According to the culinary encyclopedia, the first casserole (from pasta and cheese) was prepared by the American mistress E. Joliquer in 1866. Today this wonderful dish has been improved and has a completely different look. If before there were few options for cooking casseroles, now there are a great many of them. In any cookbook, you can find hundreds of types of casseroles using different ingredients - berries, fruits, vegetables, eggs, sugar, butter, cereals, etc. The above composition turns the casserole into a low-calorie and healthy dish for both an adult and a child. Meanwhile, there is a category of people who does not like and cannot tolerate semolina - the main component of the classic cottage cheese casserole. For this reason, instead of semolina, many consume wheat, corn flour or starch. And how is curd casserole baked without semolina? Consider a nice easy-to-cook recipe for casseroles for baby and diet food.
Curd casserole with apples without semolina provides the following ingredients:
- a little more than half 1 kg of cottage cheese (natural, fresh, low-fat);
- 0.5 kg of sweet and sour apples;
- 2 fresh eggs;
- 100 ml of warm milk;
- 100 g of granulated sugar;
- 2 tablespoons of starch (potato);
- about five tablespoons of sour cream;
- 3 tablespoons of flour (wheat);
- juice of one lemon;
- a pinch of flavored sugar;
- some ground nuts.
Key cooking steps:
1. Carefully grind the cottage cheese through a sieve with large holes until a homogeneous mass is created. In the resulting curd mass, we add alternately flour, starch, milk, vanilla sugar, lemon juice. Mix all the added ingredients. Also beat eggs one by one with sugar until a light shade and a noticeable volume. Transfer the air mass from sugar and eggs to a bowl with cottage cheese, gently stir.
2. The resulting mixture in the form of a viscous porridge is sent to an ordinary baking sheet with baking paper or in a mold made of silicone. Now we prepare the apples that need to be wiped with a napkin, cut into thin slices (without a core). Put the cut apples on the previously prepared mixture of cottage cheese. Next, cottage cheese casserole without semolina is sprinkled with any ground nuts to get a special taste.
3. After the casserole dish, we send it to the preheated oven to 175-190 ° C for half an hour. While the cottage cheese casserole without semolina is baked, knead the sour cream with sugar (1 tablespoon).
4. We take out the casserole form from the oven, distribute the mixed filling of sweet sour cream over the entire surface. Immediately after this, the cottage cheese casserole without semolina is once again put into the oven and baked for several minutes until fully cooked. In conclusion, pour cottage cheese casserole with sour cream and serve.
Cottage cheese casserole without semolina is ready! As we see, a similar dish is prepared much faster than a cake. Moreover, it is also much more useful, which is the indisputable advantage of a casserole.