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Shrimp and Goat Cheese Tarts

Shrimp and Goat Cheese Tarts

Use our Cream Cheese Pastry to make these delicate hors d’oeuvres. They’re filled with a creamy blend of basil, cooked shrimp and goat cheese.

Cook time

20 mins

Recipe Difficulty

Medium

Yield

Makes 48

Ingredients

Shrimp and Goat Cheese Tarts

  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup light cream (10%)
  • 1 tsp basil, crumbled
  • 1/8 tsp hot pepper sauce
  • 1 1/3 cups chopped cooked small shrimp
  • 5 oz (150 g) soft goat cheese, crumbled
  • 48 tart shells from Cream Cheese Pastry

Cream Cheese Pastry

  • 1 cup salted butter, softened
  • 8 oz (250 g) cream cheese, softened
  • 2 tbsp milk (2%)
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Directions

Shrimp and Goat Cheese Tarts

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
  2. To prepare filling, whisk together eggs, cream, basil and hot pepper sauce until blended. Stir in shrimp and cheese. Spoon a scant 2 tsp of filling into each tart shell.
  3. Bake until filling is set and pastry is golden, about 20 minutes. Cool in pans for 5 minutes. Serve warm. Baked tarts may be cooled completely and frozen for up to 1 month.

Cream Cheese Pastry

  1. Place butter, cream cheese and milk in a food processor. Process until well blended. Add flour and salt. Process, using an on/off motion, just until mixture starts to come together.
  2. Gather dough into a ball. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours or until firm.
  3. Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Press each ball into a mini muffin cup to form a tart shell.

Nutritional analysis per serving

*Ingredient not included in nutritional analysis.

100 calories, 7.4 g fat, 2.9 g protein, 5.5 g carbohydrate, 0.4 g fibre, 92 mg sodium