Russian cuisine is famous for its diversity and abundance. Especially with regards to pies - you will not find such anywhere else. Since ancient times, they have been an indispensable component of the Russian festive table. There are pies of different consistencies and shapes. And their fillings delight with their varieties: meat, fish, potato, fruit, vegetable and, of course, berry.
Today we would like to dwell on the following recipe: a pie with blueberries and cottage cheese. This berry has many advantages, it is incredibly tasty and very healthy. Blueberries help the body get rid of toxins, reduce blood sugar, and also have beneficial effects on vision. So a pie with blueberries and cottage cheese is a good way to please your body and help it.
For this baking we will need the following ingredients.
For the test:
- Sugar - half a cup.
- Butter - 200 grams.
- An egg is one piece.
- Vanilla Sugar - 2 tsp
- Baking powder for dough - 2 tsp.
- Flour - 240 grams.
For filling:
- Egg - four pieces.
- Cottage cheese - six hundred grams.
- Starch - one hundred grams.
- Sugar - half a cup.
- Blueberries - three hundred grams.
- Powdered sugar - for sprinkling on top.
As the ingredients show, we will cook a pie with blueberries and cottage cheese on shortcrust pastry. To begin with, mix sugar with vanilla sugar, then rub it with butter, which softened at room temperature. Then we mix this mass with the egg. Mix flour with baking powder. We mix this mass with grated sugar and butter, knead the dough. We grease the baking dish with vegetable oil, and put the dough in it, making small sides.
Blueberry filling for the cake, as well as cottage cheese is prepared as follows. First, we separate the proteins from the yolks. Rub the latter, adding sugar. We put cottage cheese in this mixture, after passing it through a sieve. All this mix thoroughly. Pour the starch next. Beat the whites, preferably with a mixer, with the addition of a pinch of salt. Pour these proteins into the mass with cottage cheese and carefully mix.
Curd filling, smoothing , cover the dough. Beat the berries in a blender, adding a tablespoon of sugar. And spread the blueberries on top of the curd mass.
We put it all for an hour in the oven, which we preheat to one hundred and eighty degrees. So that the cake does not remain cheese inside and burnt outside, it is better to cover it with foil on top. When it is baked, it can be sprinkled with powdered sugar and covered with berries.
Now let's see how to make a pie with blueberries and cottage cheese on yeast dough.
Ingredients for the dough
Opara:
- Dry yeast - one and a half tablespoons.
- Water - ¾ cup.
- Flour - two hundred grams.
- Sugar - half a teaspoon
Main batch:
- An egg is two pieces.
- Milk - ¾ cup.
- Vegetable oil - 4 tbsp.
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Sugar - 6 tablespoons
- Flour - 800 grams.
Ingredients for the filling:
- Cottage cheese - 250 grams.
- Blueberries - 700 grams.
- Sugar - 10 tbsp
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Starch - 1.5 tbsp
To make a dough for dough, add yeast to the warm water, let it stand for five minutes to swell and dissolve. Then you need to add sugar and flour so that the dough turns out to be liquid, but does not drip from the spoon. Let the dough stand for about ten minutes and, closing it with a film or a lid, leave it for two to three hours to wander.
Meanwhile, for the main batch, take sugar, eggs, butter, salt, milk and mix together. Connect the baking dish with the dough. After adding flour, knead the dough. Then it is necessary to put it in a saucepan, cover and let stand until it increases in volume.
Divide the finished dough in half: one half will go to the decoration, the other to the base of the cake. Roll it to the size of your baking sheet, pre-coated with paper, and place it on it.
Next, you need to make a side of the cake, for example, braid a pigtail. Lubricating the edges of the base with an egg mixed with water, glue the pigtail around the perimeter. We roll out the remaining dough for decoration and cut into strips of 1.5 cm, on each of which we make notches. And for flowers, we cut out two mugs with a glass.
Smear the top of the pie with an egg and put it in the oven for ten minutes, preheated to 200 degrees.
While the dough is in the oven, prepare the filling. Grind sugar with blueberries and add starch. Then mix the cottage cheese, sugar. We take out the dough from the oven and quickly lay out the filling, as well as the decor. We grease everything with an egg and put it in the oven again until fully cooked.
When the cake is baked, let it cool and cut into small pieces. And now try this pie with blueberries and cottage cheese, and you will not regret it.