Recently, such a form of a festive feast as a buffet table has become increasingly popular. Buffet table allows you to take a large number of guests, gives them the opportunity to move freely around the hall, communicate with each other. However, snacks for a buffet table are special, such as can be picked up and eaten without the use of cutlery, literally on weight. These snacks include tartlets - small baskets of wafer, sand or puff pastry, filled with various snacks. The basis today can be purchased in many stores, but the hostess will have to choose and prepare the filling for the tartlets herself.
Cooking Features
Tartlets can be filled with a variety of products: pieces of fish, meat, sausage, fruits and vegetables, salads, pates. The space for fantasy here opens up almost limitless. However, the cook when choosing and preparing the filling for baskets need to consider a few points.
- If you put too juicy products in the basket, they can soak up and begin to fall apart in the hands of the guests. Yes, and their appearance will lose appeal.
- In order to soak the dough from the sauce, which is part of the snack, or from the juice of the products included in it, tartlets should be filled immediately before serving to the table. If this is not possible, harvest them last, after the canapés, sliced and other snacks are ready.
- Try to make the tartlets look beautiful and appetizing, so that they are a decoration of your table. To do this, in particular, thinly sliced pieces of fish or meat can be rolled up and put so that they resemble rosettes. You can put slices of olives, cherry tomatoes, and greens on top of the salad. There are many options for decorating tartlets, you should independently choose or come up with a filling that fits your recipe.
As you can see, there are very few subtleties that limit your culinary creativity when preparing tartlets for filling, so you can think up the options for toppings yourself. However, there are many recipes created by experienced chefs who have already won the popularity of many housewives. They can be taken as a basis or left unchanged.
Stuffing for tartlets with curd cheese
Composition:
- curd cheese - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 0, 25 kg;
- fresh dill - 50 g;
- Cherry tomatoes - 20 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- Chop hard cheese on a fine grater.
- Finely chop the dill, which has been washed and dried with a napkin, with a knife.
- Mash cheese curd with a fork.
- Add dill to it, stir it.
- Combine the curd cheese with grated hard cheese, blend the curd with a blender.
- Wash tomatoes, dry, and cut with a sharp knife.
Fill tartlets with cheese mixture, garnish with cherry tomato halves. If you want to give the snack more savory taste, then as an additional ingredient, you can use garlic, passed through a press. For a specified number of ingredients it will be enough to take 2-3 cloves of garlic.
Tartlets with ham and cheese
Composition:
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- sour cream - 120 ml;
- ham - 0, 2 kg;
- potatoes - 150 g;
- hard cheese - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Break eggs into a bowl, whisk them. Add sour cream, continuing to beat. Get a homogeneous mass.
- Boil the potatoes, peel and cut into small cubes.
- Cut the ham into thin strips.
- Mix ham with potatoes and fill baskets with this mixture.
- Pour creamy egg sauce.
- Finely rub the cheese and sprinkle with the stuffing.
- Place the tartlets for 15 minutes in a preheated 180 degree oven.
Covered with cheese crust, these tartlets look appetizing without additional decorations. They turn out to be quite satisfying, so they will allow guests to be fed very quickly. You can give them a savory taste with pickled cucumbers. To do this, take 1-2 gherkins and cut them into small pieces, add to the sauce before pouring the stuffing.
Stuffing for salmon and avocado tartlets
Composition:
- fillet of salted salmon - 0, 2 kg;
- avocados - 0, 6 kg;
- soft cheese - 100 g;
- lemon juice - 100 ml;
- dill - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and clean the avocado. Place the pulp in a blender.
- Pour lemon juice into blender bowl. There, put the soft cheese.
- Beat the whole together until smooth.
- Fill tartlets with a creamy mass of avocado, cheese and lemon juice.
- Cut the salmon into thin slices, making sure that the fillets are completely boned.
- Fold each slice in half and place on top.
- Cut the dill and sprinkle tartlets on it.
If desired, you can also use green olives to decorate this snack, putting half the fish. In addition, olives will help make the taste of the dish richer and more interesting.
Canned tuna filling
Composition:
- tuna canned for salads - 1 can of 0, 25 l;
- canned sweet corn - 0, 3 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- mayonnaise - 40 ml;
- tomato paste - 40 ml;
- hard cheese - 0, 2 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Coarsely grate the cheese.
- Boil the eggs, cool and peel. Cut them into small cubes.
- Put the tuna from the can into the bowl, add the canned corn and eggs to it.
- Season with mayonnaise and mix well.
- Slice tomatoes into thin slices.
- Smear tartlets with tomato paste and spread tuna and corn salad over them.
- Place a slice of tomato on top. Sprinkle with cheese.
- Bake until cheese is melted.
There is a slightly different way to make this snack: cut tomatoes into cubes and mix with the rest of the ingredients, instead of putting the salad on top of them. The overall taste of tartlets does not change much from this, but they will look different - the red color of the tomatoes will not dominate, but the yellow color of the corn. So choose the option that will help decorate your table better.
Stuffing for tartlets with chicken and pineapple
Composition:
- boiled chicken fillet - 0, 2 kg;
- canned pineapples - 0, 2 kg;
- hard cheese - 70 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- walnut kernels - 30 g;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs .;
- mayonnaise - 50 ml;
- salt, black pepper powder - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Cut walnut kernels with a knife into very small pieces.
- Chop up cheese on a coarse grater, mix with nuts.
- Hard-boiled eggs cut into small cubes.
- Pineapples and chicken breast, boiled in salted water, cut in the same way as eggs.
- Crush the garlic, mix the mayonnaise with it.
- Mix chicken with mayonnaise, add pineapple and eggs to it, mix, salt to taste.
- Fill tartlets with salad, sprinkle them with a mixture of nuts and cheese.
Such tartlets look tasty and appetizing on their own, so they do not need additional decoration.
Cream cheese and sweet pepper stuffing
Composition:
- processed cheese - 140 g;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- ground paprika - 5 g;
- mayonnaise - 40 ml;
- Bulgarian pepper (different color) - 0, 4 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Peppers wash, cut the stalks of them, remove the seeds. Cut the flesh of the peppers into quarters of rings no more than half a centimeter wide.
- Rub the melted cheese curds, mix with mayonnaise, paprika and garlic crushed by hand. Mix well.
- Spread the cheese mixture on tartlets, top with pepper.
It will be easy to prepare such a filling, but the tartlets with it look bright and festive. Their taste will not disappoint your guests either.
Filling of crab sticks
Composition:
- crab sticks (chilled or frozen) - 100 g;
- Dutch cheese - 100 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- mayonnaise - 50 ml;
- pitted olives - as needed;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Crab sticks rub on a coarse grater. If they are frozen, then defrosting them before this is not necessary - it will be even easier to grind them.
- Boil the chicken eggs, peel and grate, too.
- Crush the cheese in the same way.
- Mix crab chips, cheese and eggs, seasoned with mayonnaise.
- Arrange the salad in baskets, garnish with olives.
Such an appetizer for a buffet table will be inexpensive. However, your guests will surely enjoy the taste of it, and after the buffet on the table there will not be a single tartlet with crab filling.
Juliente Tartlets
Composition:
- boiled chicken breast - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh champignons - 0, 2 kg;
- hard cheese - 80 g;
- onions - 80 g;
- cream - 0, 2 l;
- flour - 10 g;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the chicken breast, separate the fillets from the bones and cut into small cubes.
- Wash, blot dry mushrooms. Cut them into approximately the same cubes as chicken breast.
- Finely chop the peeled medium-sized onion.
- Heat the oil in the pan, fry the onion, chicken and mushroom mixture. Fry over low heat until all excess liquid from the pan is evaporated.
- Sprinkle the mixture with flour, stir. All this time you do not need to remove the pan from the fire.
- Pour in the cream, stir well.
- Continue cooking until the contents of the pan are thick enough.
- Spread julienne on tartlets, sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Place in preheated oven and bake until cheese is melted and browned.
It will be necessary to tinker with the preparation of such tartlets, but this is just the case when the result fully justifies the effort expended.
Filling with caviar
Composition:
- caviar - 0, 2 kg;
- curd cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- dill or parsley - for decoration.
Method of preparation:
- Spread cheese on tartlets.
- Place a spoon of caviar on top.
- Decorate with greens.
It is difficult to imagine a buffet table without tartlets with such a simple, but at the same time refined stuffing.
Tartlets with sweet filling
Composition:
- fresh strawberries - 0, 4 kg;
- chicken egg - 5 pcs .;
- sugar - 80 g;
- vanilla sugar - 5 g;
- flour - 50 g;
- milk - 0, 5 l;
- mint - for decoration.
Method of preparation:
- Add vanilla sugar to milk, bring to a boil and cool to about 60 degrees.
- Separate yolks from proteins. Pound yolks with sugar, mix with flour. Proteins can be used to prepare any other dish.
- Pour milk into yolks in a thin stream, whipping everything with a whisk.
- When the mixture has a uniform consistency, put it in a water bath and warm it up for a quarter of an hour, without boiling. After that, cool the vanilla cream in the refrigerator.
- Wash and dry the strawberries. If it is too large, cut the berries into several pieces.
- Fill the baskets with vanilla cream, place the strawberries on top.
- Decorate tartlets with mint leaves.
Sweet tartlets resemble pastries well known to us from childhood. Not surprisingly, children especially like them. However, adults will not give up such an exquisite delicacy.
Stuffing for tartlets can be different. Each housewife can add something special to the recipe by preparing a unique treat.
