a knife into small pieces.
- Add sour cream, stir, kneading butter with a spoon.
- Add salt and vinegar-quenched soda, stir again.
- Sift flour. Gradually add it to the butter and sour cream mass and stir, prepare the dough. At the first stage you need to stir with a spoon, at last - with your hands. When preparing shortbread dough, it is recommended to minimize its contact with warm palms.
- Roll the dough into a ball, wrap with cling film and put in the fridge for an hour.
- Roll out the dough. With a glass or other container, cut circles from it into dough molds.
- Grease the molds. Put the dough in them, tightly pressed to the edges. Pierce the dough on the bottom with a fork.
- Heat the oven to 200 degrees, place the dough into it. Bake baskets for 10-15 minutes, trying not to overdry them.
- Remove the molds from the oven. When they have cooled down a little, remove the baskets from the dough from the baskets and allow them to cool to room temperature.
From a specified amount of ingredients, 10-12 baskets are obtained. They are suitable for any kind of toppings, except sweet.
Tartlets with cod liver, potatoes, peas and pickles
Composition:
- cod liver - 0, 25 kg;
- canned green peas - 80 g;
- pickled or pickled cucumbers - 150 g;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- potatoes - 0, 2 kg;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- tartlets - 18-20 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- Spread cod liver out of a jar in a bowl, mash with a fork.
- Cut pickled cucumbers into small cubes. The smaller their pieces, the better. Put in a container with cod liver.
- Eggs boil hard boiled. Cool them by placing them under a stream of cold water. Take the shells off them.
- Crush the eggs on a grater, pour into a bowl with cod liver and cucumbers.
- Wash potatoes, cook in uniform. Wait for it to cool, clean.
- Grate the potatoes and add to the other ingredients.
- Salt and pepper to taste. Pouring them oil from the jar, where there was a cod liver, and stirring, you get a creamy mass.
- Spread the cooked mixture on tartlets. Put peas along the contour of the baskets.
This recipe for cod liver tartlets is considered a classic.
Tartlets with cod liver, fresh cucumber and cheese
Composition:
- tartlets - 12-15 pcs .;
- cod liver - 0, 25 kg;
- fresh cucumbers - 0, 2 kg;
- semi-hard cheese - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- Cod liver, laid out of the jar in a bowl, mash well with a fork.
- Chop grated cheese with small or medium holes, send to canned fish.
- Wash cucumbers, dry with a napkin. Cut off the tips of the fruit. Using peelers, peel them off.
- Cut the juicy pulp into small cubes, send to other ingredients.
- Stir the contents of the bowl. Thanks to the cucumbers, the filling will be juicy without adding the sauce.
- Arrange the filling in baskets, transfer them to a platter.
You can decorate tartlets made according to the above recipe with sprigs of fresh parsley and dill.
Cod liver tartlets and eggs
Composition:
- tartlets - 15-18 pcs .;
- cod liver - 0, 25 kg;
- chicken egg - 6 pcs .;
- green onions - 50 g;
- mayonnaise - 20-40 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Place the cod liver in a container in which you mix the filling. Mash it with a fork.
- Cool hard-boiled eggs under cold running water, peel, chop, and grate. Put to cod liver.
- Wash green onions, let it dry. Finely cut with a knife.
- Leave some onions for tartlets, transfer the rest to cod liver and eggs.
- Add 1-2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, mix thoroughly.
- Fill tartlets with the resulting mass, sprinkle with peeled onions.
Despite the simple composition and ease of preparation, the tartlets for this recipe are tasty and attractive.
Puff pastry tartlets with cod liver and red fish
Composition:
- yeast-free puff pastry - 0, 4 kg;
- salted red fish (fillet) - 100 g;
- cod liver - 100 g;
- canned corn - 100 g;
- semi-hard cheese - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 20 ml;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
Method of preparation:
- Defrost the dough. Sprinkle flour on the working surface of the table, lay out the dough on it and slightly roll it out or, better yet, stretch it with your hands.
- Find two glasses of different diameters. With a larger glass, cut circles out of dough. Squeeze out the middle of the circles with a glass of a smaller diameter, getting rings.
- Divide the egg into white and yolk, whisk them separately. You can add to them a teaspoon of water.
- Lubricate the circles of dough with proteins, spread rings on them. Lubricate the rings with yolk.
- Heat oven to 200 degrees. Put dough products on a baking tray with a parchment and send it to the oven. After 15 minutes, the bases for tartlets will be ready.
- Remove cod liver from a jar, cut into pieces slightly larger than a pea.
- Cut the same-sized pieces of cheese and red fish fillets, send them to a cod liver container.
- Add corn, mayonnaise and a teaspoon of oil from a can of cod liver.
- Stir.
- Spread the filling over the puff pasture.
Decorate the tartlets with a sprig of parsley or dill and serve to the table. This snack option is festive.
Cod liver tartlets and rice
Composition:
- tartlets - 10-12 pieces;
- rice - 120 g;
- cod liver - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- fresh cucumber - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 20 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Rice rinse well and boil in salted water.
- Cool hard-boiled eggs in cold water, finely chop with a knife.
- Cod liver mash with a fork.
- Peel the cucumber, cut it into small cubes.
- Combine the ingredients, add mayonnaise and a little oil from a tin can, mix.
Having spread the filling in baskets, they can be immediately served on the table. According to this recipe, tartlets are especially tasty.
Tartlets with cod liver and olives
Composition:
- tartlets - 8-10 pcs .;
- cod liver - 0, 25 kg;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- mayonnaise - 20 ml;
- pitted olives - 8-10 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- Rub boiled eggs and mix with mayonnaise and cod liver.
- Fill the baskets with the resulting mass. Place the olive in the center of each basket.
Eggs can not be mixed with cod liver, but put them in layers: put canned fish on the bottom and eggs mixed with mayonnaise on them. On their background, olives will look even more interesting.
Cod liver tartlets are a tasty and satisfying treat. Considering the use of the main ingredient and the ease of preparing a snack, it can be made not only for the holiday table, but also on weekdays.
