Cooking original and tasty: curd made from cottage cheese and other ingredients

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Cheesecake is a tasty and nutritious dish made from a natural fermented milk product. It is also prepared in the form of a special pie with the addition of flour, semolina or rice, with dried fruits or spices. We bring to your attention several pleasant and interesting recipes that have long existed in Russian and Ukrainian national cuisine.

Sweet cottage cheese with raisins

To make such a cottage cheese, you need to prepare a soft, airy mass from the cottage cheese. To do this, it is either passed through a fine grate of a meat grinder, or carefully ground through a hair sieve. Or grind it in a blender. The product requires approximately 1 kg. The prepared cottage cheese is placed in a saucepan, sugar (350 g) is poured into it, a pinch of s alt is added, after which the mass should boil over medium heat for a minute and a half. Then, in the future curd from cottage cheese, somewhat chilled, it is necessary to drive 2 chicken eggs. The mass is well kneaded, better by hand, and again put on the gas to warm up. At this stage, the rest of the products are added to the workpiece: 2-3 tablespoons of oilcreamy, a few handfuls of washed and dried raisins, 100 g candied fruit, chopped into pieces.

Again, semi-finished cottage cheese from cottage cheese must be mixed to evenly distribute the components. Pour vanillin, stir, heat for 5 minutes in a water bath. At the end of cooking, the entire cheese mass is laid out on a dish, a cone is formed from it with a spoon and a spatula, placed for half an hour in a cool place. Ready cottage cheese curd is poured with sweet and sour berry syrup or a mixture of syrup and sour cream and served.

Cheesecake with cumin

If you prefer spicy dishes, we will pick up a good recipe for your taste. By analogy with the cooking method described above, you can make another delicacy, only not with raisins, but with cumin.

We think it will appeal to those who are wondering how to make curd cakes from cottage cheese with herbs and spices. The fermented milk product (500 g) is prepared as in the first recipe. It warms up, s alt, ground herbs and 3 tablespoons of butter are added to it. Then the workpiece is removed from the fire, cooled. 15 g of cumin is poured into the curd mass, finely chopped dill, squeezed garlic (3-4 cloves), a little black pepper are mixed. Once again, knead and cool in a cool place. Poured cottage cheese with mayonnaise and mustard sauce, served as a spicy appetizer.

Hungarian curd cake

We talked about how to make cottage cheese pancakes without flour. Now let's talk about baking. For a new dish you will need: 300 g of cottage cheese, a glass of flour, 3-4 tablespoons of sugar, zest of half a large lemon, 50-60 gr. cream, 2 eggs, a little s alt. The curd is crushed. The yolks and whites of the eggs are separated. The yolks are placed immediately in the cottage cheese, sugar and s alt, vanillin, lemon zest are added there, cream is poured in, everything is mixed well. Separately, you need to beat the proteins in a strong foam and gently mix with the curd mass. Put it on a baking sheet, put in a warm oven, bake until golden brown.

Serve with cottage cheese, according to Hungarian customs, a salad of fresh cucumbers and radishes with sour cream and green onions.

Bon appetit to you!