Blueberry Tartlets

I love food that is bite sized. It is so easy to eat such food. I completely enjoy eating them. More over they look so fascinating. Blueberries look very pretty and their color looks very attractive. They are not very easily available in India more over the frozen ones available are quite expensive (I bought them for Rs. 900/ kg) Blueberry pie filling cans are easily available (American Garden Blueberry Topping is easily available in stores which keep imported ingredients). They can be used instead of blueberries. Making tarts is superrrrr easy. You just CANNOT go wrong with one. Follow the steps as they are mentioned. This is a standard recipe for the tart and can be used for other recipes as well where you wanna use other toppings and fillings. 

INGREDIENTS

SHORTCRUST PASTRY - TART
Refined flour - 2 cups
Butter (at room temperature) - 3/4th to 1 cup
Powdered sugar - 1/4th to 1/2 cup (as per sweetness desired)
Milk - for binding if required


FILLING


Ganache
Dark chocolate - 50g
Milk/ Fresh cream - 100g


Cream - yoghurt filling
Hung curd - 1/2 cup
Whipping cream - 1/2 cup
Icing sugar - As per sweetness desired


BLUEBERRY SAUCE
Blueberries - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup


METHOD


TART
1) Cream the butter and the powdered sugar till light and creamy.

2) Mix the flour with the creamed butter just with your fingers till it resembles breadcrumbs.
3) Add a little milk to bind the mixture if you feel it is too crumbly.
4) Take a tart mould and line it with the short mixture on the edges and the base.
5) Bake in a pre - heated oven for about 10 minutes at 180 degrees C
6) Remove from oven and let cool till it hardens and only then remove from the tart mould


FILLING


Ganache - This method is a cheat method for making a ganache :P
1) Temper chocolate on a double boiler till it completely melts.
2) Just add the milk / cream and whisk vigorously till smooth. As you do this, the color will darken and the chocolate will thicken eventually.


Cream - yoghurt filling
1) Beat the whipping cream and the sugar till it forms soft peaks. 
2) Add the hung curd and beat till smooth. You can flavour your curd with lemon if you like.


BLUEBERRY SAUCE
1) In a saucepan, add the blueberries and the sugar.
2) The sugar will start melting and the blueberries will ooze out some water.
3) The blueberries will soften and cook till you get a thick sauce.


Take the cooled tarts, spoon some thick ganache and then add the cream - yoghurt filling. Finally top with blueberry sauce and some blueberries and mint and serve witha SMILEEEE :D

This one looks so beautiful :)