Cottage cheese is a unique and useful sour-milk product. It can be soft or grainy, fresh, salty or sweet.
What can be cooked from cottage cheese?
Cottage cheese is perfect for baking: cottage cheese dough, cottage cheese filling with raisins, nuts, fruits, vegetables or mushrooms always come out amazingly delicious. From cottage cheese, you get the perfect dessert with fruits, a nutritious or diet breakfast - it all depends on the fat content of the cottage cheese and on the method of its preparation.
Experienced housewives do not even think about what can be cooked from cottage cheese: everything from a simple casserole to a delicious dessert.
Cottage Cheese Cookies
Kids are delighted not only with funny pig faces, but also with a delicate taste that will appeal to even the most fastidious kids. How to make cottage cheese cookies quickly, tasty and fun, we will now find out.
For cooking, we need: 200 g of margarine for baking or fresh butter, 200 g of homemade cottage cheese, 400 g of sifted wheat flour, half a teaspoon of slaked soda, 120 g of sugar, poppy seeds.
Grind soft margarine or butter with sugar and cottage cheese, add soda, add flour and knead the dough. To form round cookies from the curd dough in the form of muzzle of pigs, eyes and a piglet to make from poppy seeds.
Cookies are baked for about 15 minutes at a temperature of about 190-200 degrees.
Indian sweets "Rasgulla" is another answer to the question of what can be prepared from cottage cheese. Exotic treat will appeal to all lovers of sweets.
To prepare a sweet miracle, we will need: a liter of medium-fat milk, 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice, 150 g of sugar, 350 ml of warm water. We cook home-made cottage cheese, which the Indians call “panir”: bring the liter of milk to a boil, turn it off, slowly pour lemon juice into it, mix and wait a few minutes. Separated cottage cheese, filter from the whey through cheesecloth, rinse with running water, squeeze.
Spread the finished panir on the board, knead well until smooth and cut into small balls with a diameter of 2 cm. Dissolve 150 g of sugar in 300 g of water, bring to a boil, boil for 5-7 minutes. In the process of cooking, the balls will increase one and a half or two times, there should be a distance between them.
In the finished hot syrup, lower the balls, cook for 12-15 minutes. We close the pan, put it in cold water and leave it for a day - during this time the curd balls are soaked in syrup. You can use berry or fruit syrups, then the rasgulls will acquire a bright color and aroma.
Dumplings "Sloths"
What can be prepared from cottage cheese without spending a lot of time? Lazy dumplings - a light and tasty dish, ideal for breakfast.
For lazy dumplings, we need a pound of cottage cheese, a couple of eggs and about a glass of flour. Knead dough from cottage cheese, flour and eggs. It should not be cool, you need a little flour, otherwise the curd taste will not be felt. Cut the dough into small balls with a diameter of 1.5 cm.
Boil water, lower the balls and cook until they are doubled. Put on a plate, pour with melted butter, salted sour cream or yogurt.