Stuffed pancakes - this is a very "convenient" dish. Firstly, it can be prepared in advance and frozen, that is, you will always have a “strategic supply” at hand in case of unexpected guests or lack of time to prepare food. And secondly, pancakes, like pies, can be cooked with almost any filling. Stuffed pancakes can be snack or dessert, and if stuffed with meat, you get a full meal for lunch or dinner.
Today we will tell you how to cook pancakes with cottage cheese. The whole process of cooking this dish can be divided into two stages. On the first of them we will cook pancakes ourselves. And on the second - we will prepare the filling and wrap it in pancakes.
Thin pancakes made from unleavened dough are suitable for stuffing . Surely every cook has his own recipe for baking such pancakes. Someone prefers to use kefir for making dough, someone considers starch to be an obligatory addition to flour. Well, for beginners, we will offer a simple recipe for making thin pancakes.
Take two glasses of milk, add two tablespoons of sugar and a third of a teaspoon of salt. We put two eggs in the same dish. Mix all this with a mixer and start adding flour, it will take two glasses. Continuing to mix the dough with a mixer, add three tablespoons of vegetable oil and half a spoonful of soda, which must be repaid with vinegar.
The dough is ready, you can start baking pancakes. They are more convenient to bake in special pans with low sides and non-stick coating. Put the baked pancakes in a pile on a plate.
Now we need to prepare the filling. It should be noted that pancakes with cottage cheese can be made not only sweet, but also snack bars.
To prepare the salt filling, take half a kilogram of cottage cheese, mix it with beaten egg, salt and herbs. If the filling turned out to be somewhat dry, then you can add a little sour cream or mayonnaise to it. If desired, you can mix the cottage cheese with grated cheese in a ratio of two to one.
But still, pancakes with cottage cheese are often cooked with a sweet version of the filling. The simplest recipe for its preparation is that the cottage cheese is mixed with beaten eggs and sugar. A pound of cottage cheese requires one egg and about a glass of sugar, however, the last ingredient is best added to taste. To add flavor to the filling, you can add vanilla sugar, cinnamon or citrus zest.
Pancakes with cottage cheese turn out to be very tasty if you use fruits or berries as an additive for the filling. For example, you can add raisins or dried apricots to the curd. For this, dried fruits need to be washed and soaked in boiling water so that they become softer. Then the raisins are spread on a sieve to make water glass, and added to the curd mass.
You can use fresh berries and fruits to make the filling. For example, pancakes with cottage cheese and strawberries are very tasty. To prepare such a delicious filling, mix the cottage cheese with condensed milk, and cut the strawberries into pieces and mix gently with the curd mass. You can use other berries or fruits to make fillings.
So, we have ready pancakes and filling, we begin the process of stuffing. We take one pancake, put a spoon of filling on it and curl it. You can roll the pancake with an envelope or a tube, as you like.
Ready pancakes stuffed with cottage cheese should be fried in a pan with butter, turning over so that the crust forms on both sides. You can also bake prepared pancakes in the oven, laying them on a greased baking sheet and a little anointing with sour cream on top.
And you can, having preparations, quickly prepare a pancake cake. For this, it is more convenient to use a detachable form, but you can also use a frying pan. We spread pancakes in the form, like cake layers, layering them with a thin layer of filling. Lubricate our cake with sour cream or butter on top and send it to the oven. As soon as the top becomes rosy - ready. We take our “work of art” from the oven and cut it into sectors like a cake. We serve tea or coffee.