Chicken & Mushroom Curd Tartlets: A Perfect Festive Appetizer

A wonderful appetizer for the holiday table. Itʼs delicious and beautiful! Tartlets are always a welcome table decoration. They are good for the New Year, and for birthdays, and for any other holiday. They are suitable for a buffet, for a snack on the road, and for a picnic (if packed correctly and carefully). In a word, there are a great many options for using them... Conveniently, the preparations can be baked in advance, filled with any filling on the day of the celebration and served to your favorite guests. You can make a lot of tartlets at once. From the set of products that I offer in this recipe, I get about 30 pieces (give or take) of the tartlets themselves. The mushroom and chicken filling is delicious and makes the tartlets a very filling dish. Don’t let the time I indicated for preparing this dish scare you, as it includes all the preparatory processes, such as soaking and boiling mushrooms, baking chicken, etc.
cook time: 3h
Chloe Benton
Chicken & Mushroom Curd Tartlets: A Perfect Festive Appetizer

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

324
Calories
24g
Fat
13g
Carbs
14g
Protein

Ingredients (30 portions)

For tartlets:

Salt 0.5 tsp
Wheat flour 200 g
Butter 150 g
Cottage cheese 150 g

For filling:

Garlic 2 clove
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper to taste
Hard cheese 200 g
Bulb onions 1 pc
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Mayonnaise 2 tbsp
Greenery to taste
Oregano dry 0.5 tsp
Chicken fillet 250 g
Dried mushrooms 80 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Products for making tartlets. The flour must be sifted. If you use margarine, then you do not need to add salt to the dough. If you take butter, then add 0.5 tsp for taste. salt into the dough. Before kneading the dough, pass the cottage cheese through a meat grinder for homogeneity, rub through a sieve or crush with a potato masher. Mix all the ingredients and knead the dough until smooth.

Step 2

Step 2
We get a homogeneous, soft dough that does not stick to your hands, roll it into a ball. Wrap in cling film and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Step 3

Step 3
While the dough is resting, letʼs make the filling. The evening before, I baked chicken fillet in the oven with salt, ground black pepper and chicken spices (40 minutes at 200 degrees). I thoroughly but quickly washed the dried porcini mushrooms in cold water, then soaked them in cold salted water for 4 hours. Then I cooked it in a saucepan for about 2 hours until done (check this way: shake the pan with mushrooms — if the mushrooms settle to the bottom, they are cooked).

Step 4

Step 4
Cut the boiled mushrooms into small pieces, peeled and washed onions into small cubes.

Step 5

Step 5
In a hot frying pan in vegetable oil, fry the onion until golden brown, add mushrooms, oregano, salt, stir, add a little mushroom broth (2-3 tbsp), simmer for a couple of minutes until the water evaporates.

Step 6

Step 6
Place the contents of the frying pan into a bowl, cool, squeeze out the garlic, pepper to taste, and add mayonnaise (sour cream or cream). Finely grate the cheese into a separate container.

Step 7

Step 7
Cut off a piece of dough. We roll it out into a layer 0.2-0.3 cm thick. We select a stencil in the form of a circle (lid, saucer, glass) with a diameter slightly larger than the molds in which we will bake the tartlets. We cut circles of the same size according to the stencil. We repeat all steps until the dough is finished.

Step 8

Step 8
Place a circle of dough into each mold and press it along the bottom and sides of the mold. Prick the bottom and sides of each tartlet with a fork in several places to prevent the dough from bubbling. Place the molds on a baking sheet and place in the oven. We bake tartlets at 180 degrees. until slightly browned, not forgetting that later we will put them in the oven again along with the filling.

Step 9

Step 9
This is what the finished tartlets look like. Let them cool and carefully remove them from the molds.

Step 10

Step 10
Fill the tartlets with filling.

Step 11

Step 11
Sprinkle the filling with grated cheese on top. Place the baking tray with tartlets in an oven preheated to 180 degrees until the cheese melts.

Step 12

Step 12
Place the still warm tartlets on a dish or tray and decorate as you wish. Letʼs bring it to the table. They are delicious both warm and already cooled. Help yourself, itʼs very tasty!

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