Cheese and garlic tartlets with crab sticks

10 servings
40 min

Such a snack is good to serve with white semi-sweet or dry wine. Rosemary can be replaced with dill, parsley or other favorite greens. This filling is very well combined with rye tartlets. Those who don't like crab sticks can use peeled boiled shrimp, which must also be crushed in a blender and mixed with curd cheese. Do everything else as prescribed in the recipe.

How to make cheese and garlic tartlets with crab sticks? First of all, do the filling. Prepare the products for her. Both crab sticks and crab meat, like mine, are suitable for cooking. If they were frozen, defrost them and release them from the film. Cheese is suitable for the type Hochland, Almette, Kremette.

Place the crab meat in a blender bowl and whisk until smooth, puree-like.

Dill, dry and chop finely. Peel the garlic and pass through the press.

In a small salad bowl, combine curd cheese, crab meat ground in a blender, crushed garlic and dill. Salt the mass (only neatly, both cheese and meat are already quite salty), pepper and mix. It can be mixed to a uniform pinkish consistency. I mixed very little, trying to evenly distribute garlic, dill and spices, but at the same time preserve white pieces of cheese. I wanted the roses to be marble.

Transfer the resulting cream to a pastry bag with a closed star attachment. The size of the nozzle - the larger the better.

Prepare the rest of the ingredients. Wash, dry and disassemble rosemary into small bundles of needles.

Wash the cherry tomatoes, dry and cut into quarters.

Fill the tartlets with crab filling, squeezing out the confectionery bag rosettes. If desired, you can put 1 tsp of red caviar on the bottom of the tartlets before that.

Garnish the tartlets with red caviar, quarters of cherry tomatoes and rosemary needles. Serve the snack to the table. Enjoy your meal!

How to buy crab sticks correctly? Be sure to pay attention to the shelf life of the product. Surimi meat (minced white fish) should appear in the list of composition in first place. Important! Do not buy a product if there is frost on it. This is a sign of re-freezing. Fresh sticks should be grey and yellow-free, resilient and a little wet. If the product is sticky, then it is spoiled.

The film in which each crab stick is wrapped is sometimes poorly removed. To facilitate the process, hold the sticks over the steam for 1-3 seconds.

Choose tomatoes that are juicy but dense. Soft fruits do not hold their shape well, in the process of cutting and cooking they will spread into a shapeless mass and spoil the appearance of the dish.