Cottage cheese is the basis of many dishes. It turns out that even those who do not have a special love for this product are happy to eat dishes from it, and this is a great occasion to feed their loved ones with something useful and nutritious, because dishes from cottage cheese are hearty and at the same time dietary.
In this article, we will talk about such a universal dish of all nations as cottage cheese pudding (recipes of different countries differ in different names, but in general they all have a similar basis - constant cottage cheese). It is on the options and methods for preparing this dessert that we will stop in this article.
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Curd pudding, the recipes of which you will find below, is a delicious and healthy treat that can easily be prepared at home. You can please yourself and your household with an exquisite curd dish, which is good to use for breakfast or afternoon tea.
The recipe for cottage cheese pudding is somewhat different from the cottage cheese casserole, known in the CIS. Some even believe that, in principle, these two dishes are a reflection of each other. But this is not so. Of course, you can mix the ingredients, bake or steam everything and consider that this is a real pudding. But, according to the cooks (meticulous persons in particular), pudding is a completely different level of creation, and not a primitive peasant dish.
Secrets and subtleties of cooking curd pudding
With raisins or berries, fruits or chocolate, spices or juice, rum or cognac, fruit essence or candied fruit, with pumpkin or beetroot, spinach or nuts, bananas or cocoa ... It’s difficult to list all the options of the dish, and it’s not necessary. In addition, there are curd puddings without baking - and these are dozens of recipes in the treasury of one of the “meticulous culinary experts”. In this article we will focus on the most popular variations of puddings.
Of course, we will not be tempting and confirm the obvious fact that the basis here is close to a cottage cheese casserole. The standard set of ingredients includes semolina, cottage cheese, eggs, rice, sour cream, crackers and milk. Interestingly, puddings, contrary to the general stereotype, are also salty. Moreover, in historical sources the salty version of the dish is mentioned more often. You can find references to pudding recipes with fish, meat and all kinds of vegetables.
In order to prepare a real pudding, and not an ordinary cottage cheese casserole, you should understand the list of rules listed below.
To make the product luxuriant, egg whites and yolks are necessarily separated from each other. Each product is whipped separately. Then they need to be connected in series with the rest of the components. The whipped protein is introduced into the mass last - you need to intervene it very carefully so that it does not lose bubbles.
Curd pudding in the oven is prepared in special forms with holes in the middle. Thanks to this, pudding is better baked. For greater effect, you can use small cake tins.
Pudding should be placed in a half-heated oven. Otherwise, it instantly becomes covered with a crust of a ruddy color, and inside it will remain raw and not baked. This product quickly falls off when removed from the oven.
The oven must be heated to 190 ° C, pudding is laid in it, and then the temperature needs to be raised to 220 ° C.
It is worth getting the cottage cheese pudding cooked in the oven only after cooling.
For baking elasticity, you can add semolina, boiled rice, stale bread to the dough.
If semolina is indicated in the recipe, after kneading the dough you need to give it some time to rest (about 30 minutes). This is necessary so that the semolina has time to swell. Thanks to this little trick, you can get an excellent non-falling form of cottage cheese pudding. The children's menu, by the way, often includes this dish, so caring mothers prefer to steam it in the microwave or in a water bath.
Sharing the secrets of "production"
Ready-made pastries can be stored for no more than 72 hours.
For cooking, it is better to take home-made cottage cheese or make it yourself using homemade fat milk.
If you buy cottage cheese in a store, do not take a product with a fat content of less than 9%.
Too dry cottage cheese can be diluted with several tablespoons of sour cream or kefir.
Used cottage cheese should be no older than 5 days from the date of preparation.
You need to grease the baking dish with butter or vegetable oil (or line it with parchment for baking) - so the pudding will not burn and it will be better to lag behind.
Pudding will turn out to be much tastier if all its components are mixed until a smooth homogeneous mass is obtained and only then, in turn, introduce eggs, dividing into yolks and proteins.
So, meet the cavalcade of cottage cheese pudding recipes!
Steamed Curd Pudding
Perhaps this is the simplest and quickest recipe for a dish that is pure classic of prim England. This diet curd pudding (calorie content is not more than 165 kcal per 100 g) is quite tender and satisfying.
Cooking time will be approximately one hour.
You will need the following products for cooking diet curd pudding for a couple:
- 400 g non-grained curd;
- 100 ml low-fat sour cream;
- 100 g of quality milk;
- 80 g granulated sugar;
- 50 g sifted flour;
- 25 g butter;
- 1 large chicken egg.
Step cooking
Grind the cottage cheese through a fine sieve (you can twist through a meat grinder with a fine lattice). Put the cottage cheese in a deep bowl for kneading the dough.
We introduce flour and sugar into the curd, mix the products thoroughly.
Separate egg whites and yolks. We immediately send the last to the dough and intervene.
Pour the milk and stir everything again until a homogeneous mass is formed.
Next, we turn to the squirrels: beat them in a thick standing foam and gradually introduce them into the curd mass. Knead the dough with gentle movements from top to bottom. We spread the curd pudding in a greased form.
If you have a double boiler - then, of course, it is much better to cook this dish in it. If not, you will have to do a steam bath. To do this, pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. From above we set the form with the dough prepared, but so that it does not touch the boiling water. We close the form with a lid and prepare the product for about 40 minutes.
Serve pudding with sour cream. This amazing dish is suitable for dietary and therapeutic nutrition.
Curd pudding in a multicooker
This is one of the most common options for preparing a delicate and delicious English dessert. Curd pudding in a slow cooker is a great way to use the cottage cheese from the refrigerator, which is about to cease to be relevant for use.
Required Products:
- half a pound of curdless curd;
- 150 ml of milk;
- 30 g of sour cream of medium fat content;
- 50 g raw semolina;
- half a glass of sugar;
- a pinch of salt;
- a handful of nuts;
- 2 chicken eggs.
Cooking step by step in a slow cooker
We install a nozzle in the food processor called “cutting knife”. Fill cottage cheese with granulated sugar in a combine and beat well until a homogeneous mass is obtained. All sugar grains should break.
Next, add raw semolina with sour cream and grind the mixture again.
Add a pinch of salt and pour the milk. Scroll again and let it brew for about 15 minutes. During this time, semolina has time to swell.
Divide the eggs into proteins and yolks. Immediately interfere with the yolk mixture.
When the semolina swells, beat the protein with a mixer until stable peaks appear. After that, we introduce them into the dough and mix all the products in one direction with smooth and slow movements.
Lubricate the baking dish and place the dough in it.
We put the pudding in the slow cooker, set the "Baking" mode and prepare the pudding for about 35 minutes. The specific time will determine only the power of your device.
Ready-made pudding can be served with tea.
With apples - for lovers sweeter!
To make a sweet cottage cheese pudding with apples you will need:
- half a pound of curdless curd;
- 30 g butter;
- 50 g of almonds (minced and roasted);
- 150 g granulated sugar (optional - more);
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 4 tablespoons of semolina (can be replaced with flour, but splendor will subside);
- 300 ml of medium fat milk;
- a pair of large apples.
Cooking Express Pudding with Apples
We cut the apples into thin slices and lay them on the bottom of the mold, which was previously greased with oil.
Mix sugar with cottage cheese and milk. Punch the mixture with a blender. We introduce semolina and nuts, mix well.
Beat the eggs with a pinch of salt and introduce into the curd mixture.
Pour the resulting dough onto the apples laid in the form.
Bake for 50 minutes at 190 ° C.
The pudding is tender and just melts in your mouth.
The dish is great for breakfast.
Curd and berry pleasure
Cottage cheese and berry pudding is a delicious, delicate, healthy dessert. It is recommended for those who suffer from pancreatitis. It takes no more than an hour to cook it. This dessert will be a great treat for children.
Cottage cheese and berry pudding is a cure for any spleen. An easy-to-cook delicacy will not take up much of your time and definitely will not affect your wallet. The ingredients for the pudding are freely available at any supermarket.
It turns out that this amazing dish is only tasty, but also healthy: it is recommended to use it for pancreatitis.
To make a healthy dessert you will need:
- a pound of fat-free cottage cheese;
- 4 pieces of chicken fresh eggs;
- one tablespoon of starch;
- 150 g sour cream of medium fat content;
- half a glass of granulated sugar;
- tablespoon raw semolina;
- fresh or frozen cherries (other berries are also possible) - approximately 250-300 g.
Cooking healthy pudding
Immediately begin to warm the oven to 190 ° C.
Separate the yolks from the proteins. Add the yolks to the curd and mix thoroughly.
Into the resulting mass we introduce starch, semolina and sour cream. Now we bring all products to a state of homogeneity. Mix everything manually.
Beat egg whites with granulated sugar. This can be done either with a whisk or with a mixer.
The resulting mixture is poured over the mass of starch, semolina and sour cream into a mold.
The pudding mold is covered with foil and sent to the oven for 35 minutes. After 25 minutes of baking, the foil must be removed and lay cherries or other berries on the surface of the sweet treat.
Cooked pudding must be allowed to cool in the oven. Only after that we get it out of shape.
You can always vary the preparation of the pudding by changing the fillers. If people follow a special diet, it is better to exclude egg yolks from the recipe.