One pack of cottage cheese contains 200 grams, but there are packs of 180 and 250 grams. Still, if you make cheesecakes from a pack of cottage cheese, the recipe should have 200 grams as a standard; this amount will yield two or three servings. The simplest cottage cheeses - the classic ones, with semolina, with raisins - are very easy to prepare, and you don’t need much ingredients for them. If you follow simple rules, you will get cheesecakes that will be a soft curd dessert.
Cooking method (step by step)
First you need to start preparing the products. You need natural cottage cheese for cheesecakes. Cottage cheese with 9-18% fat content is better. Eggs should also be fresh and large. The ideal option is a homemade product. The oil for this dish can be any - vegetable, olive, butter, melted butter.
The cottage cheese is kneaded with a fork, but you can pass it through a fine grater. This will help achieve uniformity.
- One egg is driven into the cottage cheese. Everything is stirred.
- Salt is added and all ingredients are mixed again.
- The next step is adding sugar. You can use brown sugar. Then the curds will have a caramel taste. You can enrich the taste with cinnamon, vanilla or vanilla sugar.
- Flour must be sifted (60 grams). Sifting the flour through a sieve will enrich it with oxygen and the resulting cheesecakes will be airy and tender. It is better to add grades 1 and 2 flour. Premium flour is often bleached with chlorine.
- The resulting dough must be mixed.
- Small cakes are formed from the dough
- Each flatbread is rolled in flour and fried in well-heated oil.
- Cheese pancakes are fried over medium heat for 7 minutes on one side and 7-10 minutes on the other.
Just 30 minutes and delicious curds are ready. They can be served for breakfast, afternoon tea, with sour cream, jam, or jam.
The best recipes for sweet cheesecakes
Often, cottage cheese cakes are prepared as a sweet dessert. Despite this, they can serve as an independent snack dish or become a hearty and nutritious breakfast or dinner. Adding components to the curd base allows you to vary the taste, creating new variations of the dish.
Vanilla curds with orange flavor
The classic recipe for cottage cheese pancakes with minor modifications will give you delicious, spicy flatbreads.
Required ingredients:
- cottage cheese – 250-300 g;
- flour – 5-6 tbsp. spoon;
- egg – 2 pcs.;
- sugar – 2.5-3 tbsp. spoons;
- vanilla sugar – 1 packet;
- orange zest – 1 teaspoon;
- oil - for frying;
- powdered sugar - for decoration.
How to do it correctly:
Grind the fatty cottage cheese using a sieve or meat grinder. Beat eggs into it. Add sugar and flavorings. Fluff the flour, and then add it to the total mass. Mix all ingredients.
For a smooth dough, place the mixture in a blender. Beat for a few minutes until smooth. Leave the dough in the cold for 30 minutes.
Roll the cooled mass into a small roll. Cut it into circles 3 cm thick. Roll each circle into a neat ball and then flatten it, turning it into a flat cake.
Heat the oil (approximately 100 ml) well. Fry the curd cakes on it until they have a golden crust.
Before serving, sprinkle slightly cooled cheesecakes with powdered sugar.
Curd donut balls like in childhood
Round cottage cheese donuts are a common type of cheesecake. Everyone remembers this recipe for cottage cheese pancakes, because... Such deep-fried cottage cheese was prepared in every home. This was a favorite childhood delicacy - a delicate sweet curd filling in a crispy crust.
Required ingredients:
- cottage cheese – 300-350 g;
- egg – 2 pcs.;
- flour – 1.5-2 cups;
- sugar – ½ cup;
- vanillin – ½ packet;
- vinegar – 1 teaspoon;
- salt - a pinch;
- soda – ¾ teaspoon;
- oil - for frying;
- powder - for sprinkling.
How to do it correctly:
Mash dry cottage cheese with granulated sugar well with a fork or grind the ingredients in a blender. Beat in the eggs and mash the mass. Add vanillin, salt and soda slaked with vinegar.
In 2 additions, add fluffed flour to the cottage cheese. Stirring constantly, knead a homogeneous dough with a thick consistency.
Form the entire dough into 5 cm balls. Heat the oil in a saucepan or deep frying pan. Place several cheesecakes so that they do not touch each other. You need to pour in so much oil that it completely covers the curd products.
Fry the balls for 3-5 minutes until a nice golden color. Before serving, sprinkle the dessert with powdered sugar.
Cheesecakes with chocolate filling
The proposed recipe is suitable for avid sweet tooths and capricious children who are difficult to feed with healthy cottage cheese. Cheese pancakes made from curd mass combined with chocolate will please absolutely everyone.
Required ingredients:
- cottage cheese – 500 gr;
- semolina – 3 tbsp. spoons;
- egg – 1 pc.;
- butter – 50 g;
- milk chocolate – 50 g;
- sugar - to taste;
- salt - a pinch;
- oil - for frying.
How to do it correctly:
To make the finished product more tender, grind all the cottage cheese with a meat grinder or press through a sieve.
Add the egg to the mixture, add softened butter. Add salt, sugar, semolina. Mix the ingredients thoroughly and leave the mixture for 10 minutes. This is necessary so that the semolina groats swell to the desired size.
Break the chocolate into small pieces according to the number of intended cheesecakes.
Make flat cakes from the curd mass. Place a piece of chocolate in the center of the dough. Cover it with the second cake. Give the correct shape.
Fry the cheesecakes in a small amount of hot vegetable oil until they are covered with a golden crust on all sides.
Lush cheesecakes with semolina
This cottage cheese delicacy can be prepared in an hour. The dish will be a great addition to tea. For 4 servings you can’t do without:
- 200 g of cottage cheese;
- one egg;
- 1 tbsp granulated sugar;
- 1 tbsp. spoons of semolina;
- 1 tbsp. spoons of flour;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil;
- pinches of salt.
Preparation
Prepare all components of the dish. In order for the baked goods to turn out to be of high quality, all products must be at the same temperature, so it is better to first remove the eggs and cottage cheese from the refrigerator.
- Mash the cottage cheese with a fork until smooth and beat in one egg. For a weight of 200 grams of cottage cheese, it is better to take one small egg. If the farm only has large ones, it is better to introduce only the yolk.
- Everything gets mixed up.
- Granulated sugar is added to the flour and the mass is stirred again.
- Next, add 30 grams of semolina to the dough and leave for 10 minutes. Due to semolina, the dough will be denser.
- Pour the rest of the semolina and flour into a separate container and mix everything.
- Form cheesecakes from the dough and roll them in flour and semolina.
- Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat it up. The oil can be any kind, but it must be refined. Then the cheesecakes won’t be able to burn.
- Curds are placed in heated oil.
- The gas is decreasing. Cheesecakes are fried for 10 minutes.
- After this time, the cheesecakes are turned over to the other side.
- The heat is reduced to minimum, the dish is brought to readiness.
Ruddy fluffy cheesecakes are served with tea with jam or condensed milk.
If you're tired of regular cheesecakes, it's time to switch to a treat with additives. They can be different: bananas, apricots, raisins, nuts.
Easy and quick to prepare with the addition of bananas
Who among us doesn't like bananas? This fruit is filled with vitamins, and if you add it to cheesecakes, you get a great taste.
Ingredients:
- 250 grams of cottage cheese,
- 200 grams of bananas,
- two large spoons of granulated sugar,
- one egg,
- sunflower oil,
- four large spoons of wheat flour,
- a little cornmeal if desired (you will need it as a breading).
Preparation:
1. Lay out the entire specified amount of cottage cheese. Beat in the egg.
2. Peel the banana and cut into small pieces. If your fruit is of good ripeness, mash the pulp with a fork.
3. Immediately add salt and granulated sugar to the mixture, stir until smooth, and then add banana pulp.
You can also grate the fruit and grate the cottage cheese through a sieve. Then the finished treat will be very tender.
Mix with wheat flour.
4. Place the cornmeal in a large bowl, divide the dough into equal balls and flatten.
If you don't want to use flour, water will do the trick. To do this, simply wet your hands with it and form cakes.
It is good to sprinkle all products with flour. Then place on a heated, greased frying pan. Fry on each side until golden brown.
Place on a beautiful plate, decorate with a berry on top and bring to the table. You can eat it with anything, I usually put sour cream or fruit jam next to it.
Cheesecakes with raisins
This dessert consists of:
- cottage cheese – 400 gr;
- flour – 100 gr;
- raisins – 100 gr;
- eggs – 1 pc.;
- sugar – 60 gr.;
- vanilla sugar – 5 g;
- baking powder – 5 g;
- salt – 2 grams.
How to cook
It will take one hour to prepare cheesecakes with raisins (6 servings).
Food preparation
The raisins are washed, poured with boiling water and left for 15 minutes. When it is soft, you need to put it in a colander and let the water drain. Mash the cottage cheese with a fork or pass through a grater. It is better to use natural cottage cheese with 9-12% fat content.
- An egg is driven into the mashed cottage cheese and granulated sugar is added.
- Everything is mixed with the addition of vanilla sugar, salt, and raisins.
- 60 grams of flour and baking powder are sifted through a sieve and added in portions to the dough.
- Soaked raisins are added.
- The dough must be kneaded until it has a homogeneous consistency. It should be slightly viscous and sticky.
- Roll the dough into balls, then shape them into flat cakes and roll in flour.
- Place cheesecakes in a frying pan with heated refined vegetable oil and fry over medium heat for 7 minutes.
- Turn over to the other side, close with a lid and leave on low heat for another 7 minutes.
Golden cheesecakes are ready. You can serve with sour cream, honey, jam, condensed milk.
How to cook “Classic cottage cheese pancakes”
1. First, mash the cottage cheese with the egg and sugar using a blender or fork. Then add sifted flour and baking powder to them and mix well until smooth.
2. Next, form the cheesecakes with your hands and lightly dust them with flour.
3. Fry on both sides in hot sunflower oil until golden brown. Place the fried cheesecakes on a paper towel.
4. Prepare the sauce for the cheesecakes. To do this, evaporate a little juice from frozen or fresh berries over low heat, mixing them with a small amount of sugar.
5. Then serve the cheesecakes, garnishing them with berry sauce. Bon appetit!
Cheesecakes in the oven
This dish can be prepared not only in a frying pan, but also in the oven. Here's the classic recipe. For 8 servings you will need:
- 540 g of cottage cheese;
- half an egg;
- 60 grams of sand-sugar;
- 80 g flour;
- 30 grams of butter.
In order to prepare a delicacy in the oven, the cottage cheese should be soft, not crumbly. It is better to use natural cottage cheese with maximum fat content.
- Beat half the egg in a cup and pour into a deep container.
- Add mashed cottage cheese, granulated sugar and 2 tablespoons of flour to the egg.
- The dough is thoroughly mixed.
- Take a cutting board and “dust” it with flour.
- The dough is laid out on a board on top of the flour and a sausage is formed from it. The thickness should be no more than 6 cm. The sausage must be rolled in flour.
- Cut identical washers from it.
- Form each puck into a flat cake, rolling in flour.
- Put butter in a frying pan and melt. Place the curds there and fry until a golden crust appears.
- After this, the cheesecakes are placed on a greased baking sheet and placed in the oven for 7 minutes.
The cottage cheese is ready. Can be served with sour cream and fresh berries.
