Tasty, lush, fragrant, mouth-watering and ruddy curd balls are a great idea for both breakfast and a festive table. These golden koloboks are best served warmly sprinkled with powdered sugar. Today we will provide an overview of interesting and yet simple recipes for curd balls.
The use of cottage cheese
You can talk about the benefits of this product for a very long time. Cottage cheese is equally useful for children and adults. It belongs to fermented milk products and is a source of calcium, protein and phosphorus. In addition, it is characterized by a large amount of easily digestible protein. But not all people, especially children, like the use of the product in its natural form. That is why there are many different dishes based on cottage cheese: cheesecakes, dumplings, casseroles, donuts, puddings, rolls and pies. We offer you an interesting recipe for cottage cheese balls fried in oil.
Cottage cheese balls
The recipe for such balls includes the most simple and affordable products for everyone, which are likely to be found in the kitchen of any good housewife. Cottage cheese for cooking can be taken with the desired fat content, and use flour of the highest or first grade. In order for the dough to be more fluffy and loose, we recommend using soda (it is necessary to put slaked into it) or a baking powder.
- 250 g of cottage cheese and flour;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 5 g of baking powder (you can replace 3.5 g of soda);
- a pinch of salt;
- 400 ml.
The recipe for cottage cheese balls is extremely simple: first we sift the flour (this will enrich it with oxygen) with salt and soda (baking powder) added to it. In another container, in which the dough will be kneaded in the future, beat the eggs with sugar until the latter is completely dissolved. Then we add cottage cheese and sifted flour to this mass, knead well.
The amount of flour depends on the consistency of cottage cheese: if the product is not dry but wet, then a little more flour will be needed for the dough. We give the finished test to lie down for five minutes. Then we divide it into equal pieces and roll them into balls with a diameter of about two centimeters. We heat the deep fat in a saucepan, but do not overheat (otherwise, in hot oil, the balls will immediately fry on top, and remain raw inside). We don’t stack the products too tightly; during frying they increase well in volume.
Fried cottage cheese balls are taken out with a slotted spoon and laid out on a paper towel or sieve in order to get rid of excess oil. Slightly cooled products are sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Curd balls: recipe with photo
Balls of cottage cheese is a very tasty budget option for breakfast, the preparation of which does not take much time. It is necessary to take into account the fact that it is better to use curd dishes, including curd balls, in the morning, because they are very high-calorie. Curd dessert is considered a universal dish: you can take it with you on a picnic, use it as a snack at school or prepare for tea drinking. We offer another recipe for curd balls in oil. To work, we need:
- sunflower oil - 250 ml;
- icing sugar - 30 g;
- large eggs - 2 pcs.;
- cottage cheese - 250 g;
- baking powder - sachet;
- sugar - 45 g;
- premium flour - 1.2 tbsp .;
- salt - 2 g.
In a small container, combine the eggs, salt and sugar, beat the mass with a whisk. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve and add to the egg mass, add the baking powder along with the flour and knead the dough of medium stickiness. Rub your hands with vegetable oil and roll balls, the size of not more than half a walnut. Heat the oil well and evenly in a saucepan without allowing it to overheat. Then reduce the heat to medium and begin to bake the balls. Products in heated oil do not fit too tightly, because they increase well in volume. The rosy, fried balls are laid out on a paper napkin and, after cooling down a bit, are decorated with icing sugar.
Another option
The recipe for cottage cheese balls fried in oil very often evokes memories of our childhood and home comfort, takes us to the time when our mothers or grandmothers treated us to their pastries. We offer to cook balls according to the grandmother's recipe. Take:
- 700 g of cottage cheese 5%;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 3 tbsp. l Sahara;
- a glass of flour;
- 100 g of powdered (sugar);
- 700 ml of sunflower oil.
The method of preparation of curd balls according to the recipe: mix the curd with eggs, sugar and flour, knead well. Divide the finished dough into small pieces of the same size, then roll even balls out of them. Pour oil into a pan and heat it well. Bake products until golden brown, remove from oil using a slotted spoon. Each curd ball, after it cools down a bit, roll in icing sugar or sugar.
Delicate balls of cottage cheese
The curd balls prepared according to this recipe turn out to be unusually delicate in taste. The amount of ingredients used will allow you to cook a treat for ten people.
- 500 g of fresh cottage cheese;
- 320 g flour;
- 7 g of soda;
- 3 large chicken eggs;
- 0.5 tbsp. Sahara;
- 200 ml rust oils;
- 5 g of salt.
Let's start making the balls by mixing half a kilogram of cottage cheese with flour, add eggs, half a glass of sugar, soda, quenched with vinegar, salt to the resulting mass. After that, knead a smooth, uniform dough. We make cottage cheese workpieces the size of a walnut and roll them in the form of balls. Fry the products in preheated deep fat until rosy color. Roll the finished balls in a large amount of powdered sugar or sesame.
Curd balls in the oven
For those who do not really like pastries fried in large quantities of oil, we offer a recipe for cottage cheese balls cooked in the oven. It turns out a very magnificent, airy delicious golden delicacy. In addition to being very light, they are also less high in calories. For work, we need:
- sugar - 40 g;
- one egg;
- a pack of cottage cheese - 250 g;
- baking powder (soda) - 5 g;
- flour - 160 g;
- salt to taste.
Put the cottage cheese in a suitable bowl, break the egg into it, add salt and sugar. Using a blender, beat everything into a paste-like mass. Pour the sifted flour with the baking powder into the resulting paste. The dough should not be too thick, it should stick a little to your hands. With wet hands, we form small balls and lay on a baking sheet. The temperature in the oven is maintained at 180 degrees, we prepare dessert for half an hour. Such balls can also be decorated with icing sugar. They are good to serve delicious freshly brewed tea or a cup of coffee.
Curd dessert can be varied as follows: knead the dough according to any of the above recipes. Put any filling in the middle of each curd ball. This can be peeled and cut into small pieces apples or other fruits, berries. As a filling, boiled condensed milk, jam, jam, jam are perfect.