Curd is loved by many for its excellent taste.
Everyone knows the benefits of cottage cheese as a source of calcium.
In addition, like all sour-milk products, fresh cottage cheese is useful for digestion.
It goes well with a wide variety of products and can be the basis or additive for a huge number of dishes.
There are many recipes for curd.
General principles of cooking curd
The key to delicious cottage cheese dishes is good cottage cheese. It should not be too acidic, moderately moist, not hard.
Curd dishes can have both a sweet and salty taste. When making dishes from cottage cheese, other dairy products are used - butter, sour cream, milk. As well as eggs, fruits, berries, dried fruits. Black pepper, dill, parsley, caraway seeds are great for savory curd dishes.
Sandwich mass - a quick recipe of curd
Cottage cheese can be not only sweet, but also salty. Delicate aromatic mass is perfect for sandwiches.
Ingredients
200 grams of cottage cheese
100-150 grams of butter
Salt to taste
A tablespoon of chopped fresh dill
A teaspoon of sesame seeds - optional
Cooking method
Soften butter at room temperature. If you take it more, the mass will look like cottage cheese oil, if smaller - like soft fatty cottage cheese.
Pass the cottage cheese through a meat grinder or rub through a sieve, in the presence of a blender you do not need to do this.
Combine butter and cottage cheese, salt.
Mix well with a spoon or blender.
Add greens and caraway seeds.
Serve with black or white bread. It is very tasty to use this mass by putting it on hot boiled potatoes.
Tip: If the cottage cheese is dry, a spoonful of thin cream or sour cream will correct the situation. If desired, the mass can be pepper or season with chopped garlic.
Whipped cottage cheese snack balls recipe
These cute sweets are suitable for beer, tea and or can be consumed on their own.
Ingredients
500 gr. cottage cheese
2 chicken eggs
Salt and herbs to taste - fresh or dried
2-3 tablespoons of flour
Deep-frying oil
Cooking method
If the greens are fresh, chop it finely.
Cottage cheese should not be too dry and not too wet. If wet, you need to hang it in gauze or just put it in a colander so that the glass is excess liquid. If the curd is harsh, it must be passed through a meat grinder or chopped with a blender.
Add eggs, flour, greens and salt to the cottage cheese, grind thoroughly.
You should get a lot of consistency of soft sticky dough, if liquid - add flour.
With wet palms, roll small balls.
Deep-fried quickly.
Put on a plate covered with a napkin so that the excess oil is gone.
Tip: You can not salt the mass, and sprinkle the prepared balls with salt a little after frying. You can cook not salty, but sweet balls. To do this, enter into this recipe from curd whipped up 150 gr. sugar, removing salt and greens from it. The rest is to cook as well.
Starchy casserole - quick recipe from cottage cheese
The casserole is lush and especially tender - due to the fact that starch is added here instead of flour or semolina. Sweetness can be varied by increasing or decreasing the amount of sugar.
Ingredients
500 gr. cottage cheese
3-4 eggs depending on size
One and a half cups of granulated sugar
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 tablespoons with a starch slide
Vanillin on the tip of a knife
A handful of raisins at will.
Cooking method
Separate the protein and yolk from the eggs, add a few grains of salt or citric acid to the proteins and put in the refrigerator.
Mix cottage cheese, sugar, yolks, sour cream, starch, vanilla.
Beat the whites first at low speeds, gradually increasing to a good foam.
Carefully introduce the proteins into the curd base, put the raisins.
Put everything in a mold oiled and sprinkled with breadcrumbs.
Bake over medium heat for half an hour.
Leave in the oven for another 20 minutes.
Serve with sour cream, jam, condensed milk or just with tea.
Tip: Often this casserole falls off, especially if removed from the oven ahead of time. This does not affect her taste. However, if you want to maintain the splendor of the dish, you need to use not a oven, but a slow cooker, the mode is “baking”.
Casserole in a hurry - cottage cheese and apple
Preparing to bake this dish may take a little longer than in the previous case. However, with good dexterity and proper organization of work, everything will turn out pretty quickly. Well, if the hostess has an assistant, then the preparation of apples and cottage cheese can be divided and everyone can safely do their own thing.
Ingredients
500 gr. cottage cheese
300 gr sour cream
One and a half cups of sugar
3-4 eggs
A pinch of salt
5 tablespoons of flour
3 medium apples
2 tablespoons of butter.
Cooking method
Cut the apples into thin slices or cubes, having previously cleared the skin.
In the form or pan where the casserole will be cooked, melt the butter, put the apples and fry a little, stirring.
In the meantime - or in advance, if the hostess is not sure that she will have time and she does not have helpers - grind the cottage cheese with sugar, eggs, put sour cream, salt, add vanilla and add flour. The mass should not be too thick.
Pour the mixture over the fried apples and put in the oven.
Bake over medium heat for half an hour.
Serve with sour cream, honey, condensed milk. The casserole is good both warm and cold.
Tip: Instead of apples, you can take any other fruits. If they are soft - peaches, apricots - you do not need to fry them, just put them in a greased form and pour over the curd.
Curd muffin: a quick recipe for baking
This curd cake can be prepared in a very easy, recipe from the category "guest on the doorstep". Cooking dough takes five minutes, while baking in the oven, you can devote yourself to other things or rest.
Ingredients
500 gr. cottage cheese
500 gr. flour
500 gr. Sahara
Pack of butter or margarine
5 eggs
A teaspoon of slaked soda
Vanillin to taste.
Cooking method
Melt butter or margarine.
Grind the cottage cheese, introduce the remaining products into it and mix well.
Bake over medium heat for half an hour.
Check the readiness with a wooden stick, if wet - leave to bake again.
Turn off the oven, after five minutes, remove the cupcake from the mold.
You can pour melted chocolate on top or sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Tip: From this quantity of products, a rather large cupcake is obtained, for which a large form is needed. Therefore, for the first time it is better to take half of the volume of these ingredients.
Whipped cottage cheese souffle recipe
The longest time to prepare this amazing dish is to wait until it hardens. It is prepared and eaten instantly.
Ingredients
500 gr. cottage cheese
A glass of milk
200 gr. sour cream
A glass of sugar, as little as possible
25 gr gelatin
500 gr. any berries or soft fruits - grapes, strawberries, kiwi, apricots, raspberries, one species or assorted
Cooking method
Pour milk into gelatin.
Grind cottage cheese, sugar and sour cream with a spoon, mixer or blender.
Wash and cut the fruit into pieces, wash the berries.
After half an hour of soaking, we heat the gelatin, not allowing it to boil.
We introduce the milk-gelatin mixture into the curd, add berries and fruits.
We spread in the form - silicone, any for baking or just a deep dish will do. Silicone can be used like this, and the rest can be covered with a film.
Put in the refrigerator for half an hour - an hour before solidification.
Flip on a flat plate, cut into pieces.
Tip: To melt the gelatin, you can use the microwave. So it will not burn. Only it is advisable not to set a lot of time, but to check the condition at short intervals. Use porcelain or plastic utensils. If you beat red berries in mashed potatoes before mixing with cottage cheese, you can get beautiful pink jelly.
Quick Recipe Goose Feet Cottage Cheese Cookies
The dough for this cookie is a real magic: it is prepared quickly from the minimum amount of ingredients. Goose legs from cottage cheese pastry are also baked very quickly. And you can attract guests or household members to make cookies - this is a rather interesting process.
Ingredients
200 gr. cottage cheese
200 gr. butter or margarine
2 cups flour approximately
1 cup sugar for baking cookies.
Cooking method
It is advisable to let the oil lie down for about an hour in warmth so that it softens.
Mix, rubbing well, cottage cheese and butter or margarine.
Pour the flour in small portions, knead a soft, but not fluid dough.
We roll out part of the dough into a large layer, cut out circles with a round mold.
Pour sugar in a plate.
The main thing in this cookie is to form it correctly. The procedure is as follows:
Put one side of dough on sugar.
Turn in half sugar inside.
Put the rolled half on one side on sugar.
Turn again in half with sugar inside.
Put the rolled quarter into sugar, squeezing a little.
Turn over and put on a baking sheet, oiled.
You should get triangles - “paws” with sugar on top.
Bake at medium temperature for 20-30 minutes. Cookies should light brown. Sometimes they lose shape, slightly spreading. This can happen if the cottage cheese is too wet or there is not enough flour in the dough. Nevertheless, the taste of cookies does not suffer from this at all.
Tip: You can add cinnamon to sugar for dipping cookies, this will make the liver very fragrant. You can choose a savory option - instead of dipping, slightly add cookies in the process of formation. Black pepper and caraway seeds can be added to salt. Of course, salt needs to be taken much less than sugar. Such salty cookies will go with broth or beer.
Pancake pie - quick recipe for cottage cheese
Baking pancakes is not so fast. But when there are ready-made homemade or purchased pancakes, cooking this pie is not difficult. And the result will exceed all expectations - the dish is very beautiful, tender, tasty.
Ingredients
10 thin pancakes
For filling:
500 gr. cottage cheese
1 chicken egg
Half a glass of sugar
Vanillin at will.
You can add raisins, chopped dried apricots, candied fruit, fresh berries or pieces of fruit, or you can do without it.
To fill:
2 eggs
2 tablespoons of sugar
A glass or a little less sour cream.
Cooking method
Mix the ingredients for the filling. In this case, the cottage cheese should be soft and tender, otherwise it must be passed through a meat grinder.
We spread the filling on each pancake and wrap it with a straw.
The resulting tubes are laid out tightly in a greased form. It is best laid out in a spiral.
Combine the ingredients for pouring, mix well or beat lightly.
Pour the mixture over the pancake tubes, stir them slightly with a fork so that the liquid flows into the voids.
Bake for half an hour in the oven over medium heat.
Tip: Instead of pancakes, thin Armenian pita bread is often used, cutting it into pieces. This is a good option, only the cake will be a little tougher. You can make pancake pie with unsweetened curd filling - exclude sugar from the filling and filling, adding salt, pepper, greens.
Tricks and Secrets of Cooking Curd Dishes
Curd should be subject to minimal cooking. That is why the time for baking cottage cheese pies or cookies is no more than half an hour in the oven over medium heat.
All cottage cheese dishes have a great taste, but when cooked, the cottage cheese loses some of its qualities useful for digestion. Therefore, it is preferable to use cottage cheese that has not undergone heat treatment.
It is not advisable to add baking soda to the curd, especially in large quantities - the soda reacts with acid, the curd loses its structure. This property is used in the manufacture of cottage cheese. But in baking, it can provide a bad service - the dough will spread, fry, and products will lose their shape.
In many cottage cheese recipes, the sugar used can be replaced with honey - this will add a wonderful flavor to the curd dishes.
Enjoy your meal!
