Shrimp and Cheese Tartlets
Wow your guests with this simple but delicious appetizer! These shrimp tartlets taste absolutely incredible. They look beautiful on a party table, lighten up and round out almost any spread, and make a great nibble alongside drinks.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make these tartlets? Gather your ingredients. Use store-bought tartlet shells or make your own from any recipe you like — shortcrust or puff, it's up to you. To save yourself the work of cleaning shrimp, buy them already peeled. Any cheese works: soft, hard, or semi-firm.
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Step 2:
Boil the shrimp in water until cooked, following the directions on the package. I added ½ tsp of salt and a slice of lemon to the water for flavor.
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Step 3:
Drain the cooked shrimp in a colander and peel them if needed. Finely chop the peeled shrimp. You could also blend the shrimp into a smooth, creamy, pâté-like paste — I didn't.
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Step 4:
Grate the cheese on the medium side of a grater. Press the garlic through a garlic press.
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Step 5:
In a bowl, combine the chopped shrimp, grated cheese, and minced garlic.
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Step 6:
Dress the mixture with mayonnaise — homemade is best.
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Step 7:
Mix everything well. If it's too stiff, add a little more mayonnaise until it reaches the consistency you want.
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Step 8:
Spoon the filling into the tartlet shells. Garnish the tartlets with whole shrimp, red caviar, and basil leaves, the way I did — or come up with your own presentation. The possibilities are endless.
- These are quite possibly the tastiest tartlets I've made, and I've made plenty with all kinds of fillings. I deliberately didn't blend the shrimp, so their flavor would come through more clearly.
- Beyond the ingredients listed here, you can add others to the shrimp filling to change up or refresh the flavor.
- Homemade mayonnaise is the way to go — it tastes better and is healthier. See our collection of homemade mayonnaise recipes. You can also use sour cream or plain yogurt instead, either on their own or blended with mayonnaise in any ratio you like — that'll cut the calories.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Canned shrimp - 81 kcal/100g
- Boiled shrimp - 95 kcal/100g
- Shrimps peeled frozen - 60 kcal/100g
- Fresh shrimp - 97 kcal/100g
- Dutch cheese - 352 kcal/100g
- Swiss cheese - 335 kcal/100g
- Russian cheese - 366 kcal/100g
- Kostroma cheese - 345 kcal/100g
- Yaroslavsky cheese - 361 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356 kcal/100g
- Soviet cheese - 400 kcal/100g
- Cheese 'steppe' - 362 kcal/100g
- Uglich cheese - 347 kcal/100g
- Poshekhonsky cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Lambert cheese - 377 kcal/100g
- Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400 kcal/100g
- Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363 kcal/100g
- Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395 kcal/100g
- Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420 kcal/100g
- Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356 kcal/100g
- Aiadeus cheese - 364 kcal/100g
- Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360 kcal/100g
- Cheese 'lo spalmino' - 61 kcal/100g
- Cheese 'etorki' (sheep, hard) - 401 kcal/100g
- White cheese - 100 kcal/100g
- Fat yellow cheese - 260 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Kaunas cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Latvian cheese - 316 kcal/100g
- Limburger cheese - 327 kcal/100g
- Lithuanian cheese - 250 kcal/100g
- Lake cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Gruyere cheese - 396 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Fresh basil - 27 kcal/100g
- Dried basil - 251 kcal/100g
- Salad mayonnaise of 50% fat content - 502 kcal/100g
- Light mayonnaise - 260 kcal/100g
- Provencal Mayonnaise - 624 kcal/100g
- Provencal mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Table mayonnaise - 627 kcal/100g
- Pink salmon caviar grainy - 230 kcal/100g
- Salmon caviar grainy - 245 kcal/100g
- Tartlets - 514 kcal/100g
