Appetizing lazy cottage cheese dumplings can become both a sweet dessert and a pleasant hearty breakfast. We have been remembering their taste since childhood as a breakfast served with sour cream or delicious berry jam, with honey or a slice of melted butter.
If you are on a diet and really want something sweet, then why not cook light diet lazy dumplings without flour and with delicious dressing. Let's find out how to make such.
Curd around the head
Cottage cheese is the main ingredient for making a fragrant, mouth-watering and light breakfast, it is a fermented milk product obtained by fermenting milk. Cottage cheese is often recommended for those who are on a diet or adhere to proper nutrition. And not in vain, because cottage cheese, especially cooked at home, is a storehouse of vitamins A, D, C and B. In addition, it contains a lot of calcium, phosphorus and iron - the elements necessary for our body. At the same time, only 3% carbohydrates are in cottage cheese, and its nutritional value is much higher than that of plain milk.
The useful properties of cottage cheese are due to milk protein - casein, which is able to replace proteins of animal origin. Mineral substances contained in cottage cheese contribute to the healthy formation and strengthening of bones, and amino acids are an excellent prevention of liver diseases.
At the same time, milk bacteria improve the digestive tract. It is strongly recommended that people with gastric diseases consume cottage cheese in processed form - in cottage cheese pancakes and diet lazy dumplings.
As already mentioned, cottage cheese is often recommended for those who adhere to diets, a healthy diet or want to arrange a fasting day for their body. A fat-free product is always suitable for this. In addition, cottage cheese is used to treat burns (applied warm), to create masks, creams and ointments for the face and body.
And yet, despite a long list of useful properties, it is not recommended to consume more than 200 grams of cottage cheese per day due to the high level of protein in the product. Moreover, eat only fresh cottage cheese - this is a perishable product, and you can store it for a maximum of 2-3 days in the refrigerator.
Choice of cottage cheese for lazy diet dumplings
For the preparation of ordinary lazy dumplings, it is better to give preference to a fatty product, it is more saturated. But since we have a dietary recipe, low-fat cottage cheese will not cause much damage to the taste of dumplings. Choose the freshest cottage cheese to enrich your body with a huge amount of its beneficial components.
Fresh cottage cheese should be white and cream color. The product should not taste bitter or acid. It’s the same with its smell. In addition, the cottage cheese should be homogeneous, not stratified and have an oily consistency.
Ingredients
For the preparation of lazy dietary dumplings without flour, we will use semolina. In addition, you will need the following ingredients:
- 250 g of cottage cheese;
- 100 g semolina;
- 1 egg
- 100 g of sugar;
- a pinch of salt.
To simplify the recipe for diet lazy dumplings, you can use liquid honey or sweetener tablets in place of sugar. Instead of sour cream, you can use yogurt as a dressing.
Mashed cottage cheese
First prepare the cottage cheese for the dumplings. If you like to feel the texture of the cottage cheese, its small lumps, then laying the cottage cheese in a deep mixing bowl, just mash it with a fork along with the egg and sugar. Granular cottage cheese is especially popular now, therefore, if desired, you can use it, also mashed with other components.
But if you like a delicate texture, a homogeneous mass, then the cottage cheese must be wiped through a sieve. Take a small sieve and put cottage cheese into it in small portions. Using a spoon, wipe the main ingredient for the dumplings. This will break the small lumps in the product. Rubbed cottage cheese or not - there will be no damage to diet lazy dumplings.
Recipe
Add sugar or honey to the curd. If it is sugared, then melt it in a steam bath or in the microwave. Some use sugar substitute in tablets instead of sugar. Pound the egg with sugar and mix the ingredients into one homogeneous mass, reminiscent of sour cream in consistency. Add semolina and a pinch of salt to the mixture, replace soft and sticky dough, hide it in the refrigerator for half an hour, covering the bowl with cling film. The dough should be infused, semolina - swell from cottage cheese and eggs.
After half an hour, take out the dough and sprinkle semolina on the table. Roll out the finished dough and form a not too thin sausage, cut it into small pieces. Lazy diet cottage cheese dumplings can be left in this form, or can be rolled up into balls. If you cook dumplings for children, then take small cookie cutters and, having rolled out a thick layer of dough, cut several pieces.
Boil water, slightly salt. Put the lazy dumplings in the water and cook. The approximate cooking time is 5 minutes. Take out the sweet treat after a second boil of water.
Dumpling
Most often, lazy dumplings are served with sour cream or a slice of butter. To make them even lighter, tender and less high-calorie, you can use yogurt as a dressing for dumplings. On the shelves of the stores there is a huge selection of different yogurts: sweet, regular, low-calorie, with beneficial bacteria and berry supplements. For plain yogurt, you can chop some fresh berries or fruits and serve.
This recipe for diet lazy cottage cheese dumplings will be the most beloved, satisfying and tasty breakfast for the whole family.
Semolina
Semolina is a collection of flour, because this cereal is the same wheat, only coarse, coarser. Not everyone has pleasant associations with this groats, at the word "semolina" disgusting memories of lump porridge from kindergartens pop up for some. Yes, more recently, semolina porridge was almost the main thing in the diet of children, but now doctors do not favor it, believing that it is difficult to digest in the children's body, despite the fact that it has a lot of useful properties.
But she found her application in cooking and is used not only for making cereal for breakfast. Semolina is an excellent breading for frying and an excellent substitute for flour. It swells perfectly, thanks to it the dish turns out to be tender, soft, light and as if melting in the mouth. Dumplings with semolina are much better than flour. Calorie diet lazy dumplings with semolina is only 220 calories.
Replacing flour for dumplings
And yet, if you are not a fan of semolina, although its taste is almost not felt in the finished product, you can replace flour with other ingredients. So, for example, to get diet lazy dumplings, you can use hercules. For 200 g of cottage cheese, 5 tbsp is enough. l oatmeal. An excellent substitute for wheat flour can serve as corn flour in a proportion of 200 g of cottage cheese and 40 g of flour. She has a high level of gluten and a small amount of calories. In addition, oat or rice flour is suitable.
It's just that you can cook a hearty, tasty, healthy and easy diet breakfast from cottage cheese. Be sure to try making lazy dumplings at home. It does not take a lot of time. The recipe requires extremely simple and inexpensive products, and the result will bring a lot of pleasure to the whole family.
Enjoy your meal!