Homemade tartlets

The tartlets on the table look very beautiful and original. These are such small baskets that are stuffed with all possible salads and pates, even used for sweet desserts. Increasingly, you can find a recipe for a dish served in tartlets. I offer a variant of homemade shortcrust pastry tartlets. The recipe uses only three ingredients: butter, flour and sour cream. And the result is delicious, natural and homemade tartlets.

Ingredients for homemade tarts:

Grate cold butter into the sifted flour with salt. The amount of flour may differ from that given in the recipe, for this, first use 1 or 1.5 cups of flour, and then add. Use good quality oil, then the result will be excellent.

With clean hands, grind the butter with flour into crumbs. You will get a small crumb with a delicious smell of butter.

Add sour cream to butter crumbs and knead the dough.

Knead the dough until a smooth elastic state. The dough should not crumble. If you feel that there is not enough flour, gradually add to the desired dough consistency. You will get a ball of dough, which is put in the cold for 30 minutes.

The rested dough can be used for baking tartlets. Prepare special molds, metal for cupcakes or special for tartlets. It is not necessary to grease the form, there is enough fat in the dough.

Separate a piece from the dough. put on the bottom of the mold and gently spread it with your fingers, filling in all the voids. The wall thickness should be thin, but not much.

You can also adjust the height of the tartlets yourself, distribute the dough to the brim, the tartlet will be deep. Define to your liking. Pierce the bottom of the tartlets with a fork and sprinkle with peas. This is necessary so that the dough does not rise during baking and the bottom is even. Instead of peas, also use any cereal.

In a hot oven, put all the molds with dough and bake until golden brown. The oven temperature is 190 degrees, the baking time depends on the size of the tartlets. It took me 35 minutes. Get ready-made tartlets, cool and remove from the mold, remove the peas.

This is how easy it is to make homemade tartlets for your dishes. It is better to cook them in advance, they will have time to infuse and there will be no need to rush on the day of serving.