Bread and Butter: Mushroom tartelettes

Mushroom tartelettes

Tartelets815_1

This recipe happened only because I had a spare pastry sheet in the fridge. But it was a success so it might become a classic. Where classic means, the food I prepare when I feel insecure and doubt my abilities and want to make something secure.
It takes no time at all, although the pious are going to want to make their own pastry, which I am all for, but we’ll discuss it some other time.

For 6-8 people as a starter

2 eggs

160 gr crumbled feta cheese

400 gr sliced button mushrooms

2-3 tablespoons olive oil

1 sheet puff pastry (if you like puffy things) or 1 sheet shortcrust pastry (if you want less air, more food)

3 spring onions, chopped

Some butter for the baking dish

Salt and pepper

Whisk the eggs and add the feta.
Heat olive oil in a skillet and sautee onions. Add mushrooms and when they are cooked but still al dente, combine in a bowl with the eggs and feta. Sprinkle with pepper. If your feta is very salty don’t add any more salt.
Butter a 12 cup muffin pan (if you have a larger one, you’ll need more pastry and more of everything else) and roll out the pastry. We don’t want the pastry to have holes, so carefully, we press it inside the cups. When we are done, we separate the pastry with a knife, so that each cup is individually lined.
Fill with the mushroom mixture and arrange the extra pastry around, so that it encloses but doesn’t cover the filling. Don’t be too religious about it (as the photo testifies, I wasn’t).
Bake in preheated oven at 180 C/ 350 F/ Gas mark 4 until the pastry looks golden and the filling has set.

Posted by SteviMoshogianni | Permalink

Comments

Hi Stevi - these mushroom & feta tartelettes look really tasty - and I love both mushrooms and feta, so I hope to try them soon!
Lovely blog you have here, and I'm very flattered to be included in your blogroll.
(PS I dated a very cool Greek guy last year, and although we're no longer together, I still cook lots of Greek food. I'll be back to check for some interesting new ideas:)

Posted by: Pille | March 22, 2006 at 04:04 PM