Cheese cake is a delicious delicacy that will decorate the festive table and go with a bang for dinner, and will be an excellent breakfast, and an appetizing snack for tea, because breakfast should be hearty, but light.
Tortillas with cheese - a great snack for the whole family for tea and coffee. They are prepared quickly and very tasty. Look at our photos of cheese cakes, if you are a cheese lover, you will like this option for tea. The dough is saturated with your favorite spices, cheese flavor. Yummy! Let's get to know new recipes soon.
Cheese cake
You can bake a cake in several ways, for example, with kefir or milk, yeast, and also with the addition of not only cheese, but also herbs, ham, vegetables and mushrooms, later we will talk about different options for filling. But let's start with the simplest.
The delicacy will be ready in 15 minutes, cheese cakes from airy light dough, which is instantly baked. The cheese melts and saturates the dough with aromatic creamy juice.
Kefir base for plain cheese cake
To prepare the basis for a snack, that is, dough, you will need:
- Hard cheese - 1.5 tbsp.
- Flour - 2 tbsp.
- Kefir - 1 tbsp.
- Soda - 0.5 tsp.
- Sugar - 0.5 tsp.
- A pinch of salt and spices to taste.
So that the seasonings dissolve well and soak the dough, spices, sugar, salt and soda, add kefir in the first place.
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. There is not much difference which cheese to use. To complete the taste, you can try several varieties.
Add a glass of grated cheese to kefir, set aside the rest.
Sift the flour and gradually pour, stirring. You should have an elastic soft dough that does not stick to your hands.
Divide the finished dough into small portions. Roll each piece into a flat cake. The thinner the cake, the more crispy it will be after frying.
Sauté one side of the tortilla over low heat under a lid, turn over, sprinkle the remaining cheese on top and cover with a lid. Fry over low heat.
These are the cheese cakes on kefir in a pan. Add some greens to the top of the cheese. This is not necessary, however, so the cakes look more appetizing, with melted cheese.
Cakes on milk
You can bake cheese cakes not only on kefir, but also on milk. Most often, a sour product is used, but fresh does not spoil the snack. It depends on how sour milk is in what proportions other products are added so that the products do not turn out rubber. Let's try to make cheese cakes with fresh milk.
For this we need:
- Flour - 2 tbsp.
- Milk - 0.5 tbsp.
- Cheese - 0.5 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l
- A pinch of salt.
The dough is kneaded, as in the previous recipe, with the addition of vegetable oil to the dough itself. But these cakes can be fried in several ways.
If you don’t like buns that are too dry, grease the pan with vegetable or butter. You can also use fat cream cheese in the recipe.
Another way of cooking is in the oven. Cheese cakes in the oven are baked for no more than 25 minutes, otherwise they will become too dry and the cheese will be fried.
Put the cakes on a baking sheet, sprinkle with cheese, your favorite greens. Cooking in the oven promises a more ruddy look to the dough and melted cheese.
In some recipes, it is recommended to add a little garlic, this guarantees a pleasant aroma and brutal appetite.
Yeast cake
By the way, you can make dough for cheese cakes not only from fermented milk products, but also, for example, with yeast. Let's look at this option for making gingerbread dough.
Essential cheese cake products:
- Flour - 1.5 tbsp.
- Yeast - 25 g.
- Water - 0.5 tbsp.
- Cheese - 200 g.
- Vegetable oil - 12 tbsp. l
- Garlic - 3-4 teeth.
- Sugar - 2 tbsp. l
- Salt is a pinch.
- Pepper, basil.
So, let's start by making the dough. Pour water, vegetable oil (seven tablespoons), sugar and salt into a saucepan, boil and cool. Yeast can be added to a warm liquid and, thoroughly mixed, dissolved.
Pour the finished liquid into the flour and knead the dough. We shift the finished dough into a deep bowl and wait for it to rise.
Grind cheese on a coarse grater. Peel the garlic, crush and mix with the remaining vegetable oil.
Divide the dough into equal parts, roll it into cakes and sprinkle with cheese and garlic. Cakes are baked for 10-15 minutes in the oven at 180 degrees.
Crispy odorous cakes - yummy for tea as a hot sandwich.
Toppings
Variety of cakes can be with the help of various fillings. You can add anything to them, most often they are used for:
- ham, sausage, smoked;
- feta cheese, cottage cheese, cheese mixes;
- greens, onion fillings;
- boiled eggs go well with them;
- stewed cabbage;
- sauteed mushrooms;
- fried carrots;
- mashed potatoes;
- meat filling, liver and minced meat.
The remains of mashed potatoes or mushrooms can be sent to cheese cakes and served for breakfast or as a hot sandwich for tea.
Ham flat cakes
Here is another recipe for kefir stuffed cheese cakes. Instead of sausage, you can also use ham, smoked sausages, boiled meat or chicken, smoked chicken - whatever your heart desires and what will please your family. We’ll make cakes by adding 300 grams of ham to the first recipe.
Knead the dough according to the first recipe by adding cheese. Divide the dough into medium sized balls. Grate ham on a coarse grater.
Roll the balls into thin round pancakes. Put on one filling and cover with the second, tightly fastening the edges to each other.
With a rolling pin, lightly walk on the cake to make a more even surface.
Cheese cakes are fried in a pan over low heat on both sides until a golden crust appears. Cook them under the lid so that they remain juicy.
Recommendations
- Try to finely chop the ingredients of the filling so that the bonded edges do not tear when rolling.
- It is better to use the filling rather dry, but not crumbly, so that crumbs do not pour in during the meal.
- If the ingredients in your filling are fried, it is better to degrease them on a towel or napkins.
- Regarding ham (or if you want to layer the tortilla with cheese inside) - if you use slices, use them as a sheet layer.
Khachapuri
But besides simple recipes for cheese cakes (in 15 minutes you can easily cook them according to our advice), we can offer you your favorite Georgian snack - khachapuri, which we will cook on yogurt. So, for cooking we need:
- Flour - 700 g.
- Yogurt - 500 g.
- Grated mozzarella - 450 g.
- Feta - 450 g
- Egg - 3 pieces.
- Soda - 2 tsp.
- Salt - 1 tsp.
- Butter - 50 g.
Let's start by making the dough. Mix yogurt with butter, two eggs, salt, soda. Pour the sifted flour gradually, kneading the dough with your hands. It should be soft, pliable, not stick to your hands.
Sprinkle flour on the table and knead the dough for ten minutes. Roll the dough together, put in a bowl and leave in the refrigerator for twenty minutes.
For the filling, mix two types of cheese and beat one egg. Mix until smooth. These cheese cakes are prepared in the oven, so preheat the oven to 220 degrees.
Divide the dough and form cakes, lay out the filling and close, fastening the edges with a crescent.
Khachapuri is baked for fifteen minutes. Having cooled slightly, they can be served, warm they are incredibly fragrant, soft and juicy.
In addition to cheese, you can also use any other filling or diversify it with vegetables, mushrooms, meat.
Quesadilla
Mexican tartilla cheese cake is as simple as the previous ones. Want to surprise your household with a new cheese snack? Then let's get to know the quesadillas recipe soon.
The main ingredients for the preparation of quesadillas are tortilla and cheese, the rest you can replace to taste. Thanks to chicken and ruddy cheese, this is an excellent breakfast and a cool beer snack. What do we need for her?
- Ready tortilla tortilla.
- Cheddar Cheese.
- Chicken (boiled, fried, smoked - to your taste).
- Cilantro.
- A tomato.
- Chilli.
- Garlic.
- Mexican seasoning.
Cooking process
Wash the tomato and cut into small cubes. Grind cheese with a coarse grater.
Peel and finely chop the garlic with cilantro. Pepper clear of seeds and white partitions. Finely chop it.
If necessary, cook the chicken and also chop.
We proceed to the formation of quesadilla. If the tartilla leaf is wide, the cake will be folded in half, if not, cover with a second sheet.
First, spread a layer of grated cheese. After - tomato, garlic, pepper and favorite spices. For fixing - one more plentiful layer of cheese.
Cover or fold in half the future cheese cake. Squeeze the cake a little so that the filling is evenly distributed over the tartilla.
Put it in a pan and fry on each side for five minutes. The cheese will melt, holding all the ingredients together, and the tomatoes will give the juice, garlic and spices will play in the appetizer.
Serve such delicious quesadillas with fresh vegetables, sweet peppers, your favorite hot sauces, and sour cream.
The advantage of making flat cakes with various fillings is that you can use anything you like to make snacks, your favorite foods that will always be in the refrigerator.
As you can see, making cheese cakes is quick, easy. They do not require a special list of products. And how many ways and various cooking options, fillings. Experiment, treat your family and friends, bon appetit!