Almost every woman is sometimes tormented by the question: what else to cook for your family? Especially the thoughts about breakfast dishes bother me the most: pancakes and scrambled eggs, a sandwich - it's already so tired that your appetite disappears. Then simple recipes for breakfast casseroles will come to the rescue, and not the banal cottage cheese, which is full of culinary sites, but more interesting options. A step-by-step explanation of the cooking principle will make the process easy and enjoyable even for an inexperienced chef.
Curd: for children
Even from kindergarten, it was said that for children the best casserole for breakfast is from cottage cheese. At the same time, everyone knows the ordinary recipe, and there is a feeling that this kind of breakfast has become boring. In fact, the dish is easy to revive and make completely different in taste only thanks to one additional ingredient, for example, apples. For children, this is exactly what you need: a combination of healthy protein and fruit, and when you consider that the calorie content of one hundred grams of such a dish is only 162 calories, it becomes clear why nutritionists love it. In order to cook a casserole, it is necessary to prepare the following products:
- 0.5 kg of cottage cheese and apples;
- 2 tbsp. l semolina, sour cream and sugar;
- two eggs + 1 protein;
- 80 grams of butter;
- vanillin.
Cooking
To cook a cottage cheese casserole for breakfast, you need only half an hour, and this is a weighty argument in favor of a recipe for eternally busy mothers. First you need to grind the cottage cheese with a blender into a smoothie, so that there are no lumps of whipped cheese, and then combine it with sour cream and vanilla.
In a separate bowl, grind the egg yolks with sugar and semolina, add them to the curd mass, send the melted (but not boiling!) Butter there. To stir thoroughly.
Beat two squirrels with a small pinch of salt in a stable foam, so that it remains motionless even with an inverted bowl (this is how they check the quality of whipping in cooking schools). Gently mix them into the curd mass.
Lubricate the silicone (or detachable) baking dish with oil, it is also advisable to sprinkle the inner walls with breadcrumbs or semolina. Put half of the cottage cheese dough into it.
Peel the apples from the seeds and cut into thin slices, put in an even layer on the cottage cheese, and then cover it with the remaining dough. Beat the remaining chicken protein in foam and grease the top of the casserole with it. Send it to the oven and bake for twenty minutes at a temperature of 190-200 degrees. Serve with sour cream or sweet berry sauce.
With meat products: for husband
A casserole for breakfast for a beloved man should be satisfying, so that before lunch he does not have a feeling of hunger, which means that something more important than cottage cheese is needed. Of course, the choice will fall on the combination of meat + cheese, because these two products have repeatedly saved those who are constrained in time. But since the oven is already occupied by the cottage cheese casserole, you will have to cook the meat in the microwave, which, incidentally, will significantly reduce the cooking time. List of required products:
- 400 grams of minced chicken;
- 300 grams of squash;
- 150 grams of hard cheese;
- one onion;
- 2-3 fresh tomatoes;
- 130 grams of sour cream;
- 1 tbsp. l tomato paste;
- 1/4 tsp. coriander, black pepper and salt.
You should also prepare some fresh greens: parsley, cilantro with a little dill are in handy.
Recipe with photo
A casserole for breakfast in this version is good because vegetables make it easier to taste, despite the presence of heavy products: meat, sour cream and cheese. Cooking begins with frying onion chopped in half rings in a small amount of vegetable oil. When the onion becomes transparent, add the minced meat and spices. Over high heat, fry the meat for five minutes, then add the tomato sauce and reduce the heat to a minimum.
Rinse for another three to four minutes. In a suitable microwave size dish, put the meat fry, on top of it mugs of tomatoes mixed with zucchini. Close the lid and send to the microwave for seven minutes, setting the maximum power. While the casserole is preparing, prepare the filling: combine sour cream with grated cheese and finely chopped greens, optionally seasoned with pepper. Pour the casserole and return it to the oven until the cheese is completely melted.
Five-minute recipe in the microwave
Of course, a casserole for breakfast in 5 minutes is nonsense, because only the initial preparation of products takes such an amount of time, but in 10-15 minutes it is quite possible. Moreover, it is suitable for the diet of vegetarians, as it does not include meat products. For cooking, you need to take an arbitrary set of vegetables: zucchini, carrots, bell pepper, you can also use potatoes and finely chopped white cabbage.
The total mass should be about 400 grams of vegetables, grated on a coarse grater. Mix them and fry in a pan in a small amount of butter, not more than three minutes over medium heat. Then add a handful of canned corn to them and simmer for another two minutes, transfer to a refractory baking dish.
Beat two eggs and 300 grams of milk, add spices to taste, as well as a spoon with a hill of wheat flour, making sure that no lumps form during stirring. Pour the resulting mass of vegetables and place the mold in the microwave for 10 minutes, setting the power to at least 800 watts. The delicate taste of such a casserole will pleasantly surprise all family members.
Vegetable diet casserole for your beloved
Healthy but tasty breakfast casseroles - it’s really possible. For example, broccoli with cauliflower, beloved by vegetarians. Gratin is a “casserole” in translation from French, which always has a delicious crust. To prepare such a healthy and low-calorie (only 90 kcal per 100 grams) dish you will need:
- one fork of broccoli and cauliflower (forks is a head of cabbage);
- 1 liter of milk + the same amount of water;
- two hundred grams of sour cream and grated cheese;
- 60 grams of butter;
- 4-6 cloves of garlic;
- a pinch of black pepper, nutmeg. Salt according to taste preferences.
The dish is cooked for about half an hour, 15 minutes of which it will spend in the oven. Serve better hot.
Step cooking
A vegetable casserole for breakfast is another reason to be proud of ourselves, not only for a low-calorie dish, but also for the ability to organize and cook normal food, and not once again to eat buns or sandwiches. For starters, cabbage forks should be disassembled into small inflorescences, about 4-5 cm in diameter. Boil milk together with water and a pinch of salt, place the prepared inflorescences of broccoli and cauliflower there, boil for about six to eight minutes. It is important not to overdo it in boiling water, otherwise the inflorescences will fall apart and turn into porridge.
Throw the prepared cabbage into a colander, and in the meantime, grate the cheese and mix half of it with sour cream and spices (chop the garlic in the press). Lubricate the baking dish with oil and put cabbage there, pour over the cheese mass and send to the oven for ten minutes. The temperature mode is set to 210 degrees. Five minutes before the end of cooking, sprinkle the top of the gratin with the remaining cheese and return to the oven. This dish is used in a warm form, like all casseroles with a cheese crust.
Noodles with apples
If pasta or noodles are left from an evening dinner, then why not give the product a second life? You can make wonderful casseroles for breakfast from flour products, for example, following this recipe step by step:
- In a medium bowl of already boiled pasta (approximately 200 grams of raw), take two apples, diced and 150 grams of dried apricots, which should be pre-soaked in boiling water for 5-8 minutes, and then cut into pieces.
- Mix in a separate bowl two eggs and 2 tbsp. l sugar, beat until a good froth and at the end add three tbsp. l milk. Combine noodles and fruits in one bowl, mix.
- Generously grease the baking dish with butter, move the noodles there and pour the egg mixture. Put the mold in the oven (190 degrees) and bake the noodles to a light ruddy hue. Serve both in warm and cold form with berry sauces, sour cream or jam.
Hearty pita breakfast for the whole family
Yes, a casserole for breakfast can even be made from Armenian pita bread, and you’ll lick your fingers! All you need is a few ingredients:
- two pita breads;
- 3-4 eggs;
- two each: onion and tomato;
- 400 grams of sausage, which if necessary can be replaced with any kind of meat product: sausages, ham, boiled chicken fillet;
- 300 grams of hard cheese;
- 130 grams of mayonnaise and sour cream;
- a small bunch of greenery;
- salt and black pepper for taste reasons.
You can also use Suluguni cheese to enhance the taste, replacing it with half of the traditional hard cheese.
How to cook?
Fry the onion until a slight color change in a pan in two tablespoons of oil, add sliced ​​sausage or other meat product at your discretion. After a couple of minutes, turn off the stove. On the table, spread pita bread, put meat and onions on it evenly, spread rings of fresh tomatoes on top of it, which in turn are sprinkled with cheese, grated on a coarse grater and mixed with chopped herbs.
Top you need to pour mayonnaise, a little smearing it on the surface with a spoon or knife. Next, carefully roll the pita bread into a roll and move it into a baking dish, slightly oiled, and roll in the form of a snail. It is important that the spirals of the future casserole fit snugly together and fill the entire form, so we use the required amount of pita bread with filling. Beat eggs, spices and sour cream to a uniform state, pour the contents of the form with the resulting sauce and place it in the oven. The casserole for breakfast in the oven will be until the top is browned, so the temperature should be about 200 degrees.