Best Phyllo Tartlets Recipes

BRIE AND CRANBERRY TARTLETS BRIE AND CRANBERRY TARTLETS MAKES 45 TARTLETS 3 (1.9-OUNCE) PACKAGES MINIATURE PHYLLO PASTRY SHELLS (45 SHELLS)* 1 CUP WHOLE-BERRY CRANBERRY SAUCE 1 TABLESPOON ORANGE ZEST

Steps:

• Brie and Cranberry Tartlets
• Brie and Cranberry Tartlets
• Makes 45 tartlets
• (1.9-ounce) packages miniature phyllo pastry shells (45 shells)*
• cup whole-berry cranberry sauce
• tablespoon orange zest
• (8-ounce) wheel of Brie, rind removed
• Preheat oven to 350°. Line a baking sheet with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Place shells on prepared baking sheet, and bake for 5 minutes. Cool completely on baking sheet. Reduce oven temperature to 300°.
• In a small bowl, combine cranberry sauce and orange zest. Cut Brie into about 45 pieces. Place 1 Brie piece in each pastry shell; top with about 1 teaspoon cranberry mixture.
• Bake for 4 to 6 minutes, or just until cheese begins to melt. Serve immediately.
• *We tested with Athens Mini Fillo Shells.

SENSUOUS PHYLLO FRUIT TARTLETS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Place a sheet of phyllo on a flat surface such as a cutting board; spray lightly with spray and sprinkle with 1 tbsp sugar. Cover with another sheet of phyllo. Repeat three times, finishing with spray and sugar. Using a pizza cutter or a very sharp knife, cut the phyllo into 3-inch squares. Place each square in a cup on a muffin tin, pressing in gently and fanning phyllo layers so corners don't overlap. Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until golden. Whip yogurt in a small bowl. Fold in Neufchâtel and vanilla (and liquor, if desired). Cover and refrigerate 10 minutes. After cups have cooled, remove them from muffin tin. Add 1 tbsp yogurt mixture to each cup. Top with fruit and serve. (You can also mix fruit directly into yogurt mixture.)

CRAB & SHRIMP PHYLLO TARTLETS

Steps:

• Brush one sheet of phyllo with melted butter, place next sheet on top, brush with butter, repeating until all four sheets are used, do not brush top sheet with butter.
• Cut into 24 equal squares.
• Place each square into ungreased mini muffin cups.
• Bake at 350 5-7 minute until brown.
• Beat cream cheese with electric beaters, until creamy.
• Add ketchup, horseradish, hot sauce, and worcestershire sauce, mix through.
• Add onion,crab, and shrimp.
• Stir to mix trough.
• Put a heaping tablespoon of mixture into each baked phyllo shell, garnish with one whole med shrimp and chives.

MUSHROOM PHYLLO TARTLETS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Melt 2 tbsp butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
• Add mushrooms, shallots and garlic & flour; mix well.
• Cook 5 minutes or until tender, stirring frequently.
• Add cream and cheese; mix well.
• Cook 2 to 3 more minutes or until most of the liquid has evaporated, stirring frequently; set aside.
• Melt remaining butter in a small dish in microwave.
• Brush one sheet of phyllo with butter, place another sheet on top, and brush with butter, repeat, do not butter top of last sheet.
• Cut phyllo into 24 equal squares, and place each square into ungreased mini muffin cups.
• Spoon one heaping teaspoon mushroom mixture into each cup.
• Bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
• Sprinkle with parsley.

CRAB PHYLLO CUP TARTLETS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*.
• Mix the cream cheese and horseradish sauce together.
• Fold in the crabmeat and onion.
• Using a small sized scoop (Pampered Chef), place filling into tart shells.
• Sprinkle with a small amount of paprika.
• Bake for 16-18 minutes, or until slightly brown on top.

PHYLLO TARTLETS WITH SMOKE SALMON RILLETTES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 F. Place tartlett shells on a sheet tray and bake until golden brown. Let cool.
• Mince salmon in a food processor. In a medium bowl, mix salmon, onion, chives, capers, aioli and a touch of lemon. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Refrigerate until use.
• In a small bowl, mix yogurt, dill, lemon, salt and pepper. To serve, fill each shell with a spoon of salmon mixture. Top with a refined amount of caviar and tiny dollop of yogurt. Garnish with dainty dill sprig.

CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE PHYLLO TARTLETS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, melted chocolate and vanilla until smooth. , Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; insert #32 star pastry tip. Fill the bag with cream cheese mixture; pipe into tart shells. Garnish with chocolate curls if desired. Refrigerate until serving.

MUSHROOM PHYLLO TARTLETS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
• In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat and add shallots, cooking until softened about 2 minutes
• Add mushrooms and cook until tender and almost all liquid is cooked away, stirring occasionally
• Add wine and cook until wine is almost evaporated, stirring occasionally
• Sprinkle flour over mushroom mixture and cook and stir until well blended, about 2 minutes
• Increase heat to high and add cream, stirring well until mixture comes to a boil
• Remove from heat and stir in parsley, lemon juice, salt and cayenne, and let cool slightly
• Place prepared phyllo shells on a baking sheet and fill almost to the top with mushroom mixture
• Bake for 5-8 minutes until heated through
• Serve warm

FRUIT TARTLETS IN PISTACHIO PHYLLO SHELLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F and butter four 1/2-cup muffin cups.
• Melt 2 tablespoons butter and cool. In a shallow baking pan toast pistachios in middle of oven, shaking pan occasionally, until golden, about 10 minutes. Cool nuts and finely chop.
• On a work surface stack phyllo sheets and cut out four 6-inch squares (for a total of 12 single-sheet squares), discarding scraps. Stack phyllo squares between 2 sheets of wax paper and cover with a kitchen towel. Line each buttered muffin cup with 1 phyllo square, pressing into bottom (don't worry if pastry rips). Fold in pastry overhang and brush inside and edges with some melted butter. In a small bowl stir together 1 tablespoon nuts and 1 tablespoon brown sugar. Sprinkle bottom of each pastry shell with ‚ teaspoon mixture. Make 2 more layers of phyllo, butter, nuts, and sugar in same manner. Bake shells in middle of oven until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Carefully lift shells out of pan and transfer to a rack to cool slightly.
• While shells are baking, cut peach into 1/2-inch-thick wedges and halve wedges crosswise. In a bowl toss peach and berries with honey, lemon juice, and vanilla and let stand at room temperature, stirring occasionally, at least 15 minutes.
• In a small bowl stir together sour cream and remaining brown sugar to taste. Just before serving, divide sour-cream mixture among shells and with a slotted spoon fill shells with fruit.
• Drizzle fruit and serving plates with some of remaining fruit juices in bowl. Sprinkle remaining nuts over tartlets.

BRIE AND SAFFRON PHYLLO TARTLETS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• On a work surface arrange 1 phyllo sheet with a long side facing you and brush lightly with some butter. Top with a second phyllo sheet and brush lightly with butter. Top with a third phyllo sheet and cut stacked phyllo lengthwise into 4 strips and crosswise into 6 strips to make twenty-four 3-inch squares. With scissors cut off corners of squares to form octagons and cover with plastic wrap.
• Line each mini-muffin cup with 1 phyllo octagon, letting edges curl naturally, and bake in middle of oven until golden brown, about 10 minutes. Carefully transfer shells in cups to racks to cool completely. Make 24 more octagons with remaining 3 phyllo sheets and butter in same manner, Shells may be made 1 week ahead and kept in cups, wrapped in plastic wrap, at room temperature, or 1 month ahead and frozen.
• In a small saucepan simmer cream with saffron until reduced to about 3/4 cup and cool slightly. Whisk in yolks and season with salt and pepper. Divide Brie among shells and spoon 2 teaspoons saffron cream into each shell. Bake tartlets in 2 batches in middle of oven about 8 minutes, or until filling is puffed. Cool tartlets in cups on racks 5 minutes and carefully lift out onto racks to cool completely. Serve tartlets warm or at room temperature.

PHYLLO TARTLETS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°. Heat apple juice and margarine over low heat until margarine is melted. Cover phyllo sheets with waxed paper, then with damp towel to prevent them from drying out as you work. Brush 1 phyllo sheet at a time with apple juice mixture. Fold sheet crosswise into thirds, overlapping the sides cut into 10 pieces. Place pieces in ungreased small muffin cups, 1 3/4x1 inch, making pleats as necessary to fit into cups. Bake 5 to 7 minutes or until brown. Remove from pan to wire rack cool.1 Serving: Calories 80 (Calories from Fat 20) Fat 2g (Saturated 1g) Cholesterol 5mg Sodium 190mg:From "Betty Crocker's Best of Healthy & Hearty Cooking." Text Copyright 1998 General Mills, Inc. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.