Today we’ll look at how to make cheese donuts: what ingredients are needed for this, as well as step-by-step steps and tips. In addition, be sure to pay attention to other original ways of making donuts.
Essential Ingredients
The following foods should be prepared for cheese donuts:
- medium fat cottage cheese - 300 g;
- sugar - 6 tbsp. l .;
- hard cheese - 300 g;
- baking soda - 1/3 tbsp. l .;
- icing sugar - 150 g;
- salt - 1/3 tbsp. l .;
- wheat flour - by eye;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
- sunflower oil (or olive) - taken by eye.
The ingredients, the proportions of which are indicated "by eye", are added in the amount necessary for frying on a certain type of cookware or a certain number of donuts. With an increase in the amount of an ingredient, proportionally increase the number of others.
Do not use fat-free cottage cheese, as it will not roll into the ball correctly. It is best to choose cottage cheese 10-15% fat or higher.
Required Inventory
To make cheese donuts, we need a sieve with a fine mesh, a deep plate, a large flat plate, a flat dish, 2 rather deep bowls, a tray. Also prepare a tablespoon, teaspoon and fork.
Cooking Cheese Donuts with Cottage Cheese Recipe
Step 1. Spread 300 g of cottage cheese in a deep bowl. Knead thoroughly with a fork. Add the grated cheese. After pour sugar, soda and salt in the amount indicated in the ingredients. Mix thoroughly until smooth, pouring the sifted flour in parallel. It is better to sift it in advance through a sieve. The dough should turn out medium density.
Step 2. Turn on the stove. We put the oil in a pan and put it on the stove. Pour about 200 g of flour into a separate deep container. We collect in a tablespoon a lot of cottage cheese and cheese. We form with our hands a small ball. Blend it in wheat flour and put it on a large flat plate, sprinkled with a small layer of flour. Repeat until the curd mass is over.
Step 3. Check the temperature of the deep fat. To do this, roll up the crumb of bread and lower it into a pan with butter. If a large number of small bubbles appeared around the bread, then you can start frying cheese donuts in deep fat. Lower the ball after the ball to the bottom of the pan. Fry until golden brown. It is important to turn the round wheels in time so that they do not burn.
Step 4. We spread the cheese donuts on a large tray, which should first be covered with paper towels. The paper absorbs excess fat.
Serve the cheese donuts to the table
This type of dessert (or snacks, everyone calls it differently) can be served both warm and chilled. There are two types of cheese donuts:
- sprinkle with grated cheese warm donuts (so that the cheese can melt a little) and serve with sour cream or homemade cream;
- sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with whipped cream and fresh berries (blueberries, blueberries, raspberries).
Of course, you can come up with your own type of serving, for example, adding a ball of ice cream and a leaf of mint.
Chef Tips
So that everything works out as best as possible, listen to these tips:
- Vanilla sugar, coconut syrup or cinnamon can be added to the curd mass to enhance the taste. In addition, some cooks add chopped nuts or finely chopped dried fruits. Everything is limited by taste preferences and flight of imagination.
- If cottage cheese with a low fat content is selected, it is best to grind it first through a sieve with a fine mesh and only then add it to other ingredients. It is also better to do with wheat flour. This allows you to make the flour more loose, as well as get rid of excess litter, which may be in the package.
- When frying donuts in a pan, use refined sunflower oil, it does not foam, and also does not have a pronounced aroma.
Other cooking methods
The recipe tells how to make donuts using a deep fat fryer, but you can make cheese donuts in an oven or slow cooker.
Consider initially the cooking process in a slow cooker. Pour oil into the bowl and turn on the "Deep Fry", or "Fry" mode in the absence of the first. We warm the oil for 1-2 minutes. After that, drop a few balls into the bowl, stirring immediately so that they float up. Fry donuts no more than 7 minutes. They should acquire a golden hue. During frying, donuts increase in size, so you need to take this moment into account and fry a few balls, and not throw everything at once.
When making cheese donuts in the oven, the process remains the same. On a baking sheet it is necessary to lay parchment, plentifully greased with butter or olive oil. We place donuts on it so that when swelling, they do not touch each other. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and send the donuts to fry for 7-10 minutes, depending on the capacity of the oven. After 5 minutes, you can check the readiness of the dish, as well as turn the donuts from one side to the other so that they are fried evenly. Be careful with a preheated oven so as not to burn yourself.
Raw donuts - a delicious, but very high-calorie dessert, as it contains butter, cheese and cottage cheese itself. It is also cooked in large quantities of oil, regardless of the method of preparation: deep-fried, oven or slow cooker. Therefore, you should not get carried away with appetizers, no more than 5 pieces in 1 serving, so nutritionists advise.
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