Cottage cheese appetizer: types, recipes

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

Even children know about the benefits of cottage cheese. True, not all of them agree to eat this product, except perhaps in the form of glazed curds. Yes, and housewives, as a rule, do not pay much attention to cottage cheese, considering it most often as an ingredient for making casseroles, dumplings, cheesecakes and toppings for buns. And absolutely in vain. Because you can cook a huge number of other dishes from it, in particular, independent snacks. Moreover, they can also be very diverse in taste - both spicy, s alty, and sweet.

Any appetizer made from cottage cheese can surprise even the most capricious gourmet, especially if he has not been particularly spoiled with dishes made from this product before. And surprise not only with its taste, but also with a very attractive and peculiar look.

Types of snacks

This dairy product goes well with many of the ingredients that are used in the preparation of snacks in the form of various additives. It is equally good with fruits, and with fish, and with hot spices, and with vegetables, and with smoked meats. Perfectlycottage cheese is combined with herbs (the recipe for making just such snacks, and more than one, we will give below).

Mixed with all sorts of fillings, it is often used in this form as a filling for tartlets, rolls, and simply as a spread spread on a sandwich. Or it is the basis for the preparation of a separate dish. Cottage cheese dishes can be not only cold, but also hot. In addition, depending on the ingredients, they can be prepared both as desserts and as snacks served before the main hot dish.

An interesting feature of the product: the hostess, having at her disposal any one type of curd mass, say, the same cottage cheese with herbs, the recipe for creating this or that snack can be modified at her discretion. And end up with a completely new food. For example, stuff zucchini or eggplant, tomato or pepper with this mixture. And believe me, each dish will have an individual taste.

Well, now let's go directly to practice. And first, let's talk about how a spicy cottage cheese appetizer is prepared.

Curd balls

To get a spicy snack, they usually combine cottage cheese with garlic. The recipe, as a rule, does not limit anyone in the amount of the second ingredient, garlic is added to taste (the more it is, the spicier the dish). As for cottage cheese, half a kilogram is needed to make balls. And you need to take the product is quite dense and dry. So, the indicated amount of cottage cheese is ground in a blender, addcrushed (preferably in the press) garlic is added to it, s alted, after which half of a finely chopped bunch of dill is poured. If you wish, you can season the mixture with a pinch of curry. Everything is carefully kneaded, and then balls are molded, rolling each in the remaining chopped dill. Such a cottage cheese appetizer - spicy, very beautiful - should spend at least an hour in the refrigerator. After that, you can serve. By the way, if there is no time to sculpt balls, you can simply spread the mass on black bread and serve food in the form of sandwiches.

Cottage cheese + greens

As we already mentioned, this combination is quite popular. We offer to prepare a very beautiful cream of greens and cottage cheese. For half a kilogram of dry cottage cheese, we take 10 sprigs of cilantro, parsley, basil and dill. Finely chop the greens, put the cottage cheese in a blender bowl, s alt, pour in two tablespoons of heavy cream and add the chopped greens. Then stir everything until the mass becomes puree. The result is a very beautiful dish of amazing green color. If desired, they can fill, for example, tartlets. Curd puree can also be made spicy if you add the same garlic to it.

Potato + cottage cheese

A very simple cottage cheese snack that belongs to the hot category. Take a kilogram of potatoes, and it is desirable that the root crops be the same size. Cleanse and boil. While the potatoes are cooking, you need to grind the cottage cheese (a sachet weighing 200 g will be enough) with a tablespoon of butter, a pinchs alt and the same amount of pepper. Add finely chopped greens to the mass. Cut the finished potatoes into halves, and lengthwise. And then put the curd mass on each piece. And serve immediately.

Appetizer with salmon

We take three hundred grams of salmon (you can replace it with any other red fish), chop finely, mix with a 200-gram bag of dry cottage cheese. Add a couple of tablespoons of olive oil. Then add finely chopped dill. Knead. Further - at will. You can stuff tartlets, or you can spread pita bread with paste and roll it into a roll. Or just make sandwiches with white bread. Well, for an ordinary, not festive table, instead of salmon, you can even take s alted herring fillets. Believe me, it will turn out no less tasty.

Eggs… from cottage cheese

Smoked ham (a 200 g piece will suffice) finely cut with a knife. In a blender, mix half a kilogram of cottage cheese with three tablespoons of soft butter, chopped green onions and a couple of tablespoons of thick sour cream. Add ham. Grate a piece of hard cheese. Then fashion oval dumplings from the curd mass, roll each in grated cheese. In order for the resulting "eggs" to keep their shape, they must be put in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Such a cottage cheese appetizer, however, like many others, can also be used as a spread for sandwiches.

Cucumber boats

Take cucumbers, cut lengthwise.

Cut offbottom of each half so that the products are stable. We get the pulp. And we fill the vacant place with the curd mass, grated in a blender along with cucumber pulp, a few cloves of garlic, a bunch of greens and one bell pepper. Such a cottage cheese appetizer is prepared not only with cucumbers. In the same way, you can make boats from eggplant or zucchini. Only before filling with stuffing, they (already cut, but with pulp) need to be baked either in the oven or in the microwave.

Chocolate curd balls

And finally, a sweet option.

If you take our recipe as a basis, and then replace or add ingredients at your discretion, you can always get a new curd delicacy. As for the basic version: add a tablespoon of sour cream and sugar (or, say, honey or syrup) to the cottage cheese (the same 200 g). Mix thoroughly. Put a tablespoon of the mass on the palm of your hand, make a cake. Then we take any suitable dried fruit (for example, pitted dates, prunes or dried apricots) or nuts (the same almonds). We put it in the middle and form a ball. Which then needs to be rolled in grated chocolate (black, milk, mixed with coconut). After that, a sweet cottage cheese snack is sent to the refrigerator for an hour.