Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, tart shells. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tart shells is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Tart shells is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Easy to make delicious homemade Mini Tart Shells. Fill them with your favorite filling from lemon curd, chocolate mousse, pastry cream or fruit. Easy and simplest way on how to make tart shells.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have tart shells using 5 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tart shells:
- Take shells
- Take 2 cup flour
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 2/3 cup shortening
- Prepare 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons water
Today I'm going to show you how I make these shortcrust pastry tarts or Mini Tart Shells using my. A tart shell is a freestanding shallow, formed pastry crust that provides the base for an open-faced pastry. Chef Dominique blind-bakes his tart shells, which involves baking the dough fully by itself. This past weekend, I was browsing at the UTC Williams-Sonoma store, and saw a bunch of really cool baking pans and gadgets that I wanted to get.
Instructions to make Tart shells:
- Combine the flour and salt and mix together. With a pastry cutter or two forks , cut in shortening until it looks like crumbs.
- Add the quarter cup of water and stir in.
- Stir until dough forms, may need the extra water here.
- With your hands knead dough just until smooth, just a few kneads will do this.
- Form a rectangle shape and divide into 24 equal pieces. About the size of a ping pong ball.
- Heat oven to 400°F.
- Press each piece of dough into a muffin tin, pushing 3/4 of the way up. Press evenly and tightly in muffin cups.
- With a fork, prick bottom and sides of dough.
- Bake 10-12 minutes letting them get a light golden brown.
- These shells are made to hold already prepared fillings and can just be heated in. Do not use these for a recipe needing to cook the filling
- Suggestions for use,, I use them for my sweet potato bites.
- Quick shrimp recipe to use with tart shells……….Take 48 large, fresh shrimp, shelled and deviened. Saute shrimp in 2 tablespoons olive oil and 8 cloves of minced garlic.
- Cook until shrimp turn pink. Stir in 4 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese and 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley. Season with salt and pepper and add 2 shrimp each to cooked tart shells.
If you're tired of soggy pastry in your favorite tart recipes or a recipe tells you to blind bake the shells, bake the tart shells before you fill them. Make a classic pastry dough and chill it before you roll it out. I have lamented tart crusts for years, as it seemed that no matter what I did-chill the crusts, weight the crusts, arranged small prayer circles outside the oven-they shrunk on me. This tart shell recipe is a must-have recipe for anyone who likes baking and entertaining. Pre-made tart shells, which can be made in advance, a perfect base for any kind of.
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