Tartlets with salmon and cottage cheese. Several recipe options

They say that the tartlets (and the dish itself, and various fillings) were invented by the French. These delicious small baskets are baked separately and together with the contents. The filling has many recipes. Among them - tartlets with salmon and cottage cheese. This dish also has its options. For example, make tartlets with salmon and cottage cheese and cucumber. And there is a recipe for avocado. Shall we try to cook it?

Tartlets with salmon and cottage cheese

The recipe for cooking is quite simple, but there are also some nuances, without which there is not a single delicious dish! First, let's talk about the ingredients. This, in fact, the baskets of dough, salted salmon (pink), cheese mass and greens for decoration. Let us dwell in detail on each.

How to bake tartlets?

Their - the baskets themselves - are baked, as a rule, in the oven. You can buy and ready in any supermarket, but homemade - they are tastier! In addition, for those who like to "frown" with the recipe - the most it! The oven of the basket is necessary in special molds. But the dough is different: fresh, sand, custard, puffed ... Let's try and we will explore several options.

Shortbread

Ingredients: a glass of flour, a packet of margarine (100 grams), one egg yolk, a little sugar, salt, water.

Salt is mixed with flour, and beat the yolk with sugar. Margarine (or butter) is cut. Knead the dough, gradually pouring water into it. Then we remove it in the cold for 30 minutes. Then roll out into thin layers (thickness - 3 mm). We arrange the molds for the tartlets next to each other. Cover with a layer of dough, we spend with a rolling pin, so that it comes off. We remove the excess. Bake at a sufficiently high temperature for 15 minutes. We fill the finished baskets with the selected stuffing. Tartlets with salmon and cottage cheese are ready. You can eat. Well this dish goes on receptions and receptions.

Fresh pastry

Ingredients: a glass of flour, 200 grams of butter, three yolks.

Mix the flour with the softened butter. We introduce yolks. We knead the dough and clean it in the cold for half an hour. Then bake in the oven, as in the first version. To dough in the molds is not "sulky," you can put a pea on the bottom or pierce in several places with a fork before cooking.

Preparation

To make tartlets with salmon and curd cheese, you need to mix the cheese with finely chopped herbs (dill, parsley). There, too, we crush a small piece of garlic for taste and piquancy. You can do it right in the blender, then you get a cream. And you can simply mix it by hand, then a more structural consistency is obtained. Next, each basket is filled with two-thirds of the cheese mass from a special culinary dispenser. If it is not at hand, use a cellophane bag with a hole in it. On top of the construction closes a small layer of salmon. Of course, it is necessary to take slightly salted, but you can also use smoked. For beauty, the layer can be placed in the form of a sail, piercing it with a wooden stick or toothpick. The final touch - decorate a sprig of parsley and dill. Delicious tartlets with salmon and cottage cheese are ready for use.

Option with caviar

Ingredients: baskets - 10 pieces, four eggs, a can of red caviar (100 grams), 200 grams of soft curd cheese, a couple of spoons of mayonnaise Provencal, shrimps peeled - 100 grams, salmon (seams) - 150 grams.

Boil the eggs hard and cut into small cubes. Soft cheese is kneaded with egg, adding mayonnaise and a little garlic. Cheese-egg mixture with a dispenser or bag is squeezed out two-thirds into baskets. Then follows the layer of salmon. Finally - shrimp and caviar (as beads for decoration). In addition, you can stick in the construction of a sprig of dill.

Variant with avocado

Ingredients: fillet of salmon (layers) - 150 grams, two fruits of avocado, 100 grams of curd cheese, lemon juice, dill for decoration of dishes, baskets for tartlets.

Avocado is peeled and peeled. Together with the cheese, grind in an avocado blender. Season with lemon juice. We spread the mass on the tartlets. From above in each basket is a piece of salmon. Decorate with greens (you can use and pieces of olives).

Option with cucumbers: "Matryoshka"

Ingredients: light salted salmon - 100 grams, soft cheese - 100 grams, two fresh cucumbers, one avocado, lemon juice, greens.

Half the cucumbers cut into cubes finely. The rest - long plates along. Cut the red fish into long thin slices. Avocado cut into cubes, peeling previously from the peel and sunflower seeds. Mix avocado, cucumber and cheese. The resulting mass is expanded into baskets, filling with lemon juice. From the plates of cucumber and fish, we form rings and attach them with skewers from above, so that they keep well. Garnish with greenery.

Such tartlets with salmon and cottage cheese (photo above) are well suited for holidays - New Year or Christmas.