Cheesecakes - a dish that rarely leaves you indifferent. Someone loves them salty, some - sweet, but recipes are usually designed for a sweet tooth, because the dish is often prepared for children who do not want to use dairy products in any way. In the article we will familiarize ourselves with the diet recipes for cottage cheese pancakes with cornmeal.
In Russian cuisine, every housewife knows how to cook this delicacy from cottage cheese, lush, tasty and healthy. If you take the classic recipe for cheesecakes as a basis, you can experiment as much as you like.
Cooking Highlights
Since cheesecakes are not very difficult to cook, any housewife can feel confident, even an inexperienced girl will cope with this task in two ways. The main thing is to stick to the base. And in this case, it is cottage cheese, egg, sugar, salt, a spoonful of flour. Cakes are easily formed and fried in a pan until cooked. But, if you want to get the most out of a traditional dish, then you can replace the wheat flour with corn. Believe me, cheesecakes only benefit from this!
Culinary recommendations for cheesecakes
So, before you start cooking, it is worth considering several important points:
Cottage cheese is the basis of this dish, so special attention is paid to it. The base should not contain excess moisture, so it must be wrung out well. Due to excess serum, the product will turn out to be “rubber”. Cottage cheese must be grinded with a blender or passed through a sieve to get a uniform consistency.
Curd is not always diluted with flour (in this case, we use corn). If someone wants to get the most useful cheesecakes, then this ingredient can be omitted. However, it is a small amount of flour that balances the liquid and gives a dense structure to the curd mass, so this is an important component. By the way, even cottage cheese products without flour must be sprinkled with flour before frying - they can crumble without breading.
Typically, cottage cheese pancakes are fried in quality vegetable oil. And you can cook diet cheesecakes with cornmeal in the oven or steamed - from this they will only become more useful!
Cheesecakes are both simple and with the addition of raisins, fruits (apples, pears, dried apricots), vegetables (potatoes, carrots), greens.
What is the calorie content of curd products?
Cottage cheese pancakes with cornmeal are a rather tasty, but also moderately high-calorie dish - about 130 kcal per 100 grams, in contrast to products with wheat flour (183 kcal). However, it is worth remembering that any additives increase the energy value of products up to 200 kilocalories and more.
But if you choose the right ingredients and method of preparation, you can get yourself a dietary dish. In addition, the calorie content of cheesecakes can be controlled using cottage cheese of the desired fat content.
Recipe for cottage cheese pancakes with cornmeal - saving a young mom!
Now we will analyze the recipe for cottage cheese, which conquered more than one hostess. He especially helps those who want to cook not only with love, but also for the benefit of their family. Corn flour is considered almost a unique product - with it cheesecakes not only do not harm the figure, they also have an excellent taste.
For the preparation of classic cheesecakes with corn flour (calculation for 5-6 products) we take:
- 1 chicken egg (if desired, can be replaced with two quail);
- 200 grams of fat-free cottage cheese;
- 1 tablespoon of corn flour for dough;
- half a teaspoon of granulated sugar (if the curd does not acidify, you can do without it);
- 1 tablespoon chopped candied fruit / raisins;
- 3 tablespoons of cornmeal for breading;
- refined vegetable oil for frying.
Cooking classic cheesecakes
First you need to mix the cottage cheese with sugar and egg, then add candied fruit / raisins. If you want, you can grind the cottage cheese through a sieve, so the curd mass will turn out more tender.
Then you need to add flour, mix again. Then take the board, sprinkle it with flour, scoop the curd mass and use the knife and fork to shape the cheesecakes using flour to sprinkle. You can do this with your hands, but with a knife or spoon your hands will be clean. Next, you need to fry the cheesecakes in a hot frying pan with a small amount of oil on both sides until golden brown.
A little trick to the hostesses! You can fry cheesecakes with cornmeal on high heat on one side, and make it quieter on the other side. Excess oil on curd products can be removed with a paper towel or napkin.
An unusual recipe for cheesecakes with cornmeal
In the photo presented in the article, you can see how the finished product will look. However, in life cheesecakes are not always so pretty and rosy. The reason for this is the wrong amount of flour used - it’s too much, and the hockey pucks are tight, it’s too little, and the products spread over the pan, turning into shapeless and sloppy cakes. It is corn flour in combination with cottage cheese that helps to achieve perfect elasticity and density of the dough - it is perfectly molded and in texture resembles a juicy French juanois.
So, we need the following components:
- 300 grams of nonfat dry cottage cheese;
- 3 tablespoons wholemeal cornmeal;
- 1 tablespoon of brown sugar;
- half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon;
- 1 fresh chicken egg;
- one teaspoon of almond extract;
- one tablespoon of lemon zest;
- lingonberry jam for serving (optional).
Cooking cheesecakes with jam
We spread the cottage cheese in a deep bowl, break the egg, add to the cottage cheese. Pour sugar, grind cottage cheese with egg and sugar with a spatula or tablespoon until a homogeneous paste is obtained.
Add the lemon zest to the resulting mass, rub it thoroughly with cottage cheese again. Then pour a teaspoon of almond extract and mix everything.
Add ground cinnamon and two tablespoons of cornmeal. Mix the mass thoroughly - as a result, the dough should turn out to be quite dense, and not stick to your hands.
We form neat round cheesecakes. Pour a little cornmeal into a bowl or plate and roll each cottage cheese in it. Shake the excess back into the bowl.
Next, heat vegetable oil in a wide frying pan, fry the products until golden brown. We shift ready cheesecakes with cornmeal to a wide dish.
Let's start serving. We spread 5-6 tablespoons of lingonberry jam on serving plates, after wiping it through a sieve, so that a homogeneous berry mass is obtained.
On top of the syrup we spread the cheesecakes with cornmeal - a few pieces per serving.
Garnish each serving with fresh mint leaves and serve right away, while the items are still warm. Enjoy your meal!
Bake cheese cakes in the oven
We take the following components for our products:
- low-calorie cottage cheese - 0.5 kg;
- 2 fresh chicken eggs;
- half a bag of vanilla sugar;
- 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar;
- grams 30 raisins / candied fruits;
- bag of shop baking powder;
- 2 tablespoons of high-quality cornmeal;
- 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil.
Mix cottage cheese with egg, sugar and vanilla. Add raisins / candied fruits. Enter the flour with baking powder, mix again.
We take a board, pour flour on it for breading. Scoop out the curd mass, form cheese cakes, pre-roll them in flour.
Cover the baking sheet with baking paper, grease with oil. Gently shift the syrniki onto paper, cover with a sheet of foil from above. We put the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 170 degrees. Cheesecakes are baked from 10 to 15 minutes. After that, remove the foil and turn the cheesecakes on the white side. We keep them in the oven for another five minutes.