If you are thinking about what would be so interesting and satisfying to cook for breakfast, then the answer is ready. These are tortillas with cheese. They are tasty, nutritious, and cook them very quickly. In addition, dairy products in the morning are very beneficial for the body. They can be washed down with coffee and tea, compote and liquid yogurt, kefir and fermented baked milk. Such cakes are in Russian, Ukrainian and other Slavic cuisines. They are loved by Turks, Greeks, Arabs and other inhabitants of the Mediterranean. Moreover, cheese cakes are popular in other countries - from India to Mexico. And each kitchen stores its own recipes for their preparation. They can be fried in a pan, bake in the oven. If you have modern kitchen devices, then such cakes are cooked in a slow cooker. You can make them not only with cheese, but also with various additives - spinach, minced meat, potatoes, onions, mushrooms ... You can’t list all the fillings. But here we give the simplest home-made recipes that will not take you much time. No wonder they were popularly called lazy khachapuri.
Classic Slavic variant
These products are prepared very easily and can be of help at any time - when you are in a hurry, waiting for friends for tea or just want a quick snack. Cheese cakes made on kefir. We take it one glass. Add half a teaspoon of salt, soda and sugar there. Stir everything until completely dissolved. Now, roughly three hard cheese. He will need a glass. And we take twice as much flour as cheese. Knead the dough. Divide into koloboks. We roll out a small cake from each. Now for about two minutes, fry the products in a pan, which we preheat. You can take any odorless fat for this, but refined sunflower oil is best. The fire should be medium. Cheese cakes in a pan are fried on both sides. During this process, it is best to keep them under the lid. When the cake is fried, the cheese melts and the dough becomes porous. She just melts in her mouth. And after preparing the product, it is better to lay it on a paper towel for a couple of minutes. Then the excess fat drains.
Complicated recipe
If you want to get instant cakes for breakfast, but those that are tasty both hot and cold, try the following recipe. Take two chicken eggs. Break them into a bowl. Shake with a fork. Then add 2 tablespoons of very oily sour cream to them. Pour in the flour. Her we will go three or four large spoons with the top. Now chop the bunch of greens and add to the dough. And in the end, rub not too finely 100 grams of hard cheese. Our dough will come out a little liquid. It must be mixed so that the cheese is evenly distributed. Such cakes with cheese and herbs are fried like pancakes. You heat the pan, pour a little oil, pour a quarter of the mixture and cook over medium heat for about seven minutes on each side. Turn them over very carefully so that they do not tear.
With cottage cheese
There is another interesting recipe for cheese cakes in a pan. The dough for them is also made on kefir. But, in addition to hard cheese, they also add curd filling. Knead the dough first. To do this, you need one and a half glasses of flour. Mix with it half a teaspoon of soda, salt and sugar. Add one glass of kefir and grated hard cheese. Knead the dough quickly, it is soft and does not stick to your hands. 400 grams of fat homemade cottage cheese a little salt. Mash thoroughly with a fork and add a bunch of chopped dill there (in spring you can use bear onions or wild leek). We divide the dough into several koloboks. We knead each of them with our hands and put a little cottage cheese. We connect and pinch the edges. Roll out lightly to make cakes. Fry in a pan, as in previous recipes. You can add hard cheese or feta cheese to the filling.
In the oven
But not only in the pan, you can cook delicious and quick cakes with cheese. In the oven, they also work very well. Here is one of the recipes for a light and airy, almost biscuit product. We take two chicken eggs. Separate the yolks and squirrels. Beat the last with a mixer, but not to hardness. Grind the yolks with two tablespoons of flour. Add 100 grams of grated cheese to this mixture. Rubbing everything again. Now, very carefully, so as not to fall, we introduce proteins. Then add salt and pepper to taste. Pour into the form. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Bake no more than ten minutes. We check the readiness with a match - if the dough is not left on the tree, then you can take it out. By the way, such cakes can be used as the basis for gourmet sandwiches. For example, they go very well with light-salted red fish and balsamic cream, decorated with capers or chopped olives.
With different fillings
Let’s try now to make cheese cakes with toppings. We have already seen how they are cooked with cottage cheese. But the recipes of these products give scope for culinary imagination. The dough for them is kneaded ordinary, kefir, and, of course, with the addition of hard cheese. But the fillings can be very diverse. If you are waiting for guests to arrive, but there is no time, finely chop the sausage or ham. A good spring option is to make a filling of green onions and eggs. These ingredients must be ground before adding. In a more festive version of the same filling, you can mix onions and eggs with crumbled mozzarella. Sometimes in the middle of the cakes spread a thin layer of minced meat, as for cutlets. Such products are also fried in a pan in a large amount of oil.
Gadazelili
Now let's see how cheese cakes are made in Georgia. But here we will not get by with the products listed above. For the preparation of such snack foods in this country there are special types of cheese - salted. And the Georgians believe that it is impossible to replace them with anything. Therefore, for such a cake we need suluguni cheese - about 600 grams. It is cut into thin slices. If the suluguni turned out to be too salty, then it is soaked in water for a couple of hours. Then we take the pan. We pour two liters of milk there - best of all fatty, home-made. Put the chopped cheese. We cook it in milk until it softens, and often stir so that it does not stick. After that, leave the pan over low heat, and remove the cheese. Rub it with a spoon in a bowl, sometimes pouring milk in which it was boiled until it was completely softened to a puree mass.
The final stage of cooking gadazelili
The Georgian cheese tortilla recipe, as we see, is significantly different from the classic one. They take longer to cook. We must not only grind part of the cheese, but also send this mass back to the pan with milk. Then we do the same with the remaining Suluguni. And so we do until all the cheese is completely dissolved in milk. Cook this mass over low heat until it thickens. There you will need to add half a bunch of mint greens, fresh cilantro and basil. But if so many herbs are bothering you, you can reduce it to taste. When the mass becomes thick enough, it is shaped like cakes. They are served on the table immediately and watered with the rest of the milk. Connoisseurs of Georgian cuisine believe that gadazelili is one of the most delicious dishes in this country, made from cheese.
Gozleme
This is probably the most popular cheese cake among Russians. Not without reason, many of them praise them, having visited Turkey, especially in hotels with an all-inclusive system. But to make them at home is very simple. The dough is made from flour, water, olive oil and salt. The ingredients are simple to impossible. Three cakes take 100 grams of flour, 60 ml of water and half a tablespoon of oil. The dough is kneading very quickly. Then it is rolled into a ball and left to stand in the refrigerator. After that, the kolobok is divided into three parts and very thinly rolled out according to the type of exhaust dough. Then crumble the feta cheese mixed with spicy greens. This filling is distributed in a thin layer on the surface of each cake. Products are wrapped with an "envelope". Well, then they are fried in the same olive oil in a pan until they are browned. Before serving, they can be greased with sour cream, served with sauce or without anything at all. The classic Turkish version is cheese cakes. But they can be made with mushrooms, and with stewed spinach, and with minced meat.