Cheese-free pans - general cooking principles
Cheesecakes - the dish is delicious, satisfying and healthy! If you like cottage cheese, then cheesecakes can not you not like it. Mandatory ingredients are cottage cheese, egg and flour. But what if there was no flour at home or you are on a protein diet, on which carbohydrates like flour are prohibited? In this case, you can cook great cheesecakes without flour! Do not be confused by the absence of such an important component - believe that the cheesecakes will turn out anyway!
Cheesecakes without flour - preparing food and dishes
If you decide to cook cheesecakes without flour, it is important to responsibly approach the purchase of cottage cheese. First of all, immediately note that the cottage cheese with fat content above 10% will not work - it is very juicy, and since there will be no flour, the whey from the curd will have no place to go. Get the best low-fat cheese or cottage cheese with a small percentage of fat. In addition, the curd for cheesecakes without flour should be of a uniform consistency, not granular, without lumps. If the cheese you are cooking from is not uniform, mash it with a fork or chop it with a blender. But about the freshness is not so important. Of course, cheese curds from fresh cottage cheese will be the most delicious, but stale cheese can be safely used. If the cheese is very sour, you can cook cheesecakes in the oven.
How to do without flour? There are several options. The first and most common is to use corn starch instead of flour. Please note that you need exactly corn, and not so common potato! Such starch is allowed on the Dukan diet and on protein-based dietary methods for weight loss.
The second option is the use of oat bran. This product, if crushed in a coffee grinder, resembles flour, but unlike the latter, is useful, contains fiber and insoluble fiber. Include a spoonful of oat bran in your daily diet and be healthy. But since they themselves are not very tasty, the cheesecakes with this component are an excellent way out of the situation. In addition, you can put in the cheese semolina. Such a trick will make cheesecakes more satisfying and will definitely not allow them to fall apart.
Recipes cheesecakes without flour:
Recipe 1: Cheesecakes without flour with semolina
Try experimentally cooking cheesecakes without flour, and you will realize that this is possible! To make a special taste for cheesecakes, add a little condensed milk to the dough.
Ingredients Required:
- Egg 1 piece (medium size)
- Cottage cheese 220-250 grams (1 pack)
- Condensed milk 1 tablespoon
- Semolina 1.5 tablespoons
- Sugar powder 2 tablespoons
- Salt
- Vanilla
- Soda hydrated with lemon juice
- Vegetable oil (for frying)
Preparation Method:
- Mix cheese with condensed milk, semolina, powdered sugar, egg yolk, vanilla and salt. Let the mixture stand for 15-18 minutes. This time is necessary in order for the semolina in the dough to swell and absorb moisture from the cheese.
- Whip the egg white with a blender or mixer, add a little salt and add the resulting foam to the curd dough. Add there also soda, slaked with lemon juice or vinegar.
- Heat the frying pan, in which you will fry cheesecakes, and oil it well with oil.
- With a spoon or with wet hands, take the dough and spread it in small portions, the size of a chestnut, in a frying pan. Fry for 5-6 minutes on each side.
Recipe 2: Oatmeal-Free Cheesecakes
The Dukan diet, which is fashionable for today, involves the inclusion of a large amount of protein in the diet and the almost complete rejection of the flour. However, cheesecakes, cooked according to this recipe, exactly belong to the permitted on the diet dishes. We will cook them without sugar, but it is possible to make a non-calorie sweet treat by putting a sugar substitute tablet into the dough.
Ingredients Required:
- Cottage cheese 1 pack (220-250 grams) skim
- Oat bran 1.5 tablespoons
- Egg whites 3 pieces
- Salt
- Fresh dill
- Vegetable oil for frying
Preparation Method:
- With the help of a coffee grinder, the bran must be ground into flour. If you do not have a coffee grinder, you can put them as a whole, but in this case put one egg yolk in the dough.
- Make the dough for bran syrup without flour. To do this, mix all the ingredients - low fat cottage cheese, bran, whipped egg whites. If it seems to you that the dough turns out to be watery, add one egg yolk. However, keep in mind that for this recipe, the dough has a special watery consistency.
- Dill wash and chop finely. Add to the dough with a pinch of salt.
- Heat the pan and grease it with oil. Using a spoon, spread the dough and fry the cheesecakes for 4 minutes on each side over low heat.
Recipe 3: Cheesecakes without flour with starch
Another variant of tasty cheesecakes without flour is syrnichki with starch. An uncomplicated recipe that does not take you much time, like lovers of unusual dishes.
Ingredients Required:
- Cottage cheese 220-250 grams (1 pack)
- Corn starch 1.5 tablespoons
- Powdered milk 1 tablespoon
- Chicken Egg 1 piece
- Sugar 3 tablespoons
- Salt
- Vegetable oil
Preparation Method:
- Combine cheese, starch, milk powder, sugar and egg yolk. Set aside the dough for 10 minutes, and at this time, beat the protein with salt.
- Add protein foam to the dough, mix gently.
- Heat the pan and grease with oil.
- With a damp spoon, take the dough and place it in the pan. Fry cheesecakes for 6-7 minutes on each side on low heat.
Recipe 4: Cheesecakes without flour and raisins
Very tasty cheesecakes without flour, but with raisins. Remember that the more such a sweet additive, the tastier the finished product!
Ingredients Required:
- Cottage cheese 220-250 grams
- Raisin 100 grams
- Egg 1 piece
- Semolina 2 tablespoons
- Sugar
- Salt
- Baking powder for dough 6 grams
- Vegetable oil
Preparation Method:
- Prepare the raisins. To do this, you need to pour boiling water for 15-20 minutes before the dough.
- Combine cottage cheese (use fat-free for this recipe), semolina, salt, egg yolk, baking powder for dough, sugar. Dough should stand for 10-15 minutes.
- Egg white must be whipped with a small amount of salt until frothy. Enter the foam in the dough, add the raisins.
- Heat the pan and spread a little cheesecake on the surface with a damp spoon. Fry for 5-7 minutes on each side.
Cheesecakes without flour - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- Cheesecakes get tastier when cooked under a domed lid. They are well steamed and juicy. Especially it concerns those cheesecakes, in the recipe of which semolina is used.
- Add a piece of butter to the cheesecake dough so they will not stick during the frying process.
- Vanilla, cinnamon, rum essence - delicious aromas will make the products much more appetizing.
- Add tasty “bonuses like dried berries, sliced dried fruits, fresh apples and bananas to cheesecakes without flour.
- A cocoa spoon in the recipe will turn ordinary cheesecakes into chocolate ones. Serve this dish with condensed milk or cream.
- It is very important that the cottage cheese for cheesecakes without flour is not very moist, that is, not fat. If the cheese is too juicy, compensate for this with a large amount of dry ingredient - semolina, starch or oat bran.
