What hostess does not want to please her home with delicious and satisfying breakfasts? Unfortunately, sometimes there is not enough time for cooking. We offer you a simple and quick option - lazy cheesecakes. It is he who will save the situation, because the dish does not require a lot of time to prepare.
Why are syrniki lazy?
There are more and more “lazy” recipes today: lazy cabbage rolls, lazy dumplings, dumplings, even cakes can be lazy. Where did all these lazy people come from? Of course, from the lack of time and the desire of the housewives to eat properly. The lazy cottage cheese pancakes, which will be discussed today, are so called because they are prepared very quickly and almost without adding flour. As a rule, in a traditional grandmother's recipe for syrniki it is used in large quantities. Sometimes even a special yeast dough is kneaded. This dish will be both quick at hand and dietary, which is very good for families who prefer proper nutrition.
Ingredients
To cook lazy cheesecakes, you will need: 250 grams of cottage cheese, a couple of chicken eggs, two tablespoons of fat sour cream, one or two tablespoons of flour, two tablespoons of granulated sugar, a little salt, lemon or orange peel. Very tasty and mouth-watering are obtained lazy cottage cheese pancakes. The recipe involves the addition of raisins. You can use this ingredient, but you can do without it.
Cooking process
In a large bowl, you need to knead the cottage cheese with a fork and add sour cream to it, drive in the eggs. Stirring to a homogeneous mass, pour sugar into it, throw a pinch of salt. You can add some vanilla sugar or vanillin. Next, we will cook lazy cottage cheese pancakes with the help of kitchen appliances. The mixer is the best assistant in this matter. Of course, you can mix with your hands. But with a mixer, the mass can be made more uniform. Add flour to lazy cheesecakes should be gradually, controlling the density. At the end, we intervene the raisins. Remember that it should first be thoroughly washed and soaked for a couple of minutes in boiling water. Then, dropping in flour, you can already add to the mass. The resulting mixture should be sufficiently thick in consistency, slightly grainy and sticky.
Fried cheesecakes
If you want to choose the fastest cooking option, then frying is right for you. Lazy cottage cheese pancakes, the recipe of which provides for the use of a frying pan with butter, will be slightly caloric than those that are cooked in the oven. This should be taken into account immediately. Before frying the dough, the pan should be thoroughly calcined and warm the vegetable oil. You can spread the curd mass with a tablespoon or hands. Some housewives prefer the so-called creative mess in cooking. That is, lazy syrniki make with shapeless edges, reminiscent of meringues. Others mold them with their hands, forming neat cutlets. You can also use specialized forms for making cookies. This option will be ideal if you are preparing a breakfast dish for a capricious child.
Cheesecakes in the oven
If you decide to make lazy cheesecakes for breakfast, the recipe of which is based on cooking in the oven, then you probably follow a healthy diet. This is the right choice. Let cooking in the oven be a little longer than frying, but you will get much less calories. Cheesecakes in the oven can be cooked in completely different shapes. Here are a few options. You can take a special silicone mold in the form of circles, hearts, stars, etc. Lubricate it with oil and put a little curd mass there. You can take a large baking sheet and lay out arbitrary pieces - small or large pancakes.
Boiled cheesecakes
By the way, if you really want to eat a dish in which there will be no butter at all, we recommend putting the curd pancakes in boiling water. To cook boiled cottage cheese pancakes, some points should be changed in the recipe. Firstly, a little more flour is needed than in the variant with roasting or baking. It is necessary so that the cheesecakes do not spill during processing in boiling water. Secondly, raisins will not be added to the curd mass. He in the process of cooking can also contribute to the fact that the pancakes fall apart.
So, having prepared the dough, you should properly chop it. To do this, small balls are made from the total mass. Of these, you need to roll up long sausages. They are cut into small pieces. It will not be possible to form any bizarre contours here, as is possible in the case of baking cheesecakes in curly molds. But you have to decide: you are more important low calorie or original appearance.
Pour water into the pan, slightly add salt to it. We wait until it boils and boils. Now you can throw curd cakes into it. In general, cooking cheesecakes resembles the process of making dumplings. Only pancakes will be prepared much faster. Having taken syrniki from water, it is necessary to dry them. To do this, you can use paper towels or a colander.
Reviews: how and with what to serve?
It doesn’t matter how your cottage cheese pancakes were cooked, they should be served hot. Experienced housewives in their reviews recommend lazy cheesecakes to decorate with berries, fruits or sprinkle with powdered sugar before that. Best of all, they relish with some kind of sweet ingredient. For example, a great combination: cheesecakes lazy boiled and sour cream. Users claim that condensed milk, jam, butter also adds special taste to them. If you follow a diet, then these fatty components can be replaced with jam or milk.
A very tasty option is custard for cheesecakes. The hostesses in their comments assure that it is easy to cook, it will take you just a couple of minutes, and the result will be very tasty. So, take a couple of egg yolks and mix them with granulated sugar. Add a little butter, corn starch and lemon juice. The resulting mass will need to be boiled for a couple of minutes on fire until thickened. Once the cream has cooled, you can whip it into a uniform, strong foam using a mixer. Having beautifully decorated lazy cheesecakes with custard, powdered sugar and berries, you can get not just an ordinary breakfast, but a real festive dessert.