Tartlet will turn any salad into an amazing appetizer. But still it’s better to prepare your toppings for baskets. Here is a selection of the most successful options for all occasions.
Stuffings for appetizer tartlets - general principles of preparation
Large tartlets are often used for snacks, as in small baskets it is difficult to fit something other than butter and caviar. It is very important not to apply liquid or too juicy products, from which the bottom will sag. Typically, the filling in tartlets is a bit drier than regular salads, which flaunt nearby on the table.
What can be used:
• cheeses of different types, eggs, dairy products;
• seafood, crab sticks, fish;
• vegetables, mushrooms;
• sausages, meat or poultry.
Since tartlets are small in size, the ingredients are cut or rubbed into small pieces. For dressing use mayonnaise, sour cream, yogurt. Decorate snacks with herbs, pieces of vegetables, caviar.
Shrimp and mozzarella appetizer for tartlets
Instead of mozzarella in the filling for appetizer tartlets, you can use other types of similar cheese. It is important that the product is just as tender and has a similar consistency.
Ingredients
• four eggs;
• 0.5 bunch of dill;
• 150 g of shrimp;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tbsp. l oils;
• some mayonnaise, salt.
Cooking
1. Shrimps can be simply boiled, but it is best fried in oil with garlic. Therefore, we clean or take immediately without the shell. Chop the garlic clove.
2. Pour oil into a pan, heat and lay shrimps, fry for a minute, add garlic and warm for another minute. This is enough for seafood, but you can nicely brown it to a crust. Set aside.
3. Peel the boiled eggs, grate finely, also do with cheese and a second clove of garlic. We chop dill. All this is transferred to a bowl, add a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise and stir. Add salt and pepper to taste.
4. We fill the tartlets with the resulting salad.
5. Top with fried shrimp. You can put not one thing, but several. It all depends on their size and the resulting quantity.
Smoked pink salmon tartlet filling
To prepare such a filling, you can use not only pink salmon, but also mackerel. The main task is to take out all the bones so that they do not fall into the tartlets.
Ingredients
• 200 grams of pink salmon;
• 1 cucumber;
• 25-30 g of mayonnaise;
• 1 tsp mustard;
• 1 tbsp. l sour cream;
• some greens.
Cooking
1. Fish should be cut into very small cubes, but not chopped into minced meat, pieces should be visible. Transfer pink salmon to a bowl.
2. Peel the cucumber, even if the peel is very thin and soft. Only the inside is used here. We also cut it into small cubes.
3. Cooking the sauce. To do this, mix the mustard with ordinary mayonnaise, add a little sour cream, stir and transfer to the fish with cucumber.
4. Stuffing should be thoroughly mixed with the sauce, tasted, the fish may not be salty enough, if necessary, add a little salt.
5. We fill the tartlets with fish mass, put them on a dish in which the snack will be served.
6. On top of each put a small twig of greenery and serve it to the table!
Blue cheese filling tartlets for appetizer
A recipe for a delicious filling for appetizer tartlets, which are prepared only with blue cheese. In addition, you need one sweet and sour apple.
Ingredients
• large apple;
• small onion;
• 120 g of cheese;
• 1 spoon of oil (soften);
• 1 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
• 3 tbsp. l nuts.
Cooking
1. You need to start with nuts, send them to the pan and fry a little. Cool, chop.
2. Chop onion finely and pour over boiling water. To do this, put the pieces in a sieve and simply pour hot water from the kettle. Cool, sleep in a bowl.
3. Finely chop the cheese, add to the onion, pour the walnuts.
4. Peel the apple, cut into small cubes, transfer to the total mass.
5. Fill the filling with a sauce of soft butter mixed with mayonnaise. Stir thoroughly, put on tartlets.
Avocado appetizer tartlets
A variant of a very useful filling for avocado tartlets. This appetizer will be distinguished by the complete absence of mayonnaise and other dressings. The oily fruit perfectly replaces them.
Ingredients
• ripe avocado;
• 5 tbsp. l ricotta or other cottage cheese;
• 1 slice of lemon;
• tartlets, greens.
Cooking
1. Ricotta knead well, add a little chopped parsley or dill.
2. Cut the fruit of the avocado, carefully remove the seed. Pour along the skin with a spoon, separate the pulp, transfer to a bowl of cheese.
3. Thoroughly mash avocados and cheese.
4. Squeeze the juice from a slice of lemon, a few drops are enough. You can add a pinch of grated zest for flavor.
5. Fill with the prepared mass of tartlets. It can act as an independent filling or basis. If desired, put slices of fish, shrimp, caviar on top.
Filling for appetizer tartlets with pineapple and chicken
A simple recipe for a very hearty filling for tartlets. It uses canned pineapple, but you can also take fresh fruit, chicken also goes well with it.
Ingredients
• 250 g fillet;
• 2 rings of pineapple;
• 30 g nuts;
• 40 g sour cream;
• 20 g of mayonnaise;
• salt and other spices to taste.
Cooking
1. Rinse the chicken fillet, transfer to a pan, add pepper, laurel, add water and boil for exactly 20 minutes, cool, cut into small cubes.
2. Pineapple rings also cut into small cubes, immediately shift to the chicken.
3. Add sour cream with mayonnaise, salt and stir.
4. Fill the tartlets with salad.
5. Chop the nuts, sprinkle the contents of the tartlets on top. The appetizer does not need additional decoration.
Mushroom tartlet filling with mushrooms
Mushrooms and cheese are used here as the most popular duet. Champignons will be the main ingredient, as they do not require preliminary boiling and are cooked quickly enough.
Ingredients
• 230 g of champignons;
• a spoon of sour cream;
• onion head;
• 2-3 tbsp. l oils;
• 80 g of cheese;
• 3 branches of dill;
• salt, garlic to taste.
Cooking
1. Pour oil into a pan, put on fire.
2. Cut the onion into cubes, transfer to butter. Cook for a couple of minutes, stir so that the pieces do not burn.
3. Cut mushrooms into slices, do not coarsely. If the hats are large, then first we cut the mushrooms into four parts, then we make plates. We shift to the onion, fry until tender.
4. Add a spoonful of sour cream to the mushrooms, salt, you can pepper. It is allowed to add garlic, but only a small slice. Warm up the mushrooms with sour cream for a minute and turn it off.
5. Grate the cheese finely. Put a thin layer on each bottom of the tartlet.
6. Spread the mushrooms evenly into each tartlet.
7. Cut the dill greens very finely, mix with the grated cheese that remains.
8. Sprinkle grated cheese with dill on top of the appetizer. You can serve the appetizer in a warm form or pre-cool. It is undesirable to keep it open for a long time, as the cheese dries.
Stuffed for tartlets for a snack with cottage cheese
Curd filling for tartlets is incredibly tasty, satisfying, healthy, and it is also very easy to prepare. The whole process will take no more than a quarter of an hour. It is better to take a gentle cottage cheese, which is well stretched and does not form dry lumps.
Ingredients
• 200 g of cottage cheese;
• 1 cucumber;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 3-4 branches of dill;
• sour cream, salt, pepper.
Cooking
1. Rub the cottage cheese. If the edges are badly kneading, then you can beat with a combine or use a sieve.
2. Peel a clove of garlic, chop, shift to cottage cheese.
3. Add dill, chopped finely.
4. Cut the tips of the cucumber, then cut into slices, slices and across into small cubes. Transfer to the total mass.
5. Add a little salt to the filling and put sour cream. Here you need to be careful, the mass should not turn out liquid. Stir well.
6. Fill the tartlets and you're done! For decoration, you can use dill greens or thin slices of fresh cucumber.
Stuffing for appetizer tartlets with crab sticks
Crab sticks are a very popular salad ingredient and can also be used for delicious toppings. Tartlets with them are very tasty and smell like seafood.
Ingredients
• 8 sticks;
• 4 tbsp. l rice;
• 5 tbsp. l maize;
• 3 tbsp. l mayonnaise;
• cucumber.
Cooking
1. Rice must be washed thoroughly, put into boiling water, boiled, but not overdone. It is better to use large cereal. Discard in a colander, let the water drain and the rice cool.
2. Cut the crab sticks into pieces of any shape, you can use small strips, cubes or just across to make circles.
3. Cut the cucumber finely, combine with chopsticks.
4. Add rice to the bulk, pour out canned corn, season with mayonnaise.
5. Stuff the filling thoroughly, try, and add salt if necessary.
6. Put the filling in tartlets, lay with a slide. Garnish with a small sprig of greenery.
Tartlets for appetizer - useful tips and tricks
• In most snacks, regular salt can be replaced with soy sauce. It gives a deeper and more pleasant taste, especially suitable for fish, chicken, seafood.
• It is undesirable to make tartlets in advance, as they become wet from wet filling. But you can cook the filling and put it in the refrigerator, so that you can quickly assemble the snack at the right time.
