Cottage cheese cookies - general principles and methods of cooking
Baking from cottage cheese is loved by many! Even those who do not tolerate cottage cheese in their pure form will be happy to eat curd sweets for both cheeks. Cottage cheese is generally a very convenient product from the point of view of cooking. It can be used for the preparation of both sweet (dessert) and salty foods, but in the confectionery industry there is simply no price for it!
Cottage cheese gives any product pomp, tenderness and unusually bright taste. In addition, it is a real "piggy bank" of valuable proteins, vitamins and many minerals. And it is not surprising why it is often used to make cookies. Sometimes it is so difficult to combine two concepts in sweet baking - tasty and healthy, but curd biscuits are such.
Many kids do not like cottage cheese, but they will fall in love with cookies with the content of this valuable product from the first piece. A good option to combine tasty and healthy. There are an incredible number of recipes for curd biscuits, like other types of baking. We will acquaint you with some of them in the framework of the article. It is not necessary to be a great pastry chef to cook delicate products, every hostess can master them.
Cottage Cheese Cookies - Food Preparation
Depending on the milk from which the curd is prepared, it can have a different texture, structure, taste and percentage of fat. The most easily digestible is granulated cottage cheese, and fat cottage cheese has the most pronounced taste properties. However, it is not necessary to add it to pastries, if you carefully watch your figure, you can do well with a product containing minimal amount of fat.
No less important point on which to focus attention when buying - it is the color and smell of sour-milk products. The color of fresh, high-quality cottage cheese should vary from snow-white to light cream shade. Gray and bluish colors speak of poor quality products. The smell should not be too sour and repulsive. First-class cottage cheese smells very nice. Before cooking cottage cheese cookies, it is desirable to rub through a sieve to crush all the small grains. In addition to it, we are more likely to need: sugar, butter (margarine), chicken eggs and high-grade flour. To learn more detailed list of ingredients, you should familiarize yourself with the proposed recipes.
Cottage cheese cookies - the best recipes
Recipe 1: Homemade cottage cheese cookies
The basic recipe for cottage cheese cookies is quite simple, but it turns out very tasty, tender and airy. The perfect complement to lunchtime tea. So, to make cookies for this simple recipe, you will need about an hour of time and a minimum amount of ingredients.
Ingredients:
- medium-fat cottage cheese 250 gr.
- Butter (margarine for baking) 250 gr.
- Wheat flour B / C 300 gr.
- three eggs
- 150-200 gr. fine sugar
- half tea l. soda (extinguish with acetic acid)
- vanilla
Method of preparation:
1. Oil use frozen. Pour the sifted flour into the container, grate the butter on top. After that, using a kitchen knife, chop up the mass until it turns into a fine crumb.
2. Next to the resulting basis add ground cheese, slaked soda and vanilla. Quickly mix and let the mass stand for about ten minutes. Then on the table (or board) we knead the soft dough, cover it with foil and put it into the cold for ten minutes.
3. After the dough has cooled, cut it into three parts. From each roll a layer of average thickness (about 5 mm). With the help of a glass we cut out even round flat cakes.
4. Beat eggs with a fork (slightly). Pour sugar into a separate container. We take one tortilla, dip it on one side, first into the egg mass, and then into the sugar. We fold it in half, then also dip one side and fold it again in half. Thus, we have a folded triangle, the inside of which is covered with a mixture of eggs and sugar. We turn off all available cakes. 5. Heat the oven to 170-180C, cookies - on a greased baking sheet and in the oven for 25 minutes. Finished products can be sprinkled with powdered, grated chocolate and other confectionery additions that enhance the taste.
Recipe 2: Cookies of Curd Curd
“Pinwheels” from cottage cheese are also easy to prepare and do not require wasting a large amount of food and time. We will make the dough only by hand (without the help of a blender), otherwise the product will eventually lose its shape. Chicken eggs are not put into “Pinwheels”, but the peel is added, due to which the cookie has a pleasant citrus taste and aroma.
Ingredients:
- 200 gr. cottage cheese
- Butter about 200 gr.
- 200 gr. flour
- 200 gr. fine sugar (two thirds cup)
- half tsp of soda (to extinguish in acid)
- one spoon (tea) lemon rind
- half a cup of ground nuts
- any berry syrup to choose from
Method of preparation:
1. Pound the curd through a sieve, mix with fine sugar. Grate lemon zest, add it to the curd. Soft oil, pre-melted at room temperature, also mix with the mass until smooth. Here we send slaked soda.
2. Sift flour and pour into the cottage cheese mixture, starting a steep plastic dough. Pounded nuts mixed with berry syrup.
3. Pinch off a piece of dough, roll it into a ball and roll out on a cutting board, sprinkled with sugar, a thin layer. Next, damn the top we coat the nut-syrup mixture. Then radially (from the center to the edge) we cut it into as many strips as we turn into tubes. We repeat this kind of manipulation until the whole dough is finished.
4. The resulting turntables are baked in an oven preheated to 180C until golden brown. Cookies turned out matchless, crunchy and very fragrant.
Recipe 3: Cottage cheese cookies with cheese and chocolate
Incredibly tender to the taste cookies are obtained! Cheese for its preparation, it is advisable to purchase hard and certainly unsalted. As for chocolate, here you can do in two ways: melt the tile at the end and decorate the top of the cookie at your discretion, or, melt it, cover the whole chocolate with the cookie. Ingredients (approximately 20 pieces):
- 150 gr. butter
- 100 gr. medium-fat cottage cheese
- 100 gr. cheese
- one egg
- one and a half glasses of flour (or a little more)
- about 150 gr. dark chocolate
- half tea l. soda (to extinguish in acetic / citric acid)
- sugar 150 gr.
- vegetable oil (grease pan)
Method of preparation:
1. Mix the thawed butter with curd wiped through a sieve and fine sugar. Separately, we add unsalted cheese (the smaller, the better), mix it with slaked soda and sifted flour twice.
2. We combine cheese and flour and curd mass. Knead plastic rather steep dough. Remove it, covered with cling film, for half an hour in the fridge.
3. Then we get, divide into two parts, of which we roll out pancakes with a thickness of about five millimeters. With the help of glass we cut the cakes. One side of each flat cake is greased with a slightly beaten egg and sprinkled with sugar. Fold the cake in half, and then again (as described in the first recipe).
4. Send the cookies to the preheated oven for half an hour. While it is baked, we melt dark chocolate in a water bath and decorate the finished products at our discretion.
Recipe 4: Cottage cheese cookies with sour cream
Cottage cheese cookies with sour cream for tea is prepared very easily and quickly, it turns out very nourishing, crispy and tasty. Superbly tender pastries to any tea!
Ingredients:
- two table. Spoons (no slides) sour cream
- 250 gr. cottage cheese
- powdered sugar
- one egg white and one egg yolk separately
- at the tip of a citric acid knife
- half package of vanillin
- half tsp of soda
- 200 gr. wheat flour
- about 100 grams. sugar (can be a little less or more)
- 100 gr. cream margarine for baking
Method of preparation:
1. Mix the softened creamy margarine with the yolk, ground with sugar. Mass whip mixer. Curd wipe and mix with sour cream. Mix both basics. Next, pour curd, vanillin and baking soda into curd and creamy mass. 2. Knead not too steep dough. Remove the dough for 20 minutes in the cold, covered with foil. Then we get, roll out the layer and with the help of molds for cookies we begin to cut (shape) the product.
3. Put them on a greased baking sheet. Separately, beat the protein with citric acid and sugar. The resulting meringue grease on top of each product. Then send them to the red-hot oven until ready, for 25-35 minutes. Cookies ready, enjoy all tea!
Cottage Cheese Cookies - useful tips from experienced chefs
- Before you start a light curd dough for biscuits, do not forget to sift the wheat flour. It is better to do it twice, so that the flour is saturated with oxygen. In the end, this will have a positive effect on the structure of products;
- Before sending the cookies from the curd to the oven, brush on top of it with a raw, slightly beaten egg, if it is, of course, not covered with meringue or any other pastry ingredients.
