Cottage cheese is a tasty and nutritious dish made from a natural fermented milk product. It is also prepared in the form of a special cake with the addition of flour, semolina or rice, with dried fruits or spices. We bring to your attention several pleasant and interesting recipes that have long been common in Russian and Ukrainian national cuisine.
Sweet curd cheese with raisins
To make such a curd,
from the cottage cheese you need to cook a soft, airy mass. To do this, it is either passed through a fine grinder of a meat grinder or carefully rubbed through a hair sieve. Or chopped with a blender. The product requires approximately 1 kg. Prepared cottage cheese is placed in a pan, sugar (350 g) is added to it, a pinch of salt is added, after which the mass should boil over medium heat for a minute and a half. Then, in the future cottage cheese from the cottage cheese, somewhat chilled, you need to drive 2 chicken eggs. The mass is well kneaded, better with hands, and again put on gas to warm up. At this stage, the remaining products are added to the billet: 2-3 tablespoons of butter, a few handfuls of washed and dried raisins, 100 g of chopped candied fruit.
Again, the semi-finished curd cheese should be mixed to evenly distribute the components. Pour vanilla, stir, warm for 5 minutes in a water bath. At the end of cooking, the whole cheese mass is laid out on a dish, a cone is formed from it with a spoon and a spatula, put in a cool place for half an hour. Ready-made curd cheese is poured with sweet and sour berry syrup or a mixture of syrup and sour cream and served.
Cottage cheese with caraway seeds
If you prefer spicy dishes, we will pick up a good recipe for your taste. By analogy with the cooking method described above, you can make another treat, only not with raisins, but with caraway seeds.
We think it will appeal to those who are wondering about how to make cottage cheese from cottage cheese with herbs and spices. A dairy product (500 g) is prepared as in the first recipe. Heats up, salt, ground herbs and 3 tablespoons of butter are added to it. Then the workpiece is removed from the heat, cool. 15 g of caraway seeds are poured into the
curd mass , finely chopped dill greens, squeezed garlic (3-4 cloves), a little black pepper are mixed in. Once again, you need to knead and cool in a cool place. Cottage cheese is poured with mayonnaise and mustard sauce, served as a hot appetizer.
Hungarian curd
We talked about
how to cook cottage cheese from cottage cheese without flour. Now we will talk about baking. For a new dish you will need: 300 g of cottage cheese, a glass of flour, 3-4 tablespoons of sugar, zest of half a large lemon, 50-60 g. cream, 2 eggs, a little salt. Cottage cheese is chopped. The yolks and squirrels of the eggs are separated. The yolks are placed immediately in the cottage cheese, sugar and salt, vanilla, lemon peel are poured into it, cream is poured, everything mixes well. Separately, you need to beat the whites in a strong foam and gently mix with the curd. Put it on a baking sheet, put in a warm oven, bake until golden brown.
Served with cottage cheese, according to Hungarian customs, a salad of fresh cucumbers and radishes with sour cream and green onions.
Bon appetite!