How to prepare the dough for the tartlets

Tartlets - puff pastry, designed to supply a variety of fillings: meat, fish, mushroom, vegetable, fruit and others. They are easy to prepare and perfect for a holiday table, and for a humble family dinner. Tartlets are sweet and salty, so the dough for them, too, can be prepared in different ways.

You will need

• • For sweet tartlets:
  • Flour — 1.5 cups;
  • Egg — 1 piece;
  • Butter — 100 grams;
  • Sugar — 2 tablespoons.
  • For savoury tartlets:
  • Flour — 300 grams;
  • Butter — 200 grams;
  • The yolks of eggs — 3 pieces.
  • For tartlets of puff pastry:
  • Flour - 3 cups;
  • Margarine - 200 grams;
  • Sour cream - 200 grams.

Instruction

1. To prepare the dough for the tartlets , you will need to mix all the necessary ingredients. Butter or margarine in advance to warm up. Next, you knead the dough, roll it into a ball and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
2. Chilled dough roll out and cut out circles with a thickness of 0.5 cm. Circles can be cut with glass. The diameter of the circles should be 2 inches more than the molds for baking.
3. Put the dough into molds, if the edges overhang a bit, then bend them inward.
4. In each mold, on top of the dough, put a piece of foil. On top you need to pour the cargo (beans, peas, rice or other), to ensure that the dough did not rise.
5. Bake the dough in the oven for 10 minutes at 200 degrees. Then remove the foil and bake until Golden color.
6. When the tart has cooled, you can fill them with stuffing.