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Tartlets with mushrooms and cheese are a delicious dish that harmoniously combines mushroom flavors and the piquancy of cheese. At the same time, they look very impressive and are served on holiday tables. In addition, they are so functional that they go perfectly with both wines and spirits - they are served at almost any buffet table.
At the same time, such tartlets are extremely easy to prepare, do not require culinary skills from the housewife, are prepared quickly, and the result is so good that the tartlets prepared according to the recipes below will satisfy the requirements of a gourmet gourmet.
Cheese for tartlets is cooled before preparing the dish - this will make it easier to obtain homogeneous, non-sticky particles when grating.
Typically, such tartlets are baked for several minutes in the oven, but if such a kitchen attribute is not available, you can mix grated cheese with mayonnaise or sour cream and cover the filling surface of the tartlets with the mixture. These options also turn out delicious.
Tartlets with goat cheese and mushrooms
These tartlets are very tasty and unique thanks to the subtle aftertaste and aroma of goat cheese.
Ingredients:
- Tartlets – 18 pcs.
- Olive oil – 30 ml.
- Champignons – 500 gr.
- Cloves – 2 pcs.
- Fresh rosemary, chopped – 2 teaspoons
- Full-fat sour cream – 175 gr.
- Salt – 1/4 teaspoon
- Pepper - to taste
- Goat cheese – 150 gr.
Preparation:
Pour olive oil into a saucepan and fry chopped champignons in it, add sour cream, add spices (cloves) and cook in an oven preheated to 180°C for 10 minutes.
Prepared mushrooms are laid out on tartlets, sprinkled with garlic and rosemary, cheese is placed on top and baked for another 10 minutes.
Filling for tartlets for a festive table with tuna
Simple, but festive, satisfying and budget-friendly! All products are cheap and can be found in every housewife’s home.
Ingredient list:
- chicken eggs – 5 pcs.;
- green olives – 10 pcs.;
- canned tuna – 1 b.;
- mayonnaise – 4 tbsp;
- dill – 6-8 sprigs;
- long-fruited cucumber – 1 pc.;
- tartlets – 1 pack.
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Boil the eggs “hard-boiled” for about a quarter of an hour. Cool, mash with a fork.
- Mash the tuna right in the jar and add it to the egg mixture.
- Finely chop the dill, add to the mixture, season with mayonnaise, stir until all layers are evenly mixed.
- Fill the tartlets.
- Cut olives and cucumber into thin rings and circles, respectively. And decorate each snack “basket” based on your own imagination.
Just a couple of “budget” ingredients, taken as a basis, can “work wonders” in cooking!
Tartlets with lamellar mushrooms and cheese
Chanterelles are most often used when preparing such tartlets, but they can be replaced with honey mushrooms and russula - the dish will turn out tasty, piquant and stimulating the appetite.
Ingredients:
- Butter - 2 tablespoons
- Tartlets – 8 pcs.
- White and light green parts of leeks - 2 pcs.
- Chanterelles – 300 gr.
- Sour cream – 200 gr.
- Chicken eggs – 4 pcs.
- Garlic – 2 teaspoons
- Fresh rosemary – 2 teaspoons
- Cheddar – 150 gr.
- Parmesan – 30 gr.
- Freshly ground white pepper - to taste
- Salt is optional.
Preparation:
The garlic is chopped.
Cheddar is grated.
Cut the leek into rings and bring to transparency with ½ melted butter over low heat, add the garlic and cook for another minute.
In another frying pan, melt the remaining butter and fry the mushrooms until they release their moisture.
The released mushroom moisture is removed, leaving only a couple of spoons, and brought to softness.
In a tall glass, beat sour cream, garlic, rosemary, eggs, seasoning with pepper.
Place grated cheese on the bottom of the tartlets, mushrooms on top, leeks on top, add sour cream whipped with eggs, sprinkle with grated Parmesan and bake for 10 minutes. in the oven at 180°C.
When serving, you can garnish with rosemary sprigs.
Decoration and presentation
Some chefs have achieved perfection in decorating appetizers. By making patterns from fresh vegetables, herbs, pomegranate seeds and other ingredients, chefs create real works of art. But even at home you can perfectly decorate any dish.
I recommend trying to cut flowers from vegetables. Small red radishes and cherry tomatoes make beautiful tulips. Canned olives can be cut into rings and a kernel of canned corn placed inside. In general, by combining ingredients in contrasting colors, you will make your snack original and beautiful.
But remember that you need to decorate this dish after it is taken out of the oven, otherwise the decorations will lose their appearance. If you are setting the table according to all the rules of etiquette, then first serve an aperitif, that is, appetizers, and the appropriate wine.
Tartlets with wild garlic, mushrooms and blue cheese
These tartlets are very savory; they can be used both as an appetizer for strong drinks and as appetizers.
Ingredients:
- Ready shortbread dough – 1 sheet
- Wild garlic leaves – 35 gr.
- Olive oil – 1 tablespoon
- Mushrooms – 100 gr.
- Blue cheese – 40 gr.
- Eggs – 1 pc.
- Milk – 50 ml.
Preparation:
Bake tartlets from the prepared shortcrust pastry using molding baskets (approximately 10-15 minutes in an oven preheated to 200°C).
Wash wild garlic leaves and cut into strips. Mushrooms are cut into small cubes.
Prepared mushrooms and garlic are fried in olive oil in a saucepan until the mushrooms are soft.
The cheese is divided into small pieces.
The prepared mushrooms are placed in tartlets and filled with egg beaten with milk.
The tartlets are placed in an oven preheated to 200°C and baked until the milk-egg mixture thickens.
Remove from oven and sprinkle with cheese.
The dish is ready.
Baskets for mushroom tartlets
Compound:
- margarine – 0.2 kg;
- milk – 100 ml;
- wheat flour – 0.45 kg;
- chicken egg – 2 pcs.;
- sugar – 5-10 g;
- salt - a large pinch.
Cooking method:
- Chop the margarine into small pieces and place in a blender bowl.
- Break the eggs, separating the yolks from the whites. In this case, whites are not required; add the yolks to the margarine.
- Pour milk into the yolks and margarine, add sugar and salt.
- Turn on the blender and turn the contents of its bowl into a homogeneous mass.
- Transfer the mixture to a bowl.
- Sift the flour. Add it to the liquid mixture in parts and stir. You can stir with a spatula or a mixer with special attachments for dough. You can knead with your hands only at the final stage, trying to minimize contact of the dough with warm palms.
- Roll the finished dough into a ball, place it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
- Roll out the dough and cut circles out of it using a glass or other container. Place the layers of dough into muffin cups, line the bottom and edges of the cups, and cut off any excess dough. Place the beans in the center so that the bottom of the baskets does not rise during baking.
- Preheat the oven to 220 degrees, place the molds with dough in it, bake the baskets for 10-15 minutes.
When the baskets have cooled, they are removed from the molds and used for their intended purpose. From the amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe you will get 12 baskets.
Tartlets with mushrooms, cheese and chicken
A delicious, quick-to-cook version of snack tartlets.
Ingredients:
- Chicken fillet – 200 gr.
- Onions – 100 gr.
- Mayonnaise – 1 ½ tablespoons
- Vegetable oil – 50 ml.
- Ground black pepper – 1 pinch
- Cream 20% - 150 ml.
- Hard cheese – 100 gr.
- Sand tartlets – 12 pcs.
- Champignons – 150 gr.
Preparation:
The chicken fillet is finely chopped, the mushrooms are chopped, the onion is finely chopped.
Fillet, mushrooms, onions are combined and fried over medium heat for 10 minutes. - until the liquid evaporates. Pour in the cream and simmer over low heat until the liquid evaporates. Pepper, salt and season with mayonnaise to taste.
Sprinkle with grated cheese and bake in the oven until the cheese is melted (about 5 minutes)
If you like spiciness in your dishes, add a little more garlic to the tartlet recipe.
Useful tips
- To save time, you can prepare this snack in the evening and put it in the refrigerator overnight. And before serving, put it in the oven. After baking, sprinkle the appetizer with onions.
- Prepare all ingredients in advance . Boil and peel the eggs, fry the mushrooms, grate the cheese. Remove all unnecessary items from the table. Now it will be easy and convenient for you to assemble this snack.
- To get rid of excess moisture and fat, fried mushrooms can be placed on paper napkins.
- If you don't use mayonnaise, replace it with heavy cream.
Tartlets with porcini mushrooms and cheese
The dish prepared according to this recipe is tasty and has a rich mushroom aroma.
Ingredients:
- Butter – 2 tablespoons
- Fresh porcini mushrooms – 200 gr.
- Green onions – 5 pcs.
- Garlic – 1 clove
- Heavy cream – 150 gr.
- Grated Parmesan – ½ cup
- Ready sheet dough – 300 gr.
Preparation:
Chop the onions and mushrooms and fry in melted butter over medium heat. When the mushrooms become soft, add chopped garlic, cream, grated cheese and bring to readiness, allowing the liquid to evaporate.
The sheet dough is cut into small squares. Place prepared mushrooms and cheese in the middle, raise the corners to form a basket and bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 10 minutes.
When serving, you can garnish with chopped green onions.
How to make tartlets with sweet fillings
For such desserts it is better to use sand bases. If you prepare the tartlets yourself, you can replace a small part of the cocoa flour - then they will turn out chocolate.
The number of baskets may vary depending on their size.
Tartlets with mascarpone and white chocolate cream
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Ingredients
- 200 g cream with a fat content of 33–36%;
- 200 g white chocolate;
- 500 g mascarpone cheese;
- 10–15 wide tartlets;
- any berries, powdered sugar - for decoration.
Preparation
Heat the cream, but do not bring it to a boil. Dissolve chocolate pieces in cream until smooth. Add mascarpone and mix thoroughly.
Spread the cream among the tartlets and refrigerate for 2-3 hours. Decorate the finished dessert with berries and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Tartlets with chocolate ganache
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Ingredients
- 140 g dark chocolate;
- 140 g cream with a fat content of 33–36%;
- 40 g butter;
- 6-8 medium tartlets.
Preparation
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or microwave, stirring occasionally. Heat the cream without bringing it to a boil. ¹⁄₃ pour them into the chocolate and mix thoroughly.
Add the remaining cream in the same parts. When the mass becomes completely homogeneous, add softened butter and mix thoroughly again.
Pour the hot ganache into the tartlets. Leave for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator.
Tartlets with berry and curd mousse
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Ingredients
- 460 ml berry juice;
- 10 g granulated gelatin;
- 400 g soft cottage cheese;
- 100 g powdered sugar;
- 150 g cream 35% fat;
- 8–10 wide tartlets;
- any berries and nuts, coconut flakes - for decoration.
Preparation
Pour 400 ml of juice into a saucepan and simmer until the volume of liquid is reduced to 100–150 ml. Remove from stove.
Pour the remaining juice over the gelatin and leave to swell. Then transfer it to a saucepan with hot juice and stir until smooth.
Combine cottage cheese and powdered sugar. Beat the cream with a mixer until fluffy. Place them in the cottage cheese, add the gelatin mass and mix gently. Distribute the mousse among the tartlets and refrigerate for 1-2 hours. Decorate the dessert with berries, nuts, and coconut flakes.
Tartlets with lemon curd
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Ingredients
- 80 ml lemon juice;
- 2 eggs;
- 1 egg yolk;
- 100 g sugar;
- 2 tablespoons butter;
- 1 tablespoon cream;
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract;
- a pinch of salt;
- 15–20 small tartlets.
Preparation
Heat the lemon juice, but do not bring to a boil. Beat the eggs and yolk in a separate container. Continuing to beat, gradually add sugar and lemon juice.
Pour the mixture into a saucepan and place over medium heat. Stirring constantly, bring the mixture until thickened. Remove from heat, add butter cubes and stir until smooth.
Then add the cream, vanilla extract and salt. Cover the surface of the curd with film and cool. Then fill the baskets with this filling.
Tartlets with coconut cream
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Ingredients
- 100 g coconut flakes;
- 1 tablespoon flour;
- ½ teaspoon baking powder;
- 60–70 g sugar;
- 60 ml milk;
- 1 egg;
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract;
- 2 tablespoons butter;
- a pinch of salt;
- 8-10 medium tartlets.
Tartlets with mushrooms and almond cheese
Such a tasty and original dish will be enjoyed not only by those who adhere to vegetarianism, but also by demanding gourmets.
Ingredients:
- Tartlets – 8 pcs.
- Almond cheese – 150 gr.
- Mushrooms – 250 gr.
- Young beets – 100 gr.
- Young carrots – 100 gr.
- Sweet onion – 1 pc.
- Olive oil – 60 ml.
- Pepper, salt - according to preference
Preparation:
Beets and carrots are grated on a fine grater.
Finely chop the onion and fry in half the olive oil until golden brown. Pour in the remaining oil, add randomly chopped mushrooms and cook the mushrooms over medium heat until cooked.
Add cheese to the mushrooms and mix well.
Fill tartlets with the mixture, lay beets and carrots on top and place in an oven preheated to 160°C for 10 minutes.
The dish is ready.
The options for preparing tartlets with mushrooms and cheese are varied. This diversity is due to the wide compatibility of the taste of the original products with the taste of a large number of products. For example, if the recipe includes chicken meat, it can be replaced with fish, bacon, it all depends on the imagination of the housewife - in the end it will still turn out delicious.
Other cooking options
Making original tartlets with mushrooms is not at all difficult and interesting. You can diversify the filling and enjoy tartlets with chicken and mushrooms. For a cold appetizer, you can prepare juicy quick-cooking marinated champignons at home in advance. Porcini and wild mushrooms can be used in different ways.
Try - pasta with mushrooms in creamy sauce - with a rich creamy taste and aroma. Mushrooms also go well with simple side dishes and improve their taste. In my opinion, few would refuse fried champignons with onions to go with soft and tender mashed potatoes.
Share your favorite mushroom tartlet appetizer recipes. I look forward to your feedback and advice. Bon appetit!
