Cottage cheese is a healthy and tasty product. What can not be cooked from cottage cheese! Simple recipes for casseroles and cheesecakes will make tea drinking a real celebration! And if the dishes are prepared from home-made cottage cheese, the result will be simply amazing! In this article we will share recipes for what can be prepared from this wonderful product. You will also learn how to cook cottage cheese at home from plain milk.
Cooking cottage cheese in a slow cooker
There is no simpler recipe than this. For the preparation of cottage cheese, we need a liter of kefir or sour milk. From this amount you get about 250 grams of the product we need.
Pour kefir / sour milk into the bowl of the multicooker, set the mode "Milk porridge" for half an hour.
At the end of time, open the lid, you will see that in the bowl there is cottage cheese, separated from the whey. The liquid must be drained, squeeze the curd through cheesecloth. It is better not to pour the whey at all, but leave it to prepare pancakes or pancakes!
How to cook homemade cottage cheese from milk?
Any pastries will be tastier if you use personally cooked products, cottage cheese among them. We have already learned how to make cottage cheese from kefir, now let's see how it is made from milk, or rather, yogurt (sour milk). We will cook without a slow cooker, it is not much harder.
The first thing to do is to buy real milk, homemade. Magazine will not work, because it may not be of the best quality, made of powder.
Having bought milk, pour it into a glass jar, let it brew until cream appears, remove them. Add a spoonful of kefir or homemade sour cream to milk to ferment it faster. In no case do not put the milk in the refrigerator, it sours longer, and the taste is not changing for the better.
Note that the product is ready for the preparation of cottage cheese, according to the separated serum and sour smell. Let's start the direct preparation.
In a deep pan we put a towel (so the jar will not burst), on it - a jar of yogurt. Do not cover with a lid. Pour so much water into the pan so that it is flush with milk. We start an average fire, heat the yogurt to 40-45 degrees. When the temperature is reached, the cottage cheese will separate from the yogurt, rise up. We take out the jar, leave to cool on the table.
Next, pour the product on cheesecloth, squeeze and leave to drain, you can put it under the press to speed up the process.
Ready cottage cheese can be salted, sugar, add sour cream and eat, or you can cook something delicious from it. What can be cooked from cottage cheese? Let's get a look.
How to cook cottage cheese pancakes in a pan
This is a real feast of the stomach! Prepare this simple dish for tea, children will especially appreciate it! To begin with, we will offer the simplest recipe - how to cook cottage cheese pancakes.
We will need:
- 300 grams of cottage cheese;
- one egg;
- a glass of flour;
- two tablespoons of sour cream;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- sugar.
Cottage cheese needs to be kneaded with a fork. Introduce the egg, sour cream, baking powder and sugar, mix. Pour the flour, mix with a blender so that there are no lumps.
We form balls, roll in flour and spread in hot oil. Cover, fry, checking readiness for a red color. When the first side is fried, turn over, fry without a lid.
Serve with sour cream, jam, condensed milk!
Cheesecakes with raisins
How to cook cottage cheese pancakes in a pan so as not to be repeated every time? We offer to diversify the recipe with raisins and vanilla. To make a real treat out of cottage cheese, take:
- 300 grams of cottage cheese;
- two tablespoons of sour cream;
- half a glass of raisins;
- a glass of flour;
- egg;
- a bag of vanillin;
- a spoon of baking powder;
- sugar.
Raisins need to be washed well, then add water and allow to swell. After this, drain the water, put it on a paper towel, dry well, removing excess moisture.
In the raisins you need to put the cottage cheese, beat the egg, add sugar, vanilla, baking powder, mix. Introduce the flour in a thin stream, stirring to avoid the formation of lumps. We form koloboks, roll in flour.
Fry cheesecakes as described in the previous recipe.
Cheesecakes with chocolate
This dish is easy to prepare. We will form balls from the curd, and inside we hide the slices of milk chocolate. You can choose the filling to your taste, but dark chocolate will not work. You can use milk, white, porous - as your heart desires!
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of cottage cheese;
- egg;
- a glass of flour;
- sugar;
- baking powder;
- chocolate bar.
Mix all the ingredients except chocolate, as described above. Put in the palm of your hand a tablespoon of the dough. You can dust your palm with flour. In the center we put half a slice of chocolate, roll the ball, roll in semolina.
Pour enough oil into the pan so that it hides the cottage cheese until the middle. We well heat it, spread the cheesecakes and fry, reducing the fire.
The result is cheesecakes with soft chocolate filling inside.
Cheesecakes with oatmeal
We offer to cook cottage cheese pancakes, the recipe of which involves the use of cereal.
Ingredients:
- one hundred grams of cottage cheese;
- egg;
- four tablespoons of flour;
- two tablespoons of oatmeal.
Cooking cheesecakes:
All ingredients must be mixed before dough. It should be such that it is easy to sculpt from it - not liquid, not too thick. We form a sausage, cut into pieces, form flat cakes.
Fry on both sides until a beautiful red color is obtained.
Diet cheesecakes
Those who are on a diet sometimes want to eat something tasty. We offer a low-calorie recipe for cottage cheese pancakes, which everyone who follows a diet can cook and eat. This will require:
- a pound of fat-free cottage cheese;
- two eggs;
- three tablespoons of oatmeal;
- some salt and a little sugar.
All ingredients must be mixed to create a dough that can be slightly liquid. On a baking sheet, spread the baking paper, spread a portion of the dough on it with a tablespoon. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, send cheese cakes to a beautiful crust.
Of course, such a dish can be eaten while dieting, not too often. But it is able to give pleasure, and you will not tear yourself off after eating chocolate or a huge sweet bun!
What can be prepared from cottage cheese besides cheesecakes? For example, a casserole! Since we got to the oven, we will not stop!
Cottage cheese casserole
How to cook cottage cheese casserole to plunge into childhood? We offer the very recipe for incredibly tasty, fragrant pastries, the taste of which is familiar to everyone from kindergarten! To prepare it, we need:
- a pound of cottage cheese;
- three tablespoons of sugar;
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- one hundred grams of raisins;
- three tablespoons of sour cream;
- two tablespoons of semolina;
- two tablespoons of butter;
- vanillin;
- one egg.
It is necessary to knead the cottage cheese well with a fork, add the butter, melted previously, the egg, sugar, salt, vanillin and semolina to it. Grind everything with a blender.
Raisins need to be kept in water for about three hours so that it swells. After that, wash it well, remove all the garbage, put it in the curd mass, mix it.
On a baking sheet we spread the baking paper, pour our dough on it. Level the surface, then grease with sour cream.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, send a baking sheet into it for forty minutes.
You can serve such a treat with condensed milk, candied sour cream!
Pumpkin casserole
You can cook such a wonderful dish as casserole from cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is useful in itself, but by adding a pumpkin to it, you can get benefits many times more! For a casserole you will need:
- a pound of cottage cheese;
- one orange;
- two hundred grams of fresh pumpkin;
- three chicken eggs;
- one hundred grams of sour cream;
- half a cup of semolina;
- half a glass of sugar;
- a spoonful of butter.
Mix cottage cheese well with eggs and sugar, you can wipe with a fork. Add semolina and sour cream, again we interfere.
We clean the pumpkin and rub on a fine grater. Remove the zest from the orange. We interfere both ingredients in the curd mass.
On a baking sheet we line the baking paper (if you forgot to buy one, then use the old method: we cut out ordinary paper to the size of the baking sheet, lightly grease it with vegetable or butter). Pour the dough, put in the oven for an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.
When a blush appears, remove our casserole, grease the surface with butter.
Multicooker casserole
You can cook casserole from cottage cheese without an oven - in a slow cooker. It turns out it is no worse, just as lush, tight when cooling - easy to cut into pieces. Serve this delicious dish with what your heart desires: with jam, honey, condensed milk, sour cream, melted chocolate. From the main ingredients for the direct preparation of casseroles, take:
- a pound of cottage cheese;
- a glass of kefir;
- three quarters of a glass of sugar;
- four eggs;
- half a cup of semolina;
- a teaspoon of baking powder;
- a quarter teaspoon of salt;
- some raisins or candied fruit.
Saucepan pan should be greased with margarine or butter.
Beat the eggs until fluffy, introduce sugar, beat again. Next, add: cottage cheese, semolina, kefir, baking powder, salt. At the very end we spread raisins / candied fruits, mix.
The dough should turn out quite thin, pour it into a saucepan. Set the mode for baking, and the time is 45 minutes. After the casserole is cooked, you need to carefully, using a spatula to separate it from the walls of the pan. We take a plate, cover the pan and turn it over. That's all, we got the casserole! It remains to wait for cooling, grease with something tasty and serve for tea. Of course, this baking is tasty and without additional ingredients!
Curd "peaches"
Finally, I want to share this wonderful recipe. "Peaches" from cottage cheese are similar to real ones - the same lush, red. It is recommended to eat them in a cooled form, the crust will crunch deliciously! We will need:
- a pound of cottage cheese;
- half a cup of semolina;
- two eggs;
- two tablespoons of sour cream;
- a pinch of salt;
- three tablespoons (as much as possible) of sugar;
- baking powder.
We mix all the ingredients, the cottage cheese does not need to be mashed with a fork. The dough will turn out liquid, as it should be, do not add semolina or flour.
Pour vegetable oil into a saucepan or saucepan, as for frying brushwood, heat it. Pour the dough into a hot oil with a teaspoon, immediately disconnect it from the bottom with a spatula, “peaches” should emerge. As soon as the first side becomes red, turn over, do not let it fall to the bottom.
As a result, curd peaches swell due to semolina. You can eat them just like that, or you can with sour cream or another ingredient!