Cottage cheese is one of the most useful products. It contains a lot of easily digestible protein, calcium and other elements, vitamins. It is allowed with the most stringent diets, moreover, nutritionists advise to include it in the menu almost daily. This product is especially needed by children. However, every day eating the same dish will not only get tired of the child. Prudent housewives know dozens of cottage cheese dishes that allow you to vary the diet. These include cheese curd pancakes, which are pancakes made from curd, fried in a pan or baked in the oven. There are many cooking options for this dish, almost certainly every gourmet will be able to find a few recipes of curds that will appeal to him.
Cooking Features
Cooking cheesecakes is a fairly simple task that even an inexperienced cook can handle. But for all the housewives they are different. The point is not always in the difference of recipes or in the degree of culinary mastery, often the failure of a few moments is the cause of failures. Focusing on the recommendations of experienced chefs, cook delicious and lush cheesecakes much easier.
- The taste of cheesecakes directly depends on the quality of cottage cheese. It should be fresh, without the addition of vegetable fat. The most delicious are the curd from granular curd, but to give them a delicate texture, this product must be rubbed through a sieve. Any cottage cheese is recommended to be passed through a sieve, then there will be no lumps in the cheesecakes.
- To add a thick consistency to the cheesecakes, they add flour or semolina. It is simpler to fry such cottage cheese, they keep their shape better, they turn out even and rosy. But if you overdo it with flour, cheesecakes will be too hard, they will be unpleasant to eat. Some recipes do not provide for the addition to the dough or flour or semolina, but cheesecakes for them you can still fry beautiful.
- Almost always eggs are added to cheesecakes, however, it is not recommended to put a lot of them. At 0, 5 kg of cottage cheese usually put 1-2 eggs. The more eggs are added to the dough, the thinner it will be, and in order to thicken it, you will have to add more flour.
- Sugar is also not recommended to put a lot, otherwise cheesecakes will burn. If you like sweets, it is advisable to pour syrup or condensed milk on the curd pan later, when serving them to the table.
- It is possible to form cheesecakes in different ways. If the dough is sufficiently dense, it is rolled out with a sausage, cut into pieces with a thickness of 1, 5-2 cm, flatten a little and then paned in flour. Another option is to separate a piece from the dough, roll it into a ball, flatten it between the palms. Put the batter in the pan with a spoon. So that it does not stick, you can moisten a spoon with water. Remove the dough from a spoon, you can use the second spoon.
- Fry cheesecakes should be in a hot frying pan in a sufficient amount of oil. If you want to reduce their calorie content, cheesecakes can be baked. A baking tray before putting dough on it is covered with parchment paper soaked in oil. To remove excess fat ready cheesecakes lay on a napkin.
- Slices of fresh fruit, fresh or dried berries, and raisins are often added to cheesecakes. But this dish can be unsweetened: with greens, potatoes, garlic.
Serve cheesecakes hot with sour cream. Diets can replace it with unsweetened yogurt. Sweeteners have the right to supplement cheese cakes with condensed milk or jam.
A classic recipe for curd cheesecakes
Composition:
- wheat flour - 120 g;
- cottage cheese - 0, 5 kg;
- sugar - 60-80 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil (for frying) - 60-80 ml.
Preparation Method:
- Sift flour. Cottage cheese wipe through a sieve.
- Add sugar to cottage cheese, break an egg into it, grind to obtain a homogeneous mass.
- In parts adding flour, make moderately dense dough. Roll it into a sausage. Cut into pieces about 1, 5-2 cm wide.
- Slightly flatten each piece between the palms, after having treated them with flour, roll the finished products into flour.
- Heat the pan, pour a spoonful of butter on it. Put a few curds. Fry them to brown crust on both sides.
- Also fry the remaining cheesecakes.
For taste and aroma, vanilla or cinnamon can be added to the curd dough. Serve cottage cheese should be hot. The best addition to them is sour cream, but it can be replaced with condensed milk or confiture.
Cheesecakes with semolina in the oven
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 3 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- sugar - 75 g;
- vanilla sugar - 5 g;
- semolina - 75 g;
- sour cream - 100 ml;
- baking powder - 5 g;
- butter - 30 ml.
Preparation Method:
- Remove the butter from the refrigerator beforehand so that it becomes soft by the time the dough is made for the curd.
- Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, combine with softened butter and sour cream. Stir well.
- Add both types of sugar and eggs to the resulting curd mass. Mix thoroughly.
- Stir in the semolina.
- Enter baking powder, mix.
- Cover the container with the dough with a towel, leave for half an hour.
- Using a spoon, spread the dough in silicone tins. Do not fill them more than two-thirds: the dough will rise.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees, place the molds with cottage cheese dough in it.
- Bake until cheesecakes are covered with a golden crust. Let them stand for 5-10 minutes in the oven off.
Remove the cheese cakes from the molds. In shape, they will resemble puffy buns or muffins. Children will certainly be happy with this treat.
Cottage Cheese and Potatoes
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 5 kg;
- potatoes - 0.5 kg;
- flour - 100-150 g;
- cheese - 150 g;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil - as required.
Preparation Method:
- Wash the potatoes, boil them in the uniform. Cool, peel through a meat grinder or rub through a sieve. You can just knead it with a potatoe grinder. If you have mashed potatoes for lunch or dinner, you can use it.
- Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, combine with mashed potatoes, add salt and eggs.
- Add chopped grated cheese. Mix well. Potato-curd mass should be soft and homogeneous.
- Pouring flour over the spoon and stirring, prepare the dough, the consistency of which allows you to form pancakes.
- Fat the parchment well, place it on a baking sheet.
- From the cooked dough, make pancakes, put them on a baking sheet at a short distance from each other.
- Place the baking tray with the curds in the oven preheated to 200 degrees for literally 5-7 minutes.
It is recommended to serve potato-curd cheese cakes with sour cream or sauce (mushroom, cheese). It will not be superfluous to sprinkle them with chopped greens.
Turkish cheesecakes
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- flour - 0, 2 kg;
- baking powder - 1 bag;
- butter - 50 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- sugar - 40 g;
- water - 40 g;
- lemon - 1 pc.
Preparation Method:
- With curd squeezed through a sieve, mix the sifted flour by adding an egg and softened butter. The result is a fairly dense dough.
- Make small tortillas (10-12 cm in diameter) from the dough; spread them on a baking sheet, after placing the parchment on it.
- Send the baking tray to the oven heated to 180 degrees. Bake cakes for 20 minutes.
- Boil syrup from sugar and water, mix it with squeezed lemon juice.
- Pour the turkey cheesecakes with the prepared mixture when serving them to the table.
This variant of cheesecakes will appeal to those who like to discover new tastes.
Cheese curds with banana
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 4 kg;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- banana - 150 g;
- wheat flour - 80 g;
- salt - at the tip of a knife;
- sugar - 20 g;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
Preparation Method:
- Add the egg, salt and sugar to the cottage cheese ground through the sieve. Spread it.
- Add flour, knead dough.
- Cut banana pulp into small cubes, mix into dough.
- Form doughballs from dough, flatten them between your palms, roll in flour.
- Fry banana-cottage cheese cheesecakes in vegetable oil or in its mixture with cream.
You can serve these flavored cheesecakes with sour cream or whipped cream. Vanilla cream, condensed milk, fruit syrup are also suitable as a supplement.
Cheesecakes with apples
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 5 kg;
- flour - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- apples - 0, 35 kg;
- soda - 2 g;
- sugar - 60 g;
- salt - a pinch;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- vegetable oil - as required.
Preparation Method:
- Cottage cheese, grated through a sieve, combine with egg, salt, vanilla and sugar. Mix thoroughly.
- Peel the apples, cut the seed boxes out of the fruit. Pulp chop grated. Add to the curd. Beat with a mixer.
- Mix small portions of flour into the dough, add soda.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan. Spoon lay out the curd dough. Redden cheesecakes on both sides, put on a dish covered with a napkin.
These syrniki are best served with sour cream, they go well with chocolate cream, condensed milk. Vanilla in the recipe can be replaced by cinnamon. You can add half a teaspoon of cinnamon powder to the amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe.
Chocolate Cheesecakes
Composition:
- cottage cheese - 0, 25 kg;
- flour - 30-40 g;
- cocoa powder - 10 g;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- sugar - to taste;
- vegetable oil - as needed.
Preparation Method:
- Put cottage cheese in a bowl, add sugar to it, stir it.
- Break the egg into the bowl with the curd, mix thoroughly until the mass is homogeneous.
- Pour cocoa and flour. Stir to avoid lumps.
- Form cheesecakes, roll them in flour.
- Heat oil in a pan, brown cheesecakes in it on both sides.
Chocolate cheesecakes are served in the same way as traditional ones: with sour cream, condensed milk, or fruit and berry jam. Whipped cream is also good for them.
Curd cheesecakes - one of the most useful desserts. They can be served separately or for tea, cocoa, coffee. The dish is nourishing enough to replace the main meal. Cooked curds usually for breakfast. The presence of a large number of recipes for this dish allows you to vary the menu.
