Cheesecake with apple is not yet a pie, but it is a very tender, sweet, juicy and everyone’s favorite dish.
Appetizing cottage cheeses are fried in a frying pan or baked in the oven, served for breakfast, afternoon snack or dessert, and there are many recipes.
The best are collected here.
Cheesecakes with apples - general principles of preparation
For cheesecakes, it is best to use simple cottage cheese without additives; you can use a low-fat product. Some recipes indicate that it needs to be pureed, but if the consistency is soft, then just knead it.
What else is put into the curd dough:
• eggs;
• flour, semolina, oatmeal;
• vanilla, cinnamon;
• sugar, salt.
Apples for cheesecakes are usually simply added to the dough. The fruits are cut into pieces and mixed with the total mass. Then cheesecakes are formed. Classic puck shape. But you can always mold just balls, make oval products or give them another shape. It all depends on your imagination and test capabilities.
Description of preparation:
Preparing cheesecakes with apples is quite simple and does not require much time from you.
The ingredients are simple and affordable, and the results are excellent! An ideal solution for a quick, tasty and satisfying breakfast or snack throughout the day. Adjust the amount of sugar in the recipe to taste, depending on your preference and the sweetness of the apples. You can also add crushed chocolate, nuts or coconut to the cottage cheese for variety. In any case, the result is a simple, but at the same time very tender and tasty dish! Purpose: For breakfast / For children / For breakfast / Afternoon snack / For an afternoon snack / Inexpensive / In a hurry Main ingredient: Dairy products / Cottage cheese Dish: Baking / Cheesecakes / Sweet Geography of cuisine: Russian cuisine
Tender cheesecakes on semolina in the oven
For breakfast, as well as for an afternoon snack, you can prepare excellent tender cheesecakes with vanilla, and serve such airy and unusually tender curd pastries, preferably with sour cream sauce.
Ingredients
- ready-made sour cream sauce for serving (to taste);
- low-fat cottage cheese (430 g);
- baking powder (8 g);
- sweet apple (1 pc);
- vanilla powder (two sachets);
- softened sweet butter (48 g);
- small raw chicken eggs (two pieces);
- fine granulated sugar (73 g);
- semolina (65 g);
- homemade thick sour cream (140 g).
Cooking process
Place powdered vanillin in a bowl and add low-fat cottage cheese, then add fine granulated sugar, then mash the ingredients with a fork for several minutes. Break the chicken eggs into the same bowl and mash everything thoroughly with a fork again, then add semolina and homemade sour cream, add soft butter to this bowl and mix everything with your hands until a thick mass is obtained.
The apple must be peeled and the pulp cut into small cubes.
Prepare small muffin tins and grease them with oil, then sprinkle them evenly with wheat flour or semolina, then pour the vanilla-curd mixture into them in equal portions, filling them halfway. Place 1 spoon of chopped apples on top and cover with the remaining curd mass. Lightly compact it with moistened hands.
Next, the molds with vanilla cheesecakes must be sent to the oven, preheated to 210 degrees and baked for no more than thirty minutes, then put them on a flat dish and pour over sweet sour cream sauce, serve warm.
Lush and aromatic cheesecakes in a frying pan
Lush and soft cheesecakes are an ideal option for a family meal. Even a novice housewife can handle preparing such a treat. You won’t have to stand at the stove for too long, because everything is done very quickly.
Ingredients
- flour – 2 tablespoons;
- 1 ripe sweet apple;
- 1-2 teaspoons lemon juice;
- cottage cheese – 500 grams;
- soda - half a teaspoon;
- eggs – 2 pieces;
- salt - half a teaspoon;
- sugar – 2 tablespoons.
Step-by-step preparation
Peel and seed the apple and cut it into very small cubes, sprinkle with lemon juice so that it does not change color while we prepare the dough for the cheesecakes.
Place cottage cheese, flour, sugar, soda, eggs beaten with salt in a deep bowl, mix all the products thoroughly to obtain a mass of homogeneous consistency. You can add apples directly to the dough, or you can make the filling by placing 1 spoon inside each cheesecake - it's up to you.
Heat the oil in a frying pan, carefully spoon the mixture into small heaps with a tablespoon at a short distance from each other.
When the cheesecakes are fried on one side, carefully turn them over to the other side and cover the container with a lid.
We cover the cutting board with paper towels in several layers, and place the finished dessert on them so that the excess oil is absorbed into the material.
You can serve the treat by flavoring it with jam or sour cream. Such cheesecakes will not leave your loved ones indifferent. Bon appetit!
Recipe 4: simple apple curd cheesecakes
- cottage cheese - 500 grams
- egg - 1 pc.
- sugar - 3 tbsp.
- baking powder - 1 tsp.
- flour - 4 tbsp. (plus some flour for dredging cheesecakes)
- salt - a pinch
- apples - 2 pcs.
It is better to choose cottage cheese for cheesecakes of medium consistency - not very dry and not wet. Pour salt and sugar into the cottage cheese, break an egg and mix with a fork.
Added flour and baking powder. The amount of flour depends on the moisture content of the cottage cheese plus the quality of the flour itself; add little by little to form a mass from which you can make cheesecakes so that they do not spread.
I peeled the apples, cut them into small cubes and put them in the cottage cheese.
I mixed it and it turned out to be a thick curd mass.
I took a little curd mass with wet hands, made a cheesecake and rolled it in flour.
I fry cheesecakes with apples in hot vegetable oil, first on one side.
Then on the other until golden brown.
Cheesecakes with apple filling are ready.
With dried fruits
Cheesecakes can be prepared with the addition of dried fruits.
Dried fruits often act as a sweet accent, making the dish unique.
Composition of ingredients
To prepare the dish you will need:
- 200 g cottage cheese;
- 1 handful of raisins;
- 5 tbsp. l. wheat flour;
- 30 g granulated sugar;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 1-2 g baking soda;
- 2 medium apples.
You can also use vanillin and cinnamon.
Step-by-step cooking process
Step-by-step cooking process:
- Apples should be washed under running water and then peeled and cored. The fruits must be cut into small cubes and then thrown into the pan. To the apples you need to add a little sugar and a piece of butter.
- The product must be fried until darkened and then cooled.
- In a separate container you need to mix the egg and granulated sugar. The ingredients must be beaten with a mixer until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- In a separate bowl, mix cottage cheese, granulated sugar and soda. The products must be mixed well, and then gradually add flour.
- The products need to be mixed well, and then add the previously prepared mixture, apples and raisins.
- The mixture must be mixed well and then formed into small balls from the resulting dough.
- Pour flour onto a work surface and then roll the cakes.
Cheesecakes must be fried in a well-heated frying pan until cooked.
How to serve a dish
The finished dish should be served hot. If desired, you can serve condensed milk, sour cream, jam or other sauces - to suit your tastes.
With honey
Honey-curd cheesecakes are quite popular due to their unusual natural taste.
Bee honey replaces granulated sugar in the recipe.
Composition of ingredients
To prepare the dish you will need:
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 40 g wheat flour;
- 0.5 kg of fat cottage cheese;
- 4 tbsp. l. semolina;
- 2 medium sized apples;
- 30 ml liquid bee honey;
- 2 g table salt.
If desired, you can add a little cinnamon or vanillin to the dish.
Step-by-step cooking process
The cooking process is quite simple:
- Place cottage cheese, chicken eggs, wheat flour, semolina, sweetener and table salt in a deep bowl. You need to knead the dough with your hands, mixing the mass carefully to maintain the structure of the mass.
- This mixture should be left for 25-30 minutes for the cottage cheese to infuse and the semolina to swell.
- While the dough is being prepared, you need to wash and peel the fruit (remove the core). Peeled fruits need to be grated on a coarse grater and then added to the already prepared dough.
- The products must be mixed again and then formed into small balls from the resulting mass.
- Pour flour into a flat bowl. Each ball needs to be flattened a little to make a flat cake. The tortillas need to be rolled on each side in flour.
- Prepared cheesecakes must be fried on both sides until brownish crust, in a preheated frying pan sprinkled with vegetable oil.
This dough makes approximately 16-18 cheesecakes, depending on the size of the balls.
How to serve a dish
The dish must be served hot. If desired, you can serve the product with hot drinks and warm milk. You can also decorate the product with sour cream, jam and Greek yogurt.
With semolina
Cheesecakes with apple and cottage cheese, prepared with semolina, are a tasty and healthy dish. Semolina in the composition of curd cheesecakes makes the finished dough denser, but when adding an apple the product becomes “correct”.
Composition of ingredients
To prepare the dish you will need:
- 30-40 g granulated sugar;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 200 g cottage cheese;
- 1 medium sized apple;
- 2-3 g table salt;
- 60 ml vegetable oil;
- 2 tbsp. l. semolina;
- 15-20 g wheat flour.
You can also add a little cinnamon or vanilla.
Step-by-step cooking process
The step-by-step cooking process is simple:
- The curd needs to be squeezed out of the whey and then placed in a deep bowl.
- To the fermented milk product you must add a chicken egg, granulated sugar and table salt.
- Using a masher, you need to thoroughly grind the cottage cheese, while simultaneously mixing this mass.
- You need to add semolina to the resulting mass, and then mix the product well.
- The bowl of cottage cheese should be left until it swells.
- While the dough is being prepared, you need to peel and core the apple. The fruit must be grated on a fine grater.
- When the dough is more dense, you need to add an apple to the dish and mix well.
- The product must be mixed well, and then the resulting dough must be formed into small plump cakes.
- In a preheated frying pan, pre-sprayed with oil, fry the cheesecakes on both sides until golden brown.
This dough will yield approximately 5-8 medium-sized cheesecakes.
How to serve a dish
The dish must be served hot. If desired, you can decorate the product with any sauce - to your taste. For this you can use jam, honey, sour cream or syrup. The product can be decorated with berries or fruits, and also add a few fresh mint leaves.
