It is unlikely that anyone will consider it an exaggeration to say that everyone loves ice cream. Some people like it more, others less. However, nobody will refuse a portion of a sweet cold treat. And there are those who are completely crazy about ice cream, but they cannot eat it for some reason. For example, because it has a lot of calories.
Yet what an amazing people the culinary experts are! Literally from every position they are able to find a way out. You can’t eat ice cream in unlimited quantities, but still you really want to treat yourself to a cold dessert? No problem! Make cottage cheese ice cream! So with one shot you will kill not two, but three whole birds with one stone. First, significantly reduce the calorie content of the product for yourself. Secondly, you can feed your children so useful, but not always your favorite cottage cheese. Moreover, you will be able to disguise it in such a treat that the child will not even understand that, it turns out, this is the third time that he has required the addition of such a hated dairy product. And thirdly, having prepared homemade ice cream from cottage cheese, you will be completely confident in its quality. After all, it’s a sin to hide, today this delicacy does not always meet the requirements of the recipe and sometimes contains a bunch of all kinds of harmful fillers. It is not for nothing that today all kinds of dishes and goodies with a “taste from childhood” are so popular.
Next, we will tell you in detail how to make ice cream from cottage cheese. The recipes for its preparation are quite simple, so there should be no problems in the manufacture of a new treat.
Basic principles of cooking
Cottage cheese, as you know, has a granular consistency. In addition, quite often you can find large lumps in it. Therefore, when making ice cream from cottage cheese at home, it is advisable to have a blender available. It is this kitchen assistant that will help turn a dairy product into a homogeneous mass. If there is none, you will have to arm yourself with a strainer to thoroughly grind the cottage cheese. This is a prerequisite and a must when preparing a homemade treat.
As for the fat content of cottage cheese. This question is somewhat controversial. On the one hand, in order for ice cream from cottage cheese to be as similar as possible to the present, it is required that it possess some oily consistency. It is it that gives fat content. On the other hand, if the focus is not on the issue of identity, but on the calorie issue, then it is better to take a dairy product with a minimum fat content. So you have to decide. As for the ideal option in terms of taste, home cottage cheese is most suitable for cooking. Although it will take longer to tinker with it.
As for the extra ingredients. There are no restrictions here. You can make, for example, plain ice cream from cottage cheese with vanilla, or you can add yogurt, cream, condensed milk, berries, bananas and other ingredients to it. In general, the composition can be varied at your own discretion and taste.
The same goes for the shape of the dessert. It can be cooked in a large container, and then put with balls on a plate, or it can be portioned. No one bothers you to make ice cream from cottage cheese on a stick or even a whole cake. In general, fantasy is unlimited. However, now you will see for yourself.
Simple Curd Ice Cream: Ingredients
To prepare this dessert, the hostess needs to stock up on a bag of vanillin, a glass of cream, a few tablespoons of sugar or one icing sugar and, naturally, cottage cheese. It will be enough to take four hundred grams. In addition, it is desirable to have molds (for example, jars of yogurt) or small bowls.
How to cook
Everything is very simple. Place the cottage cheese in a container, add to it all other ingredients (except vanillin) and beat with a blender until, as a result, you get a creamy mass. Then gently pour the vanillin and whisk again quickly. After that, put it in the molds and send it to the freezer. Minimum 5 hours.
We complicate the task
True, not due to the preparation procedure itself, but by introducing additional components. Let's try to make ice cream from cottage cheese and condensed milk. Why do we need a pound of milk product and a jar of condensed milk. You can take both regular and boiled.
Cooking
Previously, thoroughly grind the curd with a blender. If not, then pass through a sieve. Then we add condensed milk into it and again work with a blender (in the absence we replace it with a mixer). Then we take small molds in the form of stars, hearts, etc. and fill them with the resulting mass. Important! If the molds are not silicone, they must be coated with something, for example, with cling film. Otherwise, getting dessert will be quite difficult. After that, we again send the molds to the freezer. Five hours later (possibly more, since the time of freezing depends on the “advancement” of the camera) we take it out and wrap each figure in foil. And again we send to the freezer. Immediately prior to serving, the figures must be freed from the foil and put on a plate. If desired, you can pour some syrup or sprinkle with grated chocolate.
By the way, if you think that there is too much condensed milk (due to sweetness or, say, calorie content), feel free to replace half of it with the same amount of regular milk. Ice cream made from cottage cheese and condensed milk, the recipe for which, as you noticed, is extremely simple, will not get any worse.
Apple-curd ice cream
To prepare such a dessert, the hostess needs to stock up with a bag of cottage cheese (the standard package usually weighs 250 g), vanilla sugar and icing sugar (one teaspoon each), cinnamon (one pinch will be enough) and a big sweet apple. The latter must be peeled and mashed with a blender. After that, add cottage cheese, vanilla sugar, cinnamon and powder to it and mix everything thoroughly again in the same blender. Then, traditionally distribute in molds and send to the freezer for four to five hours. Important: before serving, it is advisable to hold the dessert a little, at least ten minutes, at room temperature so that it does not taste like frozen ice.
Curd Banana Dessert
Three ripe large bananas to peel, cut and mashed with a blender. Then add to them a pound of homemade cottage cheese and one hundred grams of sugar. Stir thoroughly again. After this, the ice cream must be laid out in tins and put in the freezer. It is advisable to mix it at least several times during the first three hours. By the way, this technique is applicable to almost every option for making curd ice cream with fillers. Stirring (at least once per hour) contributes to a more uniform hardening of this wonderful dessert.
Option for a festive table
Originally designed, this dessert can become a real decoration of the festive table. We suggest you familiarize yourself with one of the cooking options. Combine half a kilogram of this homemade curd with a bag of vanilla sugar and a can of condensed milk and mix well in a blender. Transfer a third of the resulting mass to another container and mix with a few tablespoons of cocoa. Then take a bowl. Put in them the first layer of white ice cream on the bottom, sprinkle with cherry (fresh or canned - it doesn’t matter). Then put a layer of cottage cheese with cocoa on the berries, and again a white mass over it. Garnish with cherries. In general, the principle is clear. The number of layers depends on the size of the dishes, so repeat the procedure until you fill the dishes to the top. It is desirable that the top layer is white. Garnish it with berries and sprinkle with grated chocolate. Send bowls to the freezer.
Cottage cheese and fruit ice cream cake
Pound a kilogram of cottage cheese through a sieve or process in a blender. Pour a can of condensed milk into it, add a tablespoon of starch and beat the mass with a mixer. Choose a suitable shape in size (you can take a plastic from an already eaten cake), cover it with cling film. Then cover the bottom with a layer of curd. Stack chopped peaches tightly on top of it. Then again comes a layer of cottage cheese. Lay a layer of grapes on it. Then again cottage cheese + peaches + cottage cheese + grapes. Well and so on to the top of the form. Make the last layer from the curd mass, and you can decorate it with anything - chocolate, berries, jelly sweets. Keep in the freezer for six hours until cooked.
Conclusion
Now you know what homemade ice cream is with cottage cheese. How to cook it, we told you in detail. In principle, as you may have noticed, the process is simple. But the dessert options themselves can be many. Just turn on the fantasy.