Cottage cheese is widely used in the recipe of dishes of various cuisines of the world as a delicious and healthy product. It contains trace elements and vitamins in large quantities. There are many famous dishes with cottage cheese as an ingredient. And if this product, as a rule, is associated in some with sweet desserts, in this article more attention is paid to dishes that use salted and seasoned with spices. Cottage cheese with herbs and garlic just belongs to such dishes.
Appetizer and Filling
It is characterized by a sharp taste, pleasant aroma, the ability to spread on croutons or dried bread. Preparing such an appetizer (cottage cheese with herbs and garlic) is quite simple. Cooking takes just a few minutes.
We need: a pound of cottage cheese, half a glass of non-fat sour cream, a bunch of green onions, a bunch of greens (dill, cilantro, parsley, basil), a couple of garlic cloves, salt and pepper.
Cooking
We prepare cottage cheese with herbs and garlic according to the following scheme. We knead the main product with a fork, pouring sour cream (you can use a blender to form a lush, homogeneous mass). Finely chop all the greens. Mix with the mass prepared in a blender or manually. Squeeze the garlic and mix with the main part. Salt and pepper to taste. If we want to get a cream paste, easily spread on croutons, it is not superfluous to whip the whole mixture again in a blender. Such a cream can be packaged in jars and kept in the refrigerator. It is very convenient, for example, to use the prepared pasta in the morning for delicious sandwiches, but in this case we recommend putting less garlic there. If served as a salad, then in a blender it is better not to beat, but to knead manually.
Cottage cheese with herbs in pita bread
Thin Armenian pita bread has taken root in our kitchens. With it, you can cook a lot of quick interesting dishes. Such dishes include cottage cheese with herbs and garlic, baked in pita bread in the oven. In addition, the main advantage is the lack of fuss with the dough, as the Armenian product successfully replaces it.
Ingredients: half a kilo of low-fat cottage cheese, two Armenian pita bread (thin), five eggs, half a glass of sour cream, assorted greens.
Cooking
Mix greens, cottage cheese, two eggs until smooth. On the sheets of pita bread we evenly distribute the cooked mass. We twist each pita bread into a roll with cottage cheese and herbs. We put the rolls on a greased baking dish. Beat sour cream with the remaining eggs, add salt and pepper to taste. Each rolled roll with cottage cheese, egg and greens is greased with the resulting mass from above. We bake the dish in the oven, heated to 180 degrees to a golden crust (the product is cooked very quickly - look do not miss, so that the dish does not burn). We take out the finished baked goods from the oven and allow to cool. Next - cut into portioned rolls and serve, laid out on a large plate.
Envelopes
As an option, small rectangular envelopes can be made from pita bread. Inside, put all the same stuffing and carefully wrap it crosswise. Top smear. Bake under the same conditions for a short time. These envelopes are similar in taste to small khachapuri.
Pie with cottage cheese and herbs
You can make an open pie with the same filling. To do this, buy puff pastry in the store, defrost and roll into thin sheets. Of course, if there is such a desire, you can prepare the dough yourself (we already use the most familiar and proven way here). Filling, made according to the above recipe, spread one sheet, and cover with the second, connecting the edges. In the middle we leave a rather large hole so that the cake can breathe. Top the pie with a beaten egg. Bake in the oven at medium temperature until cooked (check with a match).
Scones
This dish can also be classified as fast. You will need: three glasses of flour, a glass of water, a couple of spoons of vegetable oil, three eggs, a pinch of soda, salt, 300 grams of friable cottage cheese, greens.
Cooking cakes with cottage cheese
Drive one egg into the flour, put soda, vegetable oil. We make the dough and set it aside to rest. We prepare the filling: finely chop the boiled eggs, finely chop the greens. Combine with cottage cheese. Mix. From the dough we make thin small cakes (roll out with a rolling pin). Place the filling in the center of each tortilla and pinch the edges, making the tortillas flat. In a frying pan in hot oil, quickly fry our flat cakes on both sides until they are rosy. We take it out on napkins to remove excess fat. Such a quickly cooked dish can be eaten immediately, hot, or you can put it in the refrigerator and serve it, for example, for breakfast with sour cream sauce. It turns out very tasty. Especially children like to drag small “buns” from under their hands so that you just don't have time to cook them!