Many people love such a common fermented milk product as cottage cheese. And absolutely not in vain. Due to its high calcium content and other valuable properties, it is a very valuable food product. Therefore, many housewives have recipes from cottage cheese in their arsenal. This product in its composition contains animal protein in a sufficiently large amount, while it still contains the most valuable and necessary amino acids for the human body.
In this case, unlike meat protein, the protein that is contained in the curd is completely absorbed by the body. It is on the basis of this property that recipes are made from cottage cheese for children, since in baby food it is very important that the child’s body assimilates useful products for it. You can even safely feed cottage cheese with babies under the age of one year. For children, this is a product of the very first importance and this is all thanks to the easily digestible protein and the calcium it contains.
In cottage cheese, the fat content may be different, if it is non-greasy, then less than 3 percent, and in fat, up to 18 percent of fat may already be contained. By its varieties, it is divided into several categories:
1.Normal (bold, bold or non-fat)
2. Calcined
3. Grainy cottage cheese
4. Sweet curd mass
5. Cottage cheese with various additives (raisins, candied fruits, nuts, dried fruits).
Numerous cottage cheese recipes , as a rule, include either granular cottage cheese or low fat. In some cases, when you need to prepare a cream for the cake, pies with filling, you can use sweet curd mass for such recipes. Usually the most popular recipes for cottage cheese recipes are dumplings, pancakes, cheesecakes with cottage cheese, cottage cheese pancakes, cookies, casserole and other cottage cheese pastries.
There is no doubt that cheesecakes are incredibly delicious. There are even a huge number of recipes for their preparation. They are crushed in breadcrumbs and in flour, fruits, honey, raisins and dried apricots are added to them. Some housewives, especially those in the family who have allergies, manage to cook cheese cakes without an egg. To choose the most suitable option for yourself, you must definitely try to cook this dish in several ways. After all, cheesecakes can be not only sweet, but also savory, with various spices and additives.
Also, cheesecakes do not have to be fried in a pan, they can be baked in the oven and boiled in a pan with water. They relate to fast, simple and tasty dishes, do not take a lot of time to prepare and are liked by almost everyone. Recipes from cottage cheese pancakes are based on the classic recipe. You need to take half a kilogram of cottage cheese, one egg, six to seven tablespoons of flour, half a teaspoon of soda, sugar and salt to taste. You need to mix the cottage cheese with the egg well to make the mass more homogeneous, you can use a blender, then add the flour and mix the mass thoroughly again.
Roll out the resulting curd dough into a sausage and cut into small pieces of the same size. Before frying, each piece must be rolled in flour and flattened so that they are better fried; you can make several symmetrical cuts with a blunt knife on top. It is better to fry syrniki in vegetable oil until a golden brown crust forms on them.
Cottage cheese is also perfect for diet food, numerous diet recipes from cottage cheese are known. You can cook it with vegetables, you can separately with green onions or tomatoes, it makes excellent cheesecakes with carrots or potatoes, cheesecakes with cabbage. Also, cabbage rolls with cottage cheese, as well as various recipes of cottage cheese pancakes with apples or other fruits, are perfectly suitable for diet food.