Kalachi is an original Russian pastry decorating holiday tables. But if many centuries ago they were exclusively white bread with a hole in the middle, then modern culinary specialists went further. Today, kalachi are made from various types of flour, from completely different dough and a variety of additional ingredients. They can be round, oval or even square, in the form of small pancakes with a hole in the center or donuts.
A find for culinary specialists
Especially popular with housewives are cottage cheese cakes. This is an amazingly delicate and delicious dish. In addition, such baking is considered healthy, because legends do not add up to the useful properties and qualities of cottage cheese.
Especially popular and popular is the recipe for cottage cheese curds in young mothers. As you know, many capricious children refuse to use healthy cottage cheese in their pure form. So mothers have to contrive, creating delicious dishes from products that they don’t like.
List of Essential Ingredients
In order to cook cottage cheese, you will need simple and available products in any modern kitchen.
- 400-500 g of cottage cheese.
- Three chicken eggs.
- One cup (200 g) of sugar.
- A teaspoon of soda.
- A little vegetable oil for frying.
- To taste - salt.
- Three glasses of flour.
- For decoration, you can use powdered sugar.
Cooking process
Prepare bulk dishes. Put the cottage cheese in it and knead it well using a wooden crush or a regular fork. Curd is better to take high-quality granular. Slowly add sugar and continue manipulation.
When the curd and sugar mass is homogeneous and well mixed, you can add eggs. Many experienced housewives advise to pre-beat them in a separate bowl, and then gradually introduce them into the curd. So the dough for the hands will turn out more magnificent and tender. Add salt and a little soda.
Flour is also recommended to be sifted in advance in a separate bowl. Add it to the curd mass in stages. The dough itself knows how much he should take a bulk product. The kneading dough should be soft. Be careful with flour. Do not add the entire quantity at once. An excess of flour leads to the fact that the dough becomes stiff, unyielding and problematic.
Baking
The cottage cheese sticks may be different in shape. You can take as a basis the traditional shape of a circle with a hole in the center, or you can create a miracle and interest your whim in original baking.
Today we will tell you how to cook classic cottage cheese. To do this, divide the total mass of dough into pieces the size of a chicken egg. A sausage is formed from each ball. Its edges are bent and connected together. It turns out a classic kalach.
It remains only to heat the oven to a temperature of 200 degrees, cover the baking sheet with special baking paper, put the curds on the baking sheet and send them to bake for 20-30 minutes.
Fried in oil
If you don’t have time to wait for the oven to heat up and baking to cook, if you want to cook the dish as soon as possible, then another recipe will come to the rescue. It will be cottage cheese fried in vegetable oil. It should be noted that they will turn out to be more high-calorie than pastries cooked in the oven.
The dough for fried rolls is prepared in the same way as for baked. However, experienced housewives are advised to make them smaller and thinner so that the baked goods are quicker fried and not be crude in total.
Pour enough vegetable oil into the pan. It should practically cover the kalachi. Wait for the oil to heat well. Now you can lay the baking. It is recommended to fry for a couple of minutes on each side. If you have calcined the oil well, the frying process will be almost lightning fast.