How to cook a casserole of cottage cheese and fragrant strawberries

To make a casserole, you will need tender cottage cheese, chicken eggs, semolina, flour, starch, fragrant strawberries. First you need to grind the cottage cheese, add egg whites to it, beaten into strong foam, yolks, pounded with sugar, semolina, strawberries, mix well or lay out the filling. Instead of fresh strawberries, you can take strawberry jelly or frozen berries.

Classic cottage cheese casserole with strawberries

Berries pre-washed and dried on a towel. Remove soft and damaged. Prepared strawberries lightly roll in starch or flour.

It will take:

• 3 eggs;
• 1 kg of cottage cheese;
• 50 g sugar;
• 30 grams of starch;
• 50 g of semolina;
• 40 g sour cream;
• 10 g vanilla sugar;
• 350 grams of strawberries.

Time: 45 minutes. Caloric content: 110 kcal.

How to cook:

1. Grind the cottage cheese until smooth using a mixer or a regular spoon.
2. Separate the egg yolks from the proteins (remove the latter in the fridge).
3. Grind the yolks with sugar, add the semolina, set aside for 20 minutes, then introduce a homogeneous curd mass, vanilla sugar.
4. Beat chilled proteins, salt a little, wash strawberries, cut into two parts, roll in starch, add these ingredients to the dough, mix well.
5. Cover the form with cooking paper or brush with oil, sprinkle the surface with a dry semolina, and lay out the dough. Send the form to the fridge (for 30 minutes). Then spread a thin layer of sour cream over the surface of the casserole.
6. Preheat oven to 180ºC. Cooking dessert in this mode for 15 minutes, then set the temperature to 150ºC, bake for another half hour. Readiness baking check wooden toothpick.

Cheesecake casserole with frozen strawberries

When the season of fresh berries is over, frozen strawberries help out the housewives, it looks so beautiful that it is a pity to refuse it. In this case, strawberries can be spread on top of the cottage cheese or add to the dough.

It will take:

• 1 large egg;
• 0.6 kg fat cottage cheese;
• 0.3 kg of strawberries (frozen);
• 75 g sugar;
• 50 g brown sugar;
• 50 g of semolina;
• to lubricate the form a little oil.

Time: 30 minutes. Caloric content: 115 kcal.

How to make dessert:

1. Get the strawberries out of the freezer in advance so that it thaws out. Beat egg until fluffy foam.
2. Pounded curd combine with a beaten egg, pour semolina, granulated sugar, mix.
3. Place dough in a greased form, spread strawberries on top, sprinkle with brown sugar. Cook at 180ºC for about 30 minutes.

Tip: if you want to increase the number of ingredients, you need to take 2-3 eggs per 1 kg of cottage cheese, 3-5 spoons of semolina, no more, otherwise the delicacy will lose its delicate texture.

Cheesecake casserole with strawberry jelly

Strawberry jelly baking is especially popular with children. It is important that the cottage cheese for it is not dry, so it is better to buy a homemade product. If it is still dry, grind it with sour cream.

It will take:

• 1 egg;
• 1 kg of cottage cheese;
• 50 g butter (melt);
• 70 g sugar;
• ¼ glasses of semolina;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• 10 g of vanilla;
• 80 g sour cream;
• 300 g strawberry jelly.

Time: 25-30 minutes. Caloric content: 105 kcal.

Preparation step by step:

1. Prepare the dough: grind the cottage cheese, add to it the beaten with sugar egg, melted butter, semolina, salt, vanillin.
2. Lay out the dough, strawberry jelly in the form of layers, smooth, sour cream on top, sprinkle with melted butter.
3. Put the casserole in a hot oven (180ºC).

Little tricks: baking will become golden and look like a cottage cheese cake, if you well beat 2 egg whites with sugar, put them on the finished baking, send to the oven (for 10 minutes).

Casserole "Tender" in a slow cooker

The technology of cooking casseroles in a slow cooker does not differ from cooking this delicacy in the oven, just the shape is replaced with a special ceramic bowl. She, too, is oiled and filled with prepared dough. Set the mode "Baking", set the time to 45 minutes and forget about the baking.

It will take:

• 2 eggs;
• 200 ml of condensed milk;
• 0.6 kg of tender curd;
• 1 glass of strawberries;
• 100 g of flour;
• 100 g of semolina;
• oil for lubrication.

Time: 45 minutes. Caloric content: 107 kcal.

Step by step method of cooking:

1. Grind the curd with condensed milk and eggs. Add semolina, flour, strawberries, mix gently.
2. To process a bowl butter, to slightly powder a flour. Put the cooked dough, set the mode "Baking", the approximate time - 40-45 minutes. During the preparation, so that the texture of the dessert does not deteriorate, do not open the slow cooker, and when the baking is ready, let it cool slightly and turn it gently onto a flat dish. By the way, the bottom casserole will be blush than the top.

Tip: you can serve berry gravy to the casserole (strawberries need to be crushed using a mixer or blender, add granulated sugar at your discretion and heat, not boiling, so that the sugar is completely melted).

Low Fat Strawberry Casserole

To reduce calorie, cottage cheese is better to take a low fat. In the dough, it is desirable to add lemon zest and a little squeezed juice, this citrus flavor will make the dessert tastier.

It will take:

• 4 eggs;
• 50 grams of corn starch;
• 250 g low-fat cottage cheese;
• 10 g of baking powder;
• 300 grams of strawberries;
• 1 lemon

Time: 30 minutes. Calories: 100 kcal.

Cooking method:

1. Preheat oven to 180ºС.
2. Wash strawberries, cut in half. Egg yolks and whites separate.
3. Finely grate the lemon zest, squeeze the juice from the half of the fruit.
4. Mixer, beat egg yolks into lush foam, add zest, juice, squirrels, beat again. Add starch, mashed cottage cheese, baking powder, strawberries, mix.
5. Oil form, fill with dough, smooth on top. Bake for 30 minutes. Ready dessert should gradually cool down, for this you need to turn off the oven, open the door slightly. After that, remove, carefully remove from the form, serve with sauce.

Tip: the finished dessert can be sprinkled with powdered sugar or pour yogurt without sugar.

Cooking secrets

The main ingredient in the casserole is cottage cheese. It is very important that it is homogeneous, gentle, without the slightest hint of acid. If you choose the product correctly and follow all the principles of cooking, the casserole will turn out to be incredibly tasty, juicy and tender.

How to choose cottage cheese

It is better to give preference to farmer's fat cottage cheese. It is with him get a tasty and dense casserole. A less fatty product is ideal for low-calorie desserts with a light texture, and in order to bake cakes, you need to add a little milk or sour cream.

And finally, the cottage cheese product does not in the best way affect the taste and structure of the dessert, so it is not suitable for cooking casseroles.

Chef's secrets

Eggs are used as a binder in a casserole. They give baking pomp, without them it will turn out dense. Eggs should be whipped separately using a blender or mixer, adding sugar and a pinch of salt. And only after that mix them with cottage cheese.

Then add flour or semolina to the dough, which will make baking more tender. The consistency of the dough will resemble liquid sour cream. The dough should be left on the table (10-15 minutes), so that the semolina is slightly swollen. With flour the dessert will be denser.

Instead of dry semolina, you can use cooked semolina. This dessert has a soft texture and at the same time saves volume. To bake a surface of a delicacy before baking with sour cream or sprinkle with sugar to get an appetizing caramel crust.

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