Many of the beneficial properties of cottage cheese are preserved after heat treatment, so casseroles, pancakes, and pies are often made with it. But you can use this product for baking not only in the form of a filling. The dough made from cottage cheese for fried pies turns out to be tender, products made from it have a unique taste and do not get stale for a long time. You can make them with both sweet and savory stuffing. Curd dough is kneaded without the use of yeast, so do not have to wait long for its readiness.
Cooking Features
Even an inexperienced housewife can make the dough out of cottage cheese for pies that will be roasted in a frying pan. This process has its own specifics:
- How tasty the curd dough will turn out depends on the quality of the ingredients. In the shops next to the natural cottage cheese can be found curd product with a significant content of vegetable proteins and fats. It is better to refuse such a product, otherwise the result may be unpredictable.
- Cottage cheese is better to use fresh, otherwise the dough will turn sour.
- Flour quality also matters. From the second-grade products turn grayish, have a specific smell. The difference in price between high-grade flour and second-rate flour is not so great that it makes sense to save on this product.
- Flour must be sieved before use. The purpose of this manipulation is not only to rid the product of small litter and insect larvae, the main task is to saturate the flour with oxygen. After sifting, it becomes easy, it is easier to combine it with other ingredients, preventing the formation of lumps. Products from such flour turn out more gentle and air.
- You should not add a lot of sugar to the dough, otherwise the cakes may fry too much. If you want sweet pies, sugar is better to put in the filling.
- When working with dough, it is desirable to grease the hands with vegetable oil: the dough from the curd is soft and sticky, it will be difficult to work with dry hands.
- Rolling cottage cheese dough is not an easy task, as it turns out not to be too elastic. But roll it and do not need. It is better to form a sausage out of it, cut off pieces from it and crush it with your hands. After that, it remains to put a filling on such a cake and form a pie.
- Fry patties of cottage cheese dough in a hot frying pan in a sufficient amount of vegetable oil. They are put in the frying pan with seams down so that they better maintain integrity.
You can make pie dough from cottage cheese using several recipes.
The classic recipe for cottage cheese dough for fried pies
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 5 kg;
- wheat flour - 0, 35 kg;
- chicken egg - 4 pcs .;
- sugar - 20-40 g;
- salt - a large shchipot;
- soda, extinguished with vinegar - 5 g.
Method of preparation:
- Curd the curd through a sieve.
- Break eggs into a bowl, add sugar and salt. Spread egg mass with a fork or a whisk. As a result, it should brighten.
- Put cottage cheese in a bowl with eggs, blend the products with a blender, turning it into a homogeneous mass.
- Quench the soda with vinegar, add to the resulting mass, mix it well.
- Sift the flour, combine it with the bulk. Knead a smooth, lump-free dough. It may seem too soft and sticky, but it should be so that the cakes turn out to be airy.
- Form a com from the dough, put the bowl with it in the bag. Allow the dough to rest for 30-40 minutes. During this time, the gluten contained in the flour will swell, due to which the dough will become slightly more elastic and pliable.
After a specified time, pieces can be separated from the dough and the cakes can be made from them. If you make them with unsweetened filling, the amount of sugar in the dough can be reduced to 10 g, but you shouldn’t completely exclude it from the recipe.
Cottage cheese dough on kefir for fried pies
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- kefir - 0, 22 l;
- wheat flour - 0, 55 kg;
- sugar - 20 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- soda - 5 g;
- refined vegetable oil - 5 g;
- salt - a pinch.
Method of preparation:
- Cottage cheese, kefir and eggs should be taken out of the refrigerator in advance so that they are at room temperature at the time of preparing the dough.
- Curd cheese through a sieve, mix with kefir. Add soda, mix well.
- In another bowl, sprinkle the eggs with salt and sugar.
- Pour the egg mass to the curd, add butter, mix well or even whisk with a mixer.
- Sift flour. 2, 5-3 cups of flour, pour into a bowl with curd mass. Stir the dough until smooth.
- Pour the remaining flour on the working surface of the table.
- Put the dough on it and knead it with your hands until it absorbs all or almost all the flour.
- Form a ball out of dough, cover it with cling film and leave it for half an hour.
After the specified time, you can begin to form the pies and fry them in a pan.
Cake dough with cottage cheese and butter
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- wheat flour - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- baking powder for dough - 5 g;
- sugar - 20-40 g;
- salt - 2 g;
- butter - 100 g.
Method of preparation:
- Put the butter out of the fridge. Wait until it becomes soft.
- Combine with cottage cheese, rubbed through a sieve, beat them with a blender.
- Add sugar, salt and egg. Beat again with a mixer to obtain a homogeneous composition.
- Combine sifted flour with baking powder.
- Dry mix enter the bulk. Mix the products well.
- Put the dough on a floured board, complete the process of kneading it with your hands.
- Make a bun from the dough, put it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
From this dough you can make pies in the pan and in the oven, but for baking them in the oven of flour in the dough, it is advisable to put 2 more spoons.
Fried pies made from cottage cheese dough are tender and airy. The basis for them can be made according to several recipes, each of which is good in its own way.
