Fried cottage cheese donuts: recipe with photo

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-15 16:28

Do you love donuts and don't know how to cook them? We will tell! The necessary ingredients, popular cooking recipes and the secrets of housewives are all in our article! The recipe for cottage cheese donuts will be your perfect chance to learn how to cook great pastries for your family and friends.

Cooking options

What can donuts look like? With or without stuffing. Plain donuts without filling are quick and easy to prepare. But with stuffed ones you have to tinker. Moreover, the filling can be put into products from both thick dough and soft, similar to sour cream.

If the dough is thick, the filling is introduced during the formation of each donut. The process is laborious and time consuming.

With a soft buttery dough, everything is easier. The first layer of dough is laid out, in the center - a little stuffing, and it is covered with the same layer of dough. After that, with a spatula, the product is laid out in boiling oil for frying. If the recipe uses oven baking, molding takes place directly on a baking sheet lined with thin baking paper.

What toppings?

The most popular filling optionfor donuts - this is a thick jam. But you can use other types:

• finely chopped fruit - fresh or canned (small, or excess juice should be drained after cutting);
• thick berry puree;
• boiled condensed milk.

Donut molding

Hand-shaped donuts from thick dough for a long time. You will have to cut the dough into approximately equal strips and form each donut separately.

Easier option where pieces of soft runny dough are molded into a regular donut ball. This is done with two tablespoons or teaspoons. Dough is collected in one, and the other is removed into boiling fat (deep-frying). So you can cook small donuts and more. And if you are interested in tiny pastries, shape the dough with two coffee spoons.

With this molding, fried cottage cheese donuts (the recipe is quite simple) turn out the same and look good when served.

Another way to shape dough is to use a donut mold. It can be non-stick or silicone with the same recesses for round blanks with a hole inside.

Fry or bake?

The recipe for cottage cheese donuts involves two types of dessert preparation: frying in a large amount of oil or baking in the oven. The last option is great for special confectionery molds.

Recipe for cottage cheese donuts. Quick and easy

Introducing the easiest and fastest recipe for cottage cheese donuts in butter. Their onlynegative quality - high calorie content. But we'll fix it. Lay finished products for a couple of minutes on paper towels folded in several layers. They will absorb excess fat, and the calorie content will noticeably decrease.

What ingredients to take:

• cottage cheese - 500 g;
• chicken egg yolks - 3 pcs;
• sugar - 2-3 tbsp. l.;
• s alt - a pinch;
• vanillin - a pinch;
• wheat flour - 3-4 tbsp. l.;
• baking powder - 1/3 tsp

These are products for making dough, and for deep-frying you will need a relatively large amount of sunflower oil - about 400 g.

Fried cottage cheese donuts (recipe with photo below) are prepared as follows:

• Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve. So the dough will turn out more uniform and tender. But if soft homemade cottage cheese is taken for cooking, this procedure can be omitted.
• Add yolks to the dough and mix well.

• Then add sugar, s alt, vanilla, flour and baking powder. Knead the mass until the consistency becomes homogeneous. Use a regular hand whisk or mixer (first speed) for this.

• Leave the finished dough aside for now so that all its components begin to interact with each other.
• Separately pour liquid oil into a saucepan and place over moderate heat. Once it's hot, donuts can be molded.
• Take two tablespoons andput them in the dough in boiling fat. Products will immediately seize.

Fry them until cooked through - a golden brown crust will appear on the surface.

• Put the finished donuts on a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired. These are the cottage cheese donuts fried in oil. The recipe is over, it remains only to serve dessert.

If you use donuts without powder, you can serve sweet jam or jam from berries or fruits as a sauce for them. Although homemade pumpkin jam with oranges is also suitable for taste.

Almost the same recipe can be used to make yeast doughnuts. Add 30 g of butter, a teaspoon of yeast and more wheat flour to the curd mass. The dough should be soft, elastic and not liquid. In this case, you will have to wait for the dough to rise, and after molding the products, to proof them in a warm place.

Additional ingredients in the dough or the use of icing will help diversify pastries.

Additional foods and spices

Additional ingredients can be included in the recipe for cottage cheese donuts to taste. They are mixed into the dough:

• ground cinnamon;
• cardamom powder;
• raisins or mashed other dried fruits;
• confectionery poppy;
• ground nuts;
• dessert greens - basil, mint, sorrel;
• candied fruits in small slices;
• sesame or sunflower seeds,fried in a dry frying pan.

Glazed donuts - is it hard?

Baked donuts in many recipes are covered with a delicious sweet glaze. These can be cottage cheese donuts. See the recipe with a photo of the glaze below.

Regular chocolate icing is made from chocolate diluted in a water bath with high-quality fatty butter. You can add a little cream to this mixture if the icing is too thick.

Some housewives thought of pouring freshly brewed sugar syrup mixed with butter on hot donuts. But there is a condition here - the syrup should not be too thick or liquid.

There are recipes for custard glaze made from egg whites and sugar syrup and many others.

Let's get acquainted with the simplest options.

Donut Glaze Recipe (No Brewing)

What ingredients to take:

• powdered sugar - 5-6 tbsp. l.;
• lemon juice - 1 tsp;
• 3 egg whites

If you want to diversify the glaze and make it colorful, you should prepare in advance. Shop for food coloring or make your own. For example, you can take 2-4 varieties of jam of different colors: from sea buckthorn, from orange, from blueberries.

An extract, syrup or fresh juice will also work:

• for green - spinach or sorrel;
• for burgundy - cherry;
• for orange - carrot;
• for purple - beetroot;
• forpink - raspberry.

Recipe:

1. So, first, cool the egg whites - so they will beat better. Arm yourself with a mixer and start whipping at its first speed so that the mass does not splatter. Then smoothly shift to the second and third speeds.
2. Already at the second speed, slowly pour in the powdered sugar and add the lemon juice. Do not be afraid if the mass settles a little. When whipping only proteins, the mixture increases in size up to 7 times from the original. And if you beat proteins with sugar, the mass will increase only 3-4 times. This is because sugar makes proteins heavier.
3. Then, at the first speed, introduce some kind of dye or leave the glaze in a snow-white color.

Lemon juice in the list of ingredients can replace citric acid - one pinch. She immediately interferes with the proteins before whipping.

With icing, the recipe for cottage cheese donuts is a little more complicated and takes more time. But quick frosting can be done while the donuts are cooling, and then immediately cover the products with it.

It is better to leave the pastries to cool on the wire rack and do not cover with anything, so the dough will remain fluffy and loose.