Tartlets firmly settled on the festive table. Miniature baskets are used for a variety of snacks and salads. It looks beautiful and spectacular. But it’s not always possible to buy tartlets or like the choice in the store. The solution is to find a replacement. Here are five different options for a festive table.
Cheese baskets
A wonderful alternative to tartlets is cheese baskets. They are very simple and quick to prepare, you only need a good frying pan. Additionally, we use flour or starch. We will set the form with a glass or a stack.
Ingredients
- 250 g of cheese;
- 1 tablespoon of starch or flour.
Cooking method
- Grate cheese, mix with starch or a spoonful of flour. It is important to choose a cheese that melts.
- Heat the pan. We pour cheese around so that we get a pancake. We make the size we need, we don’t need to completely cover the bottom.
- Let the cheese melt, then pick up the pancake with a spatula and transfer it to an inverted glass or pile, adjust the edges.
- After cooling, remove the tartlet from the dishes, fill it with salad or any snack.
If desired, you can add greens, dried spices to the cheese mass, it will turn out beautifully and brightly with paprika, turmeric.
Lavash tartlets
Armenian lavash is often used for other purposes. And from it so many interesting things can be done, even tartlets. A wonderful way to get out of the situation. There are three ways to make baskets: in tins, on glasses, and with cheese. You can choose the most suitable option.
Ingredients
- thin pita bread;
- vegetable oil;
- egg;
- cheese.
Cooking method
- For any cooking method, we need to chop pita bread. Usually squares are made with sides of 10 by 10 cm. If you need very small tartlets, for example, for caviar, then we do even less.
- For the first method, put a piece of pita bread in a mold for muffins. Lubricate with vegetable oil, cover with another piece so that the corners do not match. It is also slightly lubricated. Bake in the oven at 200 for several minutes until the edges are lightly browned.
- For the second method, we need the same pieces of dough and a little beaten egg. Turn the glasses over on a baking sheet, put a piece of tortilla on top of the bottom, press. Lubricate with egg and cover with another piece of pita bread. Press again. Bake for several minutes in the oven, remove the baskets from the glasses.
- For the third method you will need cheese. We put a piece of pita bread in a mold, sprinkle with cheese, cover with another flat cake, press, send for a moment in the microwave. You can cook tartlets in the oven. The main thing is not to overdry.
It is convenient to cut pita bread with ordinary scissors. If the cakes are slightly dried, then you can sprinkle them with water, put in a bag and warm them slightly in the microwave.
Puff pastry tartlets
Very tasty homemade tartlets that can be combined with any salty and sweet fillings. We use the dough without yeast, otherwise it will not work. It is also important to remove it from the freezer in advance so that it thaws well and there are no problems with rolling. There are three cooking methods.
Ingredients
- puff pastry;
- egg.
Cooking method
- Roll out puff pastry to three millimeters. With a large cup or cutting, we cut out the circles. We put it in molds, straighten the edges. We make a lot of punctures on the bottom. Bake at 200 degrees until tender.
- Cut the same circles as in the previous version. Turn the glasses over, grease the bottom with a drop of oil, cover with dough and press. For small tartlets we use piles. Bake until tender.
- Roll out the dough and cut a stack of small circles up to five centimeters. We do the quantity that we need. Each tartlet will have one tartlet. From the rest of the dough we make ribbons centimeter wide. Lubricate the mugs with an egg, lay out the edge of the ribbon along the edge. We bake baskets also at 200 degrees.
There are other ways to form tartlets from puff pastry. Sometimes they are made in the form of envelopes, pies with a hole, wicker baskets.
Profiteroles they are eclairs
A smart replacement for ready-made tartlets - home-made custard eclairs or profiteroles. What is the difference between them? Only form. Profiteroles are round, eclairs are elongated, different blanks can be made from one dough.
Ingredients
- 250 g of water or milk;
- 0.5 tsp salt;
- 0.5 tsp Sahara;
- 140 g of flour;
- 110 g of oil;
- 5 eggs.
Cooking method
- Boil water with oil, salt and eggs. As soon as the bubbles appear, pour the flour, while stirring quickly. We heat until the mass begins to lag behind the walls.
- Lightly cool the flour brew, up to about 70 degrees. Then one egg at a time. Can be used to stir the mixer.
- The finished dough can be laid out with a spoon or squeezed out through a bag, we make heaps of 2-3 cm or sticks 1.5-2 cm wide. Squeeze the dough immediately until the mass has cooled. Grease a baking sheet. Between the eclairs there must be a distance of at least three centimeters.
- We put the eclairs in the oven at 230 degrees and lower the temperature to 180. Bake for about 20 minutes, focus on color. Then we cool, cut off the tops, use instead of tartlets.
By the way, you can buy blanks for eclairs, they are found in culinary and grocery stores.
Loaf tartlets
A lazy way to make tartlets that any housewife can handle. It is best to use a baguette of small diameter, an egg is additionally required.
Ingredients
- egg;
- loaf;
- salt.
Cooking method
- Cut the loaf into pieces of 2.5 centimeters. Carefully remove the pulp inside, leaving the bottom about 0.5 centimeters.
- Grease the resulting cups with the egg, send to the oven.
- Bake lazy tartlets to a light crust or just lightly dry at 180 degrees.
Another option for lazy baskets is small round buns. You just need to cut off the top, remove the crumb, bake the resulting container in the oven.
