Tartlet of pear and walnut remoulade with smoked salmon and caviar

November 10, 2014 (Last Updated: January 11, 2019)

TO DRINK: A creamy, oaked chenin blanc has both pear and nutty characters, and its richness will complement the creamy remoulade

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Tartlet of pear and walnut remoulade with smoked salmon and caviar

Serves: 12 tartlets
Cooking Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • PASTRY
  • 100g flour
  • 100g butter
  • 15ml (1 tbsp) milk
  • 10g fresh chives and coriander, chopped
  • salt, to taste
  • 1 large egg
  • REMOULADE
  • 250ml (1 cup) mayonnaise
  • 60ml (¼ cup) grainy Dijon mustard
  • 5ml (1 tsp) sweet paprika
  • 5ml (1 tsp) Cajun spice
  • 2ml Tabasco
  • 1 large garlic clove, smashed and minced
  • FILLING
  • 150g smoked salmon
  • 100g (1 cup) walnuts
  • 2 ripe pears
  • black caviar, to garnish
  • coriander sprouts, to garnish

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2

Combine the flour and 50g of butter and rub between your fingers until a crumbly consistency has been reached. Add the milk, herbs, salt and egg and knead until a dough is formed. Use the remaining 50g of butter to grease 12 foil tartlet cases.

3

Roll the dough into 20g balls and press the dough into the tartlet cases. Bake blind in the oven until golden brown, about 15 – 20 minutes. Set aside to cool on a wire rack.

4

Mix all of the ingredients for the remoulade and pipe a little into the bottom of the baked tartlet cases.

5

Thinly slice the smoked salmon and place about 15g on one side.

 

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