Cottage cheese casserole is a traditional dish in Russia since the days of the Soviet Union, when it was mandatory included in the menu of all kindergartens. Many still remember her, love and enjoy cooking in the oven. And how to make cottage cheese casserole in a slow cooker? It turns out that it is very simple, and then a few cooking options.
The classic recipe for a multicooker
The cottage cheese casserole with semolina is very lush and tender, and it is prepared from the following ingredients:
- glasses of sugar;
- 0.5 kg of cottage cheese;
- four eggs;
- glasses of kefir;
- half a cup of semolina;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- a teaspoon of vanilla extract;
- salt on the tip of a knife;
- candied fruit or raisins.
If you replace kefir with sour cream in the recipe, the finished dish will turn out even more tender.
Consider the process of preparing cottage cheese casseroles in a slow cooker step by step:
- Beat eggs. This will require a mixer. Beat until fluffy for two to three minutes.
- Put sugar in eggs and beat.
- Add the following ingredients in the following order: cottage cheese, kefir, semolina, vanilla extract, salt, baking powder, raisins. Mix. By consistency, a rather liquid mass should be obtained.
- Grease the bowl of the multicooker and put the prepared mixture into it. Set the Baking program for 45 minutes.
Get the cottage cheese casserole from the multicooker and decorate to your liking. Sprinkle with cinnamon, grease with jam or jam or lay fresh berries on the surface.
For the smallest
To prepare a cottage cheese casserole for a child in a slow cooker, you will need the following products:
- 100 g of baby curd;
- one banana;
- two teaspoons of semolina.
Steps:
- Mix the cottage cheese with semolina and let stand for 10 minutes.
- Grind the banana (not a grater or a blender), put in a cottage cheese with semolina and mix.
- Arrange the curd into silicone muffin tins.
- Cook for 20 minutes in a slow cooker in steam mode
The children's cottage cheese casserole prepared according to this recipe in a slow cooker is recommended for feeding children from one year old.
With pumpkin
The recipe for this casserole includes the following ingredients:
- 150 g pumpkin;
- 400 g of cottage cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 4 tablespoons of sugar and semolina;
- a pinch of salt;
- half a teaspoon of soda;
- canned chopped pineapples (handful);
- vanilla sugar.
Cooking cottage cheese casseroles with pumpkin in a slow cooker is performed in the following sequence:
- Mix cottage cheese with semolina.
- Grate a pumpkin and combine with cottage cheese.
- Add sugar, a little vanilla sugar, soda, salt and eggs to the mixture.
- Pineapple put in large pieces (if desired, you can make them smaller), mix with a mixer and leave for about ten minutes - let semolina swell.
- Put the cottage cheese and pumpkin mass into the greased bowl of the multicooker, set the “Baking” program for 60 minutes.
- At the end of the program, without opening the lid, switch to the “Heating” mode for half an hour.
Multicooker cottage cheese and pumpkin casserole has an original taste due to the combination of pumpkin and pineapple.
Dietary
This casserole is for those who count calories. For its preparation, low-fat cottage cheese is used, the amount of semolina and sugar is reduced.
What do you need:
- 0.5 kg 2% cottage cheese;
- 30 g semolina;
- 3 eggs;
- 30 g of sugar;
- 100 g of raisins or other dried fruits;
- vegetable oil to lubricate the bowl;
- salt to taste.
Cooking process:
- Rinse thoroughly and pour hot water over it for five minutes.
- Separate the yolks from the proteins.
- Mix cottage cheese with yolks, semolina and sand with a blender. Put raisins and mix again.
- Beat proteins until lush foam is formed.
- In the curd mass, carefully lay out the proteins and mix strictly in one direction.
- Lubricate the bowl with vegetable oil and lay out the prepared mixture.
- Close the lid, set the “Baking” program for 45 minutes.
- After the multicooker signal, carefully transfer the casserole to a large plate.
The diet dish is ready to eat. It is allowed to eat in a cold form.
Not everyone loves semolina in desserts, so next we will consider several recipes for cottage cheese casseroles for a multicooker without semolina.
Light with yogurt
This dish is intended for those who follow a diet and monitor weight and at the same time want to cook a delicious cottage cheese casserole in a slow cooker. It can be included in the children's menu, served for breakfast or afternoon tea.
What do you need:
- two packs of low-fat cottage cheese;
- four tablespoons of natural low-fat yogurt;
- three eggs;
- three tablespoons of starch and sugar:
- 5 g vanilla sugar;
- one green apple.
Cooking:
- Combine the cottage cheese with starch and sugar and knead with a fork so that there are no large pieces.
- Break eggs in a bowl with cottage cheese, add yogurt and mix.
- Then add vanilla sugar to the mixture.
- Peel the apple, remove the grains and cut into small cubes. Mix the mass.
- Put the mixture in a greased bowl, smooth, close and place for 50 minutes to cook in baking mode.
After the signal, do not immediately take out the finished casserole, but only open the lid. It is better if it first cools down, only then carefully remove it.
Fruit curd
Lovers of light fruit desserts will not be able to get past this recipe.
What do you need:
- 0.5 kg of cottage cheese;
- three apples;
- 200 g canned cherries;
- 1 egg
- three bananas;
- three oranges;
- three teaspoons of starch, honey and lemon juice;
- on a tablespoon of butter and breadcrumbs;
- a pinch of granulated sugar.
Algorithm:
- Prepare the fruits: peel the bananas and oranges and cut into circles, wash the apples and cut into thin slices, pour the cherries into a colander to make the liquid liquid.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl with butter, sprinkle breadcrumbs and lay sliced fruits and cherries in layers.
- Separate the protein from the yolk. Beat the protein separately. Combine cottage cheese with yolk, starch, lemon juice and honey, toss a pinch of sugar (optional). Proteins introduced into the mixture gradually and accurately.
- Put the mass into a bowl of a multicooker and bake for half an hour under the lid in the Multi-Cook mode at 120 degrees.
With chocolate
This casserole has a noble chocolate taste and an original appearance.
What do you need:
- 1 kg of country cottage cheese (you can any);
- six eggs;
- chocolate bar (100 g);
- 100 ml of 20% cream;
- a glass of sugar;
- four tablespoons of starch.
Steps:
- Heat the cream almost to a boil, but do not boil. Remove from heat and put chocolate in cream. Let it melt and mix.
- In a separate bowl, mix the curd with eggs and sugar, beat with a blender, add starch and mix.
- Divide the resulting mass into two identical parts, pour the chocolate mass into one of them and mix.
- Lubricate the bowl with oil and in turn lay out either a spoonful of white mass, then a spoonful of black. When the bowl is full, use a wooden skewer to make stains from the center of the bowl to the edges.
- Set the “Baking” mode in the multicooker and cook for 60 minutes, then transfer it to the “Heating” mode for 30 minutes. Do not open the multicooker until the casserole is ready.
Remove the pastries using a double container and place on a flat dish. You can immediately enjoy a hot casserole.
How to make a cottage cheese casserole in a slow cooker is not sweet, but a snack? To do this, use the following two recipes.
With greens and cheese
Optional cottage cheese casserole should be sweet. For example, the following recipe with herbs and cheese. For such a dish you need to take:
- three eggs;
- 600 g of cottage cheese;
- 200 g of hard cheese;
- a bunch of dill and parsley;
- breadcrumbs;
- butter;
- half a teaspoon of salt.
Steps:
- Separate the squirrels from the yolks. Drive the whites together with the salt with a mixer to make a stable and lush foam.
- Knead the cottage cheese, add the yolks to it and grind again.
- Grate cheese, finely chop the greens with a knife. Set aside some cheese (they are sprinkled with a ready-made casserole). Pour the remaining cheese and greens into the curd and mix.
- Gradually, add the whipped whites to the curd in portions and mix.
- Lubricate the multicooker bowl with butter, put the curd into it, smooth the surface and set the “Baking” mode for 45 minutes.
- When the slow cooker gives a signal that the dish is ready, open the lid, sprinkle the grated cheese on the casserole, close and allow the cheese to melt. After five minutes, remove the bowl, when it has cooled slightly, remove the finished casserole, using a container for cooking steamed dishes.
It remains only to put the finished dish on a plate, cut into portions and serve. You can eat both in warm form and in cold.
With Adyghe cheese and garlic steamed
Another recipe for a savory snack casserole, which is steamed and turns out to be very porous, high and juicy.
What do you need:
- 0.5 kg of Adyghe cheese and cottage cheese 9% fat;
- three eggs;
- six cherry tomatoes;
- two cloves of garlic;
- a bunch of green onions;
- salt to taste (if the cheese is slightly salted).
Steps:
- Grind garlic and chives.
- Mash Adyghe cheese to the state of crumbs.
- Put cottage cheese, Adyghe cheese and eggs into a deep bowl and mix with a hand blender. The mixture should be homogeneous.
- Add onion and garlic to the curd mixture and mix again.
- Cover the container-double boiler with cling film, transfer the curd mass into it, flatten with a spoon.
- Wash the cherry, wipe it dry and press into the future casserole.
- Pour a liter of boiling water into the bowl, install a double boiler, close the lid, set the "Cooking" mode for 50 minutes.
- After a beep, open the lid, remove the bowl and container and leave for 20 minutes so that the casserole does not settle. After that, remove the container-double boiler from the bowl and cool the casserole in the container. Only when it has cooled completely, put it on a plate.
Tips
How to make cottage cheese casserole in a slow cooker to make it curvy? To do this, resort to some tricks:
- Usually wheat flour is a part of cottage cheese casseroles. If you replace it with semolina, the dish will turn out to be much more tender.
- Squirrels need to be properly separated from the yolks and whipped separately, throwing a pinch of salt in them - so they beat faster, and splendor will be more stable. Proteins must be cold, and dishes - dry.
- To make proteins more airy, sugar must be added after the foam has formed.
- Cottage cheese should not be liquid, but if there is no other available, you need to increase the amount of semolina so that the mass becomes like thick sour cream.
- It is not recommended to start baking immediately after preparing the dough. It is necessary to let it stand for a while (40 minutes) so that the semolina is properly swollen.
- During baking, you can’t open the multicooker lid, otherwise the raised casserole will fall off.
Conclusion
Now you know how to make a cottage cheese casserole in a slow cooker. There are many recipes for every taste: for sweet tooth, and for losing weight, and for those who like savory dishes.