Many of us love curvy, airy donuts. This is especially true for children. There are a huge number of recipes for this dessert: apple, caramel, cherry.
Today we consider recipes for cottage cheese donuts, which, in turn, can be prepared in different ways. For example, with or without filling. In any case, their proper preparation guarantees a stunning success with tasting.
Those who do not like sweets can prepare a salty dessert.
Cottage cheese donuts are very simple and quick to knead. The plastic dough that turns out makes it easy to hide any filling. It can be all kinds of dried fruits, nuts and candied fruits.
Donuts and cottage cheese: a classic recipe
In shape, they can be in the form of balls or bagels. Also, they can be shaped like a bagel or any other that you like.
Donuts with cottage cheese (photos of some ingredients are given below) do not require large expenditures:
- half a kilogram of cottage cheese;
- four chicken eggs;
- half a glass of sugar;
- one tablespoon of sour cream;
- half a bag of baking powder (if it is not there, then you can put out a pinch of soda with vinegar);
- a bag of vanilla sugar;
- powdered sugar is needed to sprinkle ready-made donuts;
- vegetable oil is necessary for frying;
- eight hundred grams of wheat flour.
Getting down to cooking
In this case, an ordinary store cottage cheese of medium fat content is suitable. At the first stage, we rub it with eggs, ordinary and vanilla sugar. After mixing all the ingredients, add to them a baking powder or slaked vinegar.
Now add the flour. It must be sifted in order to saturate the dough with oxygen. Otherwise, it may turn out to be clogged, and then the donuts will not be elastic, but tight. Add flour gradually as you knead. The dough should be moderately tight and moderately soft so that it can form well, but not stick to your hands.
After the dough is well mixed, put it on the surface sprinkled with flour. Sprinkle lightly on top, so that in the process it does not stick to your hands. We roll out a layer from five to seven millimeters thick.
Now proceed to the formation of donuts. With us, they should turn out in the form of a donut. To do this, you need to take a two-gram glass and a glass.
We squeeze out larger circles from the dough with a glass. And already in the middle of each circle we make a smaller circle with the help of a shot glass - these will be our holes.
Next, prepare the container in which the donuts will be fried. It is better to do this in a deep fryer, but in the absence of it we can get by with a small pan. We pour vegetable oil into it for at least three centimeters and warm it well. Then, using a slotted spoon, lower the donuts and fry them on both sides.
Since the product fried in butter donuts from cottage cheese is quite oily, it is better to lay them out (after you get it from the deep fat) on a paper napkin. Oil thus drains and everything remains on paper. Then put them on a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Raspberry Donuts
Now consider the preparation of round donuts with raspberry filling.
This recipe is perfect if you want something sweet for tea, but there is no time to prepare cakes or pies.
You will need the following products for making fried cottage cheese donuts with raspberry filling:
- one chicken egg;
- two hundred grams of cottage cheese with a fat content of nine percent;
- four tablespoons of sugar (if you are a sweet tooth, you can take more);
- half a teaspoon of baking powder or as much soda slaked with vinegar;
- one glass of flour, but if necessary it will be possible to add (it all depends on which dough will be obtained, it should not be liquid);
- vanilla sugar;
- raspberry jam or fresh raspberries (depends on what time of the year you cook);
- vegetable oil for frying, it is best to use refined, but if you are deep-fried, it is better to take a special one.
Step by step recipe for cottage cheese donuts with photo
Instead of raspberries, you can use any berry.
Beat the eggs well with a whisk (you can use a mixer) until foam is formed. Then gradually introduce sugar and beat until air mass is formed.
Add the cottage cheese to the container with the egg-sugar mixture, rub everything again until a homogeneous mass is formed. Rub it with a fork.
Next, you need to mix the flour with baking powder and sift it directly into the dough. When using slaked soda vinegar, flour must first be sifted, then mix all the ingredients and only then add to the curd mass.
Pour in vanilla sugar, which will give the dough a light aroma.
When all the ingredients are combined and mixed, proceed to kneading the dough with your hands. It should turn out plastic and soft. It is allowed that it be slightly sticky, but at the same time it is well enough separated from the hands. If it is very liquid, you can add flour, but make sure that the dough is not very dense. In this case, the donuts will not be soft, but hard.
After the dough is kneaded, roll out small cakes of approximately the same size from it.
With a teaspoon in the middle we spread raspberry jam. If you use fresh berries, then add sugar to the filling. Carefully close the dough and roll up the ball with your hands. So that the dough does not stick to the skin during the formation, we lubricate the hands with vegetable oil.
We begin to prepare the deep fat. We pour more than one glass of oil into the pan and put it on the fire. We heat the oil and lower our curd balls. You can send a few to the pot at a time. At the same time, they must always be stirred so that they are evenly browned.
We get the donuts with a slotted spoon, put it on a napkin, so that the glass of oil is from them. After we send to the dish in which we will serve dessert. While the donuts are hot, they can be sprinkled with powdered sugar through a sieve or pour over melted chocolate.
Now it's time to enjoy the raspberry-filled airy dessert.
American milk donuts
This dessert is very popular in America. There they are eaten by kilograms and, perhaps, there is no such mistress who would not know how to cook them. But you should take into account the fact that they are very high-calorie, so eating them every day is undesirable.
Calculation of ingredients for 40 donuts:
- half a liter of warm milk;
- one and a half tablespoons of yeast;
- four tablespoons of sugar;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- fifty grams of softened butter;
- three egg yolks;
- two hundred grams of fat cottage cheese;
- several grams of vanilla sugar (one pack);
- four glasses of flour;
Glaze Ingredients:
- a glass of powdered sugar;
- half a glass of milk.
Getting down to cooking
Knead the yeast dough. To do this is not difficult, of course, if there is a bread machine. It is enough to mix all the ingredients and wait until it is ready. If you do not have a bread machine, then you need to make a dough on milk. Then add sugar, flour, a little salt to it. The consistency of the dough should resemble sour cream. Leave it for half an hour in a warm place.
After that, introduce the remaining ingredients one by one, then start kneading the dough.
We roll it (on a floured surface) with a thickness of not more than three millimeters. With the help of a glass and a glass, we begin to cut donuts. After that, leave our bagels from the dough for an hour under a covered towel.
We start to cook deep fat. Heat the butter until it starts to hiss, and lower the donuts into it. We fry them from all sides until cooked. We get it, leave it on a paper towel.
Cooking Frosting
We heat the milk so that it is warm; we do not bring it to a boil. Gray over low heat. Gradually introduce powdered sugar, stir until a viscous mass forms.
It should be enough to lower the donuts.
As soon as the mass becomes viscous, lower the donut into it, but only on one side. Put it on a plate and let the glaze harden. After that, the American donuts are ready to eat.
Below you can see on the photo donuts from cottage cheese according to the recipe above.
Curd donuts with condensed milk (on vodka)
Preparing the dough for 16 servings.
Required Products:
- two chicken eggs;
- five yolks;
- one kilogram of wheat flour;
- one hundred grams of butter;
- one hundred and fifty grams of sugar;
- cottage cheese of medium fat content;
- one pack of vanilla sugar;
- one lemon;
- fifty milliliters of vodka;
- four hundred grams of boiled condensed milk;
- powdered sugar for dusting;
- cooking oil for frying.
Glaze Ingredients:
- milk chocolate;
- cocoa;
- milk.
Step-by-step process
It takes about two hours to cook the donuts.
Step number 1. In the container we combine the sugar with the yolks. Beat well.
Step number 2. Separately, using a fork, grind the cottage cheese with sugar. We squeeze a lemon here, add alcohol, warm milk and lemon zest.
Step number 3. After that, we combine both masses and mix well.
Step number 4. Sift the flour and gradually add to the grated mass. The process of kneading the dough begins.
Step number 5. We proceed to the formation of balls. Roll out the dough with a sausage, cut the same pieces. They, in turn, are rolled out so that you can place the filling. We close the dough and form balls with our hands.
Step number 6. On the stove we heat the oil and begin to lower our donuts into it. Fry on all sides and spread on paper to drain.
Getting started with the glaze
There are two ways to do this.
If you decide to make it from milk chocolate, then you need to prepare a water bath in which we will melt it. After that, pour each donut with chocolate and wait until it cools down.
In the second case, it is necessary to heat the milk, dissolve the cocoa in it and cook until a thick mass forms. Without turning off the fire, drop the donuts in the pan. We wait until the icing hardens.
All cottage cheese donuts in oil prepared according to this recipe are ready. Enjoy your meal!