Cooking pastries using curd as a filling or a component of the dough is an excellent choice. It rarely turns dry, always has a pleasant aroma, and is very nourishing.
Baking with cottage cheese in the oven
To cook delicious pastries without much work, it is best to use the oven. The following two recipes are designed for this approach.
Royal cheesecake
The combination of delicate cottage cheese soufflé and shortbread dough gives this cake great taste. And it takes very little time to prepare such a delicacy.
Ingredients:
- flour - 0.5 kg;
- butter (frozen) - 180 g;
- sugar - 0.4 kg;
- salt and soda - ½ teaspoon;
- cottage cheese - 0.5 kg;
- egg - 4 pieces;
- Vanillin - 1 year
Cooking time: 55 minutes.
Calories: 315 kcal.
Recipe step by step:
- First, you need to do stuffing: beat eggs with cottage cheese and beat with a blender;
- In the resulting mass pour half the sugar and vanilla, mix everything thoroughly;
- You can proceed to the preparation of the dough: remove the oil from the freezer and immediately rub, using a large grater (leave a little oil to lubricate the form);
- Mix the grated butter with flour, the rest of the sugar, salt and water (everything should be ground in such a way as to make it look like crumbs);
- Grease the inner surfaces of the baking pan with the remaining butter;
- Put half the volume of the whole crumb over the bottom surface and form the sides;
- Put the stuffing in the form of a uniform layer;
- Sprinkle over the other half of the crumb over the filling (also evenly);
- Place the almost finished cake in the oven (preheated to 180˚), where it will bake for about 40 minutes;
- Cool ready meal should be inside the form, then it can be removed and served.
Cottage Cheese Bagels
Neat and delicious pastries, which successfully brighten up any evening tea or get-togethers with guests.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 150 g;
- sugar - 0.1 kg;
- egg - 1 piece;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- soda - 1 tsp;
- salt - ½ tsp;
- flour - 0.3 kg;
- marmalade for the filling - 150 g.
Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Calories: 352 kcal.
Cooking progress:
- A lot of cottage cheese knead in a separate container, using a spoon, with sugar and salt;
- Add an egg to the curd and mix with one another until the mixture is smooth;
- Add vegetable oil, mix everything again;
- Pour a teaspoon of soda;
- Prepare the sifted flour and pour into the container with the cottage cheese mixture;
- How to knead all the components of the test;
- Lightly sprinkle the surface with flour and put dough on top;
- Using a rolling pin, roll it into a thin (a couple of millimeters thick) sheet;
- Cut the dough into pieces in the form of triangles;
- In the widest part of the triangles, place a small amount of the filling, and then roll each of them into a tube, moving from the wide side to the opposite vertex;
- The surface of the almost finished bagels can be smeared with egg yolk, if there is a desire;
- Put the oven on to warm up (up to 180˚) and distribute the bagels over the baking tray;
- Put the baking tray in the oven and cook for about a third of an hour, until the pastry is slightly golden;
- The treat is ready.
Pie with curd and apples "Shustrik"
Cheese and apple pies are equally good for any tea party. They can also be used as a separate small snack. The main thing in the cooking process to consider that pastries, which use apples, can only be sweet.
To make a pie "Shustrik" you need quite a bit of time and effort, which is why it got its name.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 0.2 kg;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- sour cream - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- Apple - 1 piece;
- baking powder - 12 g (1 pack);
- flour - 150 g;
- sugar - 0.2 kg;
- vanilla - 1 year
Cooking time: 50-55 minutes.
Calories: 207 kcal.
Cooking progress:
- In deep containers, grind the cottage cheese and soft butter together;
- Whisk separately, using a whisk, eggs, vanilla and granulated sugar;
- Add the resulting mixture to the container with the curd;
- There put sour cream, mix all the ingredients;
- Sift the flour and, adding baking powder to it, add it to the curd, mix everything again;
- The dough should turn out to be fluid, ½ of its volume should be poured into a greased baking sheet;
- Wash the apple, get rid of the core (you can remove the skin) and cut into thin plates;
- Put apple slices on top of the first layer of dough and pour the second one on top;
- Preheat oven to a temperature of 200˚;
- Put the cake in the oven and bake until ready (40 minutes).
Recipe for pancakes from cottage cheese and kefir in a hurry
Sometimes there is not enough time for culinary delights, but this is not a reason to limit yourself in some way. To diversify your menu, you can use the following quick recipe for baking with cottage cheese and kefir.
Making pancakes is not a difficult task at all, and the result in any case will justify the effort.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 0.2 kg;
- egg - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 75 g;
- flour - 0.2 kg;
- kefir - 0.2 l;
- soda - ½ tsp;
- salt - to taste;
- orange peel - 10 g;
- vegetable oil - 0.1 liters.
Cooking time: 0.5 hours.
Caloric content: 200 kcal.
Cooking recipe step by step:
- Beat eggs into a deep bowl, add sugar and salt, and mix everything using a fork or blender (wait a while so that the sugar can melt);
- For the cottage cheese, take a separate container and rub it in it with a fork, then dilute with a glass of kefir and stir thoroughly, making sure that there are no lumps in the cottage cheese;
- Combine cottage cheese with kefir and eggs with sugar, mix the ingredients, achieving maximum homogeneity;
- Pour 0.2 kg of flour into this mixture together with soda and orange peel crushed on a grater;
- Knead the dough, break all the flour lumps with a fork or blender;
- Pour vegetable oil into the pan, heat it;
- Fritters form by pouring dough into the pan with a tablespoon;
- Every pancake fry on both sides, seeking the appearance of a golden hue;
- Both cold and hot pancakes can be served (they can be seasoned with sour cream, jam or jam).
A simple recipe for cottage cheese and sour cream pie
One of the options for traditional pastries with butter biscuit, cottage cheese and sour cream.
Ingredients:
- flour - 0.4 kg;
- cottage cheese - 0.6 kg;
- sugar - 0.2 kg;
- sour cream - 250 g;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- baking powder - 2 tsp;
- butter - 150 g;
- starch - 50 g;
- vanilla sugar - 2 teaspoons.
Cooking time: 60-70 minutes.
Caloric content: 280 kcal.
Cooking progress:
- Before cooking, butter should melt somewhat and become soft, after which it should be placed in a separate deep bowl;
- Add sugar to the butter and rub both components together until the mixture turns white;
- In the same container add a couple of eggs, mix, pour the crushed flour and baking powder, carefully knead the dough, ensuring its homogeneity;
- Cover the inner surface of the pan with butter (sprinkle a little flour on top, so that it does not stick), put the dough inside, smooth it out and make the sides;
- For the filling, you must wipe the curd (using a sieve) and put it in a separate bowl;
- Add starch with egg and mix everything as carefully as possible;
- Sour cream with sugar (regular and vanilla) whip (it is necessary that it acquired a certain pomp);
- Combine sour cream and cottage cheese and put this mixture on top of a layer of dough in a baking dish;
- Turn on the oven and set the temperature to 180˚, wait until it warms up;
- Bake the cake for about 45-50 minutes;
- Ready delicacy needs to be cooled, not taking out of the form, and only then served to the table.
Baking from cottage cheese in a slow cooker
Recipes with baking, which is prepared in a slow cooker, are usually quite simple and very suitable for those who doubt their culinary talents or have not yet gained sufficient skill in making such meals.
Apricot delicacy
When using this recipe, it is permissible to use fresh, frozen or canned apricots. The aroma of this delicacy will not leave anyone indifferent and will be especially appropriate during the winter evening get-togethers with guests.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 0.5 kg;
- apricot - 10 pieces;
- flour - 150 g;
- milk - 50 ml;
- sugar to taste;
- sunflower oil - 50 ml;
- baking powder - 12 g;
- cream - 0.1 l;
- egg - 2 pieces;
- semolina - 25 g;
- corn starch - 30 g;
- Vanillin - 1 year
Cooking time: 1.5 hours.
Calories: 310 kcal.
Cooking progress:
- In a deep bowl pour the flour and baking powder, mix;
- To grind flour, a part of cottage cheese (about 100 g) and sugar;
- Pour some water and sunflower oil into the dough, mix everything thoroughly (the mass should turn out to be tight and homogeneous);
- Cover the bowl with dough with food grade polyethylene and put in the refrigerator for half an hour;
- The rest of the curd mix with milk and beaten with sugar yolks;
- Add to the base for the semolina filling, 1 gram of vanillin and 12 grams of starch, mix everything up;
- Squirrels also beat with sugar and gently enter into the cottage cheese, if possible maintaining their lightness;
- Cover the inner surface of the baking dish with oil and sprinkle with decoy (thanks to this, the cake will not stick to the walls);
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator and evenly distribute inside the bowl (the edges should rise a few centimeters);
- Rinse and wet the apricots with a paper towel (too wet apricots will cause the dough to not bake), cut into halves and get rid of the bones;
- Put the halves of the fruit on top of the dough (cut down) and pour the stuffing in there too;
- Put the bowl in the slow cooker, turned on in the "Baking" mode, and cook dessert for an hour (do not lift the lid in the process);
- When the apricot treat is ready, you should cool it down a little and then serve it.
When using fresh or frozen apricots, you can add more sugar, with canned fruit it needs less.
Low-fat cottage cheese pie
To save the figure and not to experience unnecessary stress due to the abandonment of your favorite treats, you can use a very simple recipe for low-calorie baking with cottage cheese. Cooked in a slow cooker, it not only does not harm health, but also improves mood, giving the opportunity, as always, to enjoy life.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese (fat-free) - 0.5 kg;
- apples (savory) - 4 pieces;
- egg - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 75 g;
- semolina - 50 g;
- salt - to taste.
Cooking time: 80 minutes.
Calories: 102 kcal.
Cooking progress:
- In a large bowl, mash the curd and eggs;
- Pour semolina, salt and granulated sugar (you can substitute candied fruits, dried fruits or berries);
- Wash apples, peel, get rid of the core;
- Grate slices of peeled fruit with a large grater;
- Mix crushed apples and cottage cheese;
- Grease the walls of the bowl with oil and sprinkle some semolina;
- Curd-apple mass is placed inside the bowl;
- Put the bowl in the slow cooker and cook the dessert in the Baking mode for 60 minutes, and after turning off the device for about 10 minutes, do not open the slow cooker;
- When baking is cold, you can help yourself.
Apple pies are perfectly combined with cinnamon, before serving you can add a little bit of this spice to give baking with a curd cheese a pleasant and rich flavor.
And another recipe for delicious cheesecake with cottage cheese - in the next video.
