Cottage cheese is one of the most useful products. It contains a lot of calcium, protein and other elements that the body needs at any age, especially in children. However, in its pure form, children eat it reluctantly. We have to cook for them from the cheese all sorts of desserts. One of the easiest to prepare, but at the same time delicious and healthy dishes from this product is cottage cheese casserole. It is tasty enough to be perceived as a delicacy, and nourishing, so that it can be made for breakfast or dinner. The presence of a huge number of recipes for this dish allows you to choose the option for every taste and diversify the family menu.
Cooking Features
There is no canonical recipe for cottage cheese casserole. It consists of cottage cheese, sugar, eggs, flour or semolina, can be added fresh or dried fruit, berries, other fillers and natural flavors. The ratio of these products is determined by the cook himself. However, there are several rules, adhering to which the hostess is more likely to get the best result.
- The taste of the casserole directly depends on the quality of the curd. It should be fresh and natural, not too wet, but not dry. Curd products containing vegetable fats, sweeteners and other ingredients are not recommended for making homemade casseroles.
- In order for the casserole to have a delicate and homogeneous consistency, the cottage cheese must be rubbed through a sieve before cooking. In some recipes you can find recommendations to turn the curd through a meat grinder, but such advice should not be followed: as a result of turning the meat through a grinder, the curd becomes sticky and heavy, which negatively affects the consistency of the finished dish.
- Most recipes for cottage cheese casseroles use eggs. They are needed to make the curd base more dense. However, if you add a lot of eggs, the casserole will come out hard and tasteless. The recommended ratio of eggs and cottage cheese is 1 egg per 200-250 g of cottage cheese.
- To increase the density, flour or semolina is also added to the curd bed. For 200-250 g of cottage cheese it is enough to put 1-2 spoons of these products, but sometimes they put more.
- For a more delicate and juicy casserole, sour cream or other dairy products may be added to it. Sometimes milk is included in the food.
- It is recommended to pour manka before adding to the curd mass with water or milk, so that it swells. If this has not been done, then it is given the opportunity to swell in the dough, and only then it is laid out in a form and sent to the oven.
- If you want the casserole to turn out to be airy, the whites are whipped separately from the yolks and only after they are introduced into the curd dough.
- For fluffy baking powder is sometimes put in the dough for the curd casserole. If it is soda, then it is not necessary to quench it before adding to the dough, but it is only suitable for casserole on flour. If you add semolina, use a ready baking powder.
- Casserole on semolina turns out a little less high-calorie than on flour. The energy value of the finished dish also depends on the fat content of the used cottage cheese, on the amount of added sugar and other fillers.
- If you put dried fruits in a casserole, you need to soak them in hot water for 10 minutes, otherwise they may be tough and spoil the taste of the finished dish.
They serve cottage cheese casserole, usually warm, watering sour cream. Sour cream can be replaced with natural or fruit yogurt, condensed milk, confiture, syrup. Often, the casserole is decorated with fresh berries, pieces of canned fruit, and marmalade. If the casserole is cold - it does not matter: it will still be tasty.
Simple recipe for cottage cheese casserole
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 1 kg;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- semolina - 100 g;
- vanilla sugar - 5 g;
- sugar - 150-200 g;
- butter - 20-30 g.
Method of preparation:
- Curd the curd through a sieve.
- Break eggs into a bowl, add sugar to them, grind.
- Add the curd. Stir to form a homogeneous mass.
- Pour in semolina and vanilla sugar, stir again. Leave on for 20-30 minutes to give the semolina time to swell.
- Grease with melted butter.
- Lay out curd mass. Smooth it with a spoon.
- Heat oven to 180 degrees. Put the form in it with a future casserole.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes.
Before serving, the casserole should be removed from the mold, put on a dish. If you serve it in portions, you can cut it into pieces right in the shape, it will be easier to take out the dish in pieces than in whole.
Airy cottage cheese casserole with sour cream
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 6 kg;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- semolina - 75 g;
- vanillin - a pinch;
- sugar - 150 g;
- sour cream - 120 ml;
- butter - as needed.
Method of preparation:
- Manka mix with sour cream. Leave it for 10-15 minutes.
- Divide the eggs into yolks and squirrels.
- Combine yolks with curd, pre-rubbing it through a sieve. Grind to obtain a homogeneous composition.
- Add sugar and semolina swollen in sour cream, add vanillin. Mix well or whisk with a mixer.
- Separately whip the whites, mix them with the bulk. Stir proteins recommended vertical movements, without the use of a mixer.
- Grease the form, put the dough in it.
- Place the form in an oven preheated to 190 degrees and bake the casserole for 45 minutes, then leave it in the oven for 15 minutes so that the casserole keeps it pomp.
This gentle and airy casserole will almost certainly be enjoyed by you and your household.
Cottage cheese casserole with flour and butter
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 5 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- sugar - 0, 2 kg;
- salt - a pinch;
- vanillin - a pinch;
- flour - 100 g;
- milk - 100 ml;
- butter - 50 g (not counting the consumption of lubrication form).
Method of preparation:
- Combine the eggs with sugar, whisk together.
- Melt butter, mix with warm, but not hot milk.
- Continuing to beat the eggs, enter the milk mixed with the butter.
- Add vanillin and salt, whisk again.
- Add cottage cheese, stir until a homogeneous consistency.
- Enter the flour. Beat or stir the curd so that there are no lumps in it.
- Grease the form.
- Heat oven to 180 degrees.
- Fill the form with curd mass, put in the oven for 40-45 minutes.
Gourmets say that the taste of the casserole prepared according to this recipe is similar to the taste of the one they do in kindergarten.
Dietary cottage cheese casserole with bran and honey
Composition:
- low-fat cottage cheese - 0, 35 kg;
- oat bran - 30 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- unsweetened yogurt - 40 ml;
- honey - 20 ml;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- apple - 0, 2 kg.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the apple, dry it with a napkin. Cut the core out of the fruit. Cut the apple in half. One half cut into neat slices, sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Peel the second half of the apple and cut it into small cubes.
- Chop the bran in a coffee grinder to a state of powder, rub it with curd.
- Add eggs, whisk until smooth.
- Pour in the honey, pre-melt it to a liquid state, whisk again.
- Mix small pieces of apple into the curd mass. This should be done with a spoon or spatula, without using a mixer.
- Put the curd mass in a silicone mold - it is not necessary to oil it.
- Lubricate the curd mass with yogurt. Spread apple slices on top.
- Send the form with curd mass to the oven preheated to 200 degrees and bake for 20-30 minutes.
Even the dieters can afford the curd dessert prepared according to this recipe.
Fluffy cottage cheese casserole (with addition of baking powder)
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 5 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- semolina - 0, 25 kg;
- salt - a pinch;
- vanillin - a pinch;
- sweet yogurt - 125 ml;
- butter - 100 g (not counting the consumption for lubrication of the form);
- baking powder for dough - 7 g.
Method of preparation:
- Mix the semolina with yogurt, leave for 10-15 minutes.
- Melt the butter, let it cool slightly.
- In the bowl, break the eggs, whisk them.
- Pour oil into the eggs, add salt, vanillin and baking powder. Whisk it all together.
- Add the curd. Stir with a spoon, then work with a mixer.
- Add semolina, mix thoroughly.
- Leave the dough for 10-15 minutes.
- Fill a lubricated form with dough. Put it in an oven preheated to 180 degrees, bake for 35-40 minutes.
Casserole made with this recipe is savory, so it is best served with syrup or condensed milk. You can pour fruit yogurt.
Cottage cheese casserole with raisins (classic recipe)
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 5 kg;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- sugar - 60 g;
- semolina - 50 g;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- butter - 20 g;
- salt - at the tip of a knife;
- vanillin (optional) - at the tip of the knife;
- raisins - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Pour boiling water over raisins; after 10 minutes, drain the water. Squeeze dried fruits.
- Mix the semolina with sour cream in the amount of 50-60 ml, leave for 10 minutes.
- Beat eggs with sugar and salt.
- Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, combine with the eggs, pound.
- Add semolina with sour cream, in which it swells, add vanilla. Stir until a homogeneous mass.
- Add raisins. Mix well to evenly distribute.
- Melt the butter, grease it.
- Put the curd into shape, smooth it. Smear the remaining sour cream.
- Place the form in an oven heated to 180 degrees and bake the curd mixture for 40-45 minutes.
The raisins in this recipe can be replaced with other dried fruits. Dried apricots, prunes and other large-sized fruits should be cut before adding to the curd mass.
Unusual cottage cheese casserole with mushrooms
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 4 kg;
- cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- fresh champignons - 0, 4 kg;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- onions - 0, 2 kg;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- vegetable oil - as needed;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Mix cottage cheese with sour cream. Add eggs, rub until smooth.
- Add grated cheese, salt, pepper, mix well.
- Wash the champignons, pat dry with a kitchen towel, cut into small cubes.
- Onion, freeing from the husk, finely chopped.
- Heat the oil in a pan, put the onions and mushrooms in it, fry until the moisture released from the mushrooms evaporates.
- Give the mushrooms a chance to cool, stir them into the curd mass.
- Put cottage cheese with mushrooms in a greased form, put it in an oven heated to 180 degrees and bake for 45 minutes.
It is recommended to serve cottage cheese casserole prepared according to this recipe with sour cream or mushroom sauce. She will like even those who do not like sweets.
Curd casserole - a versatile dish. It can be a snack or dessert, a treat for tea or a full breakfast. Preparing this dish is easy, the task is within the power of the beginning mistress
