Paneer Tart Recipe made using shortcrust pastry and spicy paneer cheese filling. These tarts are delicious on its own as an appetizer.

Mini Paneer Tart

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. How to Make Paneer Tart

2. Tips to get Flaky Shortcrust Pastry

3. Pro Tips

4. Paneer Tart Recipe

5. Paneer Tart with Step by Step Pictures

Paneer tart Recipe

Today's recipe is gonna be a micro mini tart. The things which you need to make this tart is basic short crust pastry. I have the recipe here, check out this link for recipe. But make sure that you leave out the sugar while making the pastry dough.

I stuffed my tart with paneer, but you could do any filling as you wish. I baked this tart in mini tart mould they are readily available in all super markets. But if you couldn’t find that you could use muffin trays or any small bowls. And even you can bake this as a big tart tin and slice into wedges and serve.

Check out my mini chocolate tart and portuguese tart

How to Make Paneer Tart

Preheat the oven to 220°C(450°F).
Make the shortcrust pastry dough as I have mentioned. Please don’t add sugar to it.
First make the filling by heating some oil in a pan. Add in onions and fry till translucent.
In goes chilli powder, garam masala powder and mix well.
Add in the paneer cubes and mix well.Pour in the tomato ketchup and mix well.
Garnish with coriander leaves and set aside.
Roll out the dough into thin sheet and cut pieces that are little bit larger than the tart mould.
Press the tart mould with this dough and trim off the excess dough..
Line all the tart moulds like this..
Add a spoonful of filling in each mould and sprinkle with cheese over it..
Bake it in the oven for 15-18 min or until it turns light golden..
Remove it from the cases and serve warm as appetizers.

Tips to get Flaky Shortcrust Pastry

Once you make the shortcrust pastry dough. fold it two to three times on itself to create more layers. This trick will create more flaky texture in your pastry.

Also make sure your pastry dough is cold when baking.

I always prefer to place the tart tin after it is lined with the pastry in fridge for few hours before baking.

Pro Tips

Reducing the butter quantity will result a hard crust. So use butter as mentioned.
Don't over knead the dough, else the gluten will develop in the dough which results in chewy crust.
Use cold water for kneading the dough and cold butter, this will give flaky crust.
This dough has a little more sugar, this dough is best for making sweet filling pies or any sweet preparations.
If you are making it for savoury don't use the sugar.
Refrigerate Shortcrust pastry dough for at least 1 to 2 hours.
Make sure your pastry dough is cold when baking.

So please make this and let me know what you think.

If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can.

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Paneer Tart with Step by Step Pictures

Grab your ingredients

Saute onions in oil

add some chilli powder

and some garam masala powder

now add in finely chopped paneer pieces

and some ketchup

add lots of cilantro

Mix everything together

Done.

Take your shortcrust pastry dough

and cut it with your mould

perfect

press that in your mould

all beautifully done.

add your filling

sprinkle with cheese

arrange it in a tray

bake it in oven

SERVE

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This post is originally published on 2011.

Comments

Vimitha Anand

July 23, 2011 at 2:33 pm

Perfect looking starters for any time...

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yummylittlecooks

July 23, 2011 at 2:58 pm

wah, looks so tasty, yum yum...:)

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Pilar

July 23, 2011 at 3:52 pm

Soy la primera en felicitarte por esta magnífica receta.
¡ Riquísima!

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TeRe

July 23, 2011 at 3:54 pm

Que mini-tartaletas más ricas Aarthi!:D

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Hari Chandana

July 23, 2011 at 4:52 pm

Wow.. looks super delicious and perfect.. thanks for sharing dear.. gr8 job !!
Indian Cuisine

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Las Tres C

July 23, 2011 at 5:22 pm

Se ven buenisimas, y el paso a paso muy bien explicado, besicos

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shooting star

July 23, 2011 at 5:24 pm

interesting recipe...my problem is that am not able to find tart tins, muffin baking trays and parchments in my city...maybe i dont know where to look..but its put a stop to my baking spree......
if ur from delhi, do lemme know where exactly i can find it(with name of market and shop!!)..

http://sushmita-smile.blogspot.com/

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Now Serving

July 23, 2011 at 8:07 pm

loving this - I made a similar tart not too long ago! As i said on FB, Would love a bite 🙂

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são33

July 23, 2011 at 9:01 pm

ESSAS MINI TARTES FICARAM BEM LINDAS E ACREDITO QUE BEM DELICIOSAS, GOSTEI IMENSO.
BOM FIM DE SEMANA
BJS

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LA COCINERA DE BETULO

July 23, 2011 at 9:36 pm

Unas tartaletas muy buenas.
Besos.

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Carolina

July 23, 2011 at 10:26 pm

This is a delicious starter.
Kisses

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Torviewtoronto

July 24, 2011 at 4:16 am

flavourful snacks deliciously presented

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FOODILICIOUS

July 24, 2011 at 11:36 am

wow..these r perfect starters!!

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Krithi's Kitchen

July 24, 2011 at 1:42 pm

Lovely tarts. simply delicious.

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Mijú

July 24, 2011 at 3:42 pm

Me gusta ese queso Indio.
Te quedaron muy bien.
Un saludito

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Maria Pilar-COCINICA

July 24, 2011 at 6:25 pm

Que buenos, me encantan los pastelitos especiados.

Feliz verano

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Sharmilee! :)

July 25, 2011 at 5:05 am

Very inviting paneer tarts

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Kalpana Sareesh

July 25, 2011 at 7:10 am

perfect party dish..

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jeyashrisuresh

July 25, 2011 at 1:42 pm

very interesting tarts and kids friendly too

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Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal

July 25, 2011 at 6:14 pm

Yum, that looks super delicious and what a great idea !!!

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Cool Lassi(e)

July 25, 2011 at 8:33 pm

Tart looks good enough to gobble!

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Srivalli

July 26, 2011 at 7:56 am

That's looking so wonderful..I can think of so many other filling too..:)

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Rujuta

July 29, 2011 at 12:45 pm

Paneer is my all time fav....
Will try this out...
They look so tempting and delicious..
Now following ur blog...
Happy Blogging
Rujuta
http://theworldaccordingtorujuta.blogspot.com/

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Mother Rimmy

August 07, 2011 at 5:02 pm

I love these tarts. I bet they were gone in a flash!

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Pro Tips

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Paneer Tart with Step by Step Pictures

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How to Make Paneer Tart

Tips to get Flaky Shortcrust Pastry

Pro Tips

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