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Seafood Tarts

Here's how you make Seafood Tarts
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  • Servings: 16
  • Prep: 40m
  • Cook: 20m
  • The following recipe serves 16 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour (plain)
  • 150 grams butter, chilled and chopped
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon water (iced)
  • 2 tablespoons light olive oil
  • 1 celery stalk, finely chopped
  • 2 green onions, thinly sliced
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 2/3 cup cream
  • 1 lemon, whole (zest, finely grated and juiced)
  • 250 grams fresh shrimp (uncooked prawns, peeled, deveined and halved lengthwise)
  • 350 grams smoked trout fish (hot smoked rainbow trout, skin removed and flaked)
  • 1/4 cup finely chopped chives
  • Dill sprigs, to serve
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Place flour and butter in a food processor and pulse to form coarse crumbs and then add egg yolks and the iced water and pulse until dough comes together.

  • Step 2: Turn out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead briefly and the divide dough into 2 equal portions and shape each portion into a disc and then wrap separately in plastic food wrap and chill for 30 minutes.

  • Step 3: Preheat oven to 200C/180C fan forced.

  • Step 4: Place 8 x 16cm (base measurement) fluted tart pans on 2 baking trays.

  • Step 5: Roll pasty portion out between 2 sheets of baking paper until 5mm thick and using a 9cm round cookie cutter, cut out 8 discs from each portion of pastry to make 16 pastry cases in total.

  • Step 6: Line prepared pans with pastry and then line pastry with baking paper and cover bases with dried beans, rice or pie weights and bake for 5 minutes and then remove weights and paper and bake for further 210 minutes or until just coloured and let cool in pans and then transfer to a wire rack.

  • Step 7: Heat oil in a large frying pan over moderate heat and cook and stir celery, onion and garlic for 2 minutes or until just tender.

  • Step 8: Stir in cream, zest and juice and bring to a simmer and then reduce heat and add the prawns and simmer for 3 minutes or until prawns curl and change colour.

  • Step 9: Remove from heat and stir in trout and chives.

  • Step 10: Place pastry cases on a platter and fill with seafood mixture and served topped with dill sprigs.


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