Curd pie: recipes, cooking features and reviews

What is a curd pie? How to cook it? In the article we will answer these and other questions as detailed as possible. Curd cakes in Russia have been prepared for centuries, so you can safely call them classics of Russian cuisine. This pastry is perfect for breakfast, as cottage cheese is considered a hearty and wholesome product. Curd dough is well combined with fruit and berry fillings or sauces, which are served with finished products before serving. We will study some interesting recipes for this dish below.

Benefit

The basic ingredient of cottage cheese pie is cottage cheese, which contains amino acids, vitamins, and mineral substances. That is why this product is very useful for people of any age.

So, amino acids are needed for the exchange of fats and proteins, calcium strengthens the bone system and teeth, phosphorus is involved in the creation of bone tissue. Cottage cheese also contains choline, which improves the activity of the nervous system. There are also proteins that are digested much easier than meat ones.

Cottage cheese, by the way, is one of the oldest fermented milk products. The ancient Roman philosopher Columella said that this is a "desirable food", which must be present on the table and the poor and the rich. Probably, the granular and dense mass allowed our ancestors to diversify the menu, seduced them with impeccable taste and, without a doubt, provided the required energy for physical labor.

Classic recipe

To create a classic curd pie, take:

• oil - 100 g;
• baking powder - 1/2 tsp;
• two eggs;
• Art. flour;
• sugar - half a cup.

Prepare the filling from the following components:

• 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
• cottage cheese - 250 g;
• vanilla essence - 1 tsp;
• 2 eggs.

This recipe for cottage cheese pie stipulates the implementation of the following steps:

1. Pour flour and baking powder into a bowl.
2. Add sugar and home-made butter here.
3. Hand rub all the components into crumbs.
4. Prepare the filling. To do this, put the cottage cheese in a separate bowl, add the eggs, sugar, vanilla extract and mix everything thoroughly.
5. Cut the dough into two parts. Place one in a square shape with the parameters 20 x 20, covered with parchment, and tamp a little.
6. Spread the curd filling on top of the dough.
7. Sprinkle with the remaining dough and place in the oven, heated to 200 ° C, for 40 minutes.

Cool the product, cut into pieces and serve. This cake can be cooked together with the kids, entrusting them, for example, to grind the components for the dough. Then it will be interesting for the children to fill out the form with this test and form a pie. Of course, children will be the first to try the cake and appreciate it. Surely they will ask for supplements!

With sour cream

Consider another recipe for cottage cheese pie. We take:

• half a glass of sugar;
• one and a half glasses of flour;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• animal oil - 125 g.

To create a curd filling, buy:

• 1 tsp vanilla sugar;
• a pound of cottage cheese;
• sugar - half a glass;
• 3 eggs;
• a glass of sour cream;
• dried fruits or raisins cut into small cubes.

Cook this delicious cottage cheese pie like this:

1. Pound the softened cow butter with sugar.
2. Mix flour with baking powder and send to butter. Stir all the ingredients with your hands so that you get flour crumbs. This is the dough.
3. Mash the cottage cheese with a fork or wipe with a hand blender.
4. Add egg yolks and sour cream to the curd, stir well.
5. Beat the whites with sugar in a stable foam, combine with the curd and mix gently.
6. Pour 2/3 of the dough on a baking sheet or in a baking dish.
7. Put the protein-curd mass on top, sprinkle with the remaining dough.
8. Bake the curd cake in the oven for half an hour at 180 ° C.

With berries

And how to cook curd pie with berries? Step by step recipe consider the following. You will need:

• 150 g of cow's butter;
• one and a half Art. flour;
• one egg;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• sugar - 100 g.
  

To create the filling, take:

• two eggs;
• sour cream - 100 g;
• a pound of cottage cheese;
• sugar - 100 g;
• 300 g of blueberries (can be replaced with blueberries, cherries, cranberries or currants).

This recipe for a cottage cheese pie, made in the oven , stipulates the implementation of these steps:

1. Sift flour with baking powder.
2. Cut cold butter into slices, send into flour and grind to the state of wet crumbs.
3. Add the egg and sugar, knead the dough. Wrap in polyethylene and send for half an hour to the cold.
4. Cook the stuffing. To do this, wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve, add sugar, sour cream and eggs, beat to the same mass with a mixer.
5. Put the dough in a split mold, buttered with butter. Fashion the sides with a height of 4-5 cm.
6. Pour the filling into the dough, pour the berries on top.
7. Bake the cottage cheese pie in the oven for 35 minutes at 180 ° C.
8. Cool the product and remove from the mold.

Cottage cheese

This cottage cheese pie is an unusually fragrant and delicious pastry. This is an impeccable option for those who do not like cottage cheese in its pure form, but know about its qualities and want to introduce it into its diet. We take:

• 80 g of flour;
• sugar - a couple of tbsp. l .;
• one chicken egg;
• Cow butter - 40 g.

For the filling, take:

• 150 ml cream;
• 70 g of sugar;
• two eggs;
• cottage cheese - 250 g.

Features of creating a curd

You can decorate the top of this dessert as you like. You can sprinkle the cake with coconut flakes or grated chocolate, use any icing. You can also pour the cottage cheese with a molten piece of chocolate. If you add nuts to it, the taste will be even more interesting.

How to cook?

This is an unusual curd cake. Implement the recipe step by step as follows:

1. First make a sand base for the cake. To do this, combine cow butter with a little sugar.
2. Add the chicken egg to the mixture and grind everything with a whisk. The mass of the same type will not work, but it does not matter at this stage.
3. Pour the sifted flour, knead elastic and soft dough. If it sticks to your hands, add a little more flour.
4. Put the dough in the form, smeared with animal oil, smooth. Send for 7 minutes to the oven, heated to 160 ° C. It is better to use a detachable form. Some housewives recommend placing the mold in a container filled with water. But if your oven doesn’t dry the cakes very much, you can do without it.
5. Now break eggs into a deep bowl, add sugar and beat with a mixer.
6. Send cream to the mass, here the cottage cheese is wiped through a fine sieve.
7. Beat the components to the same state.
8. Remove the baked cake from the oven and pour the curd mass on it.
9. Return to the oven and bake at 160 ° C for half an hour. It is better to cover the product with foil on top so that it does not become too dark.
10. Cool the finished cake, and then transfer it to the dish.
11. Pour melted chocolate over the curd and set aside.

When the chocolate hardens, you can cut the dessert into portions, or you can serve the whole.

With apples

Both adults and children love cottage cheese and apple pie. To create it you need:

• 4 eggs;
• cow oil - 200 g;
• two glasses of flour;
• sugar - one and a half glasses;
• sour cream - 100 g;
• 4 apples
• 10 g baking powder;
• cinnamon (optional);
• a pound of cottage cheese.
  

Cook the cottage cheese and apple pie as follows:

1. Break the eggs and separate the yolks from the proteins. Place three yolks in a clean, dry dish. Mix the remaining yolk with cottage cheese, and send the proteins in a separate bowl.
2. Pour 0.5 cups of sugar to three yolks, add sour cream, flour, baking powder and cow butter. Knead the dough, form a ball out of it and send it to the cold for an hour.
3. Peel the apples, remove the cores, rub on a coarse grater or cut into thin slices.
4. Pour a third of a glass of sugar into the curd mass and stir.
5. Put the dough in the baking dish, flatten and form the sides. Put the curd mass on top, place apples on top of it. Sprinkle with cinnamon and send the mold for half an hour to the oven, heated to 180 ° C.
6. Beat the whites with the rest of the sugar in a strong foam. Put the squirrels on the apples and continue to bake the cake for another 7 minutes.

Cool the amazing cottage cheese pie with apples and serve.

With balls of cottage cheese

We will figure out how to cook an amazing chocolate cake with curd balls. You will need:

• 4 eggs;
• three large spoons of cocoa;
• cottage cheese - 250 g;
• a pinch of salt;
• 110 g of sugar;
• 50 g of dark chocolate;
• two egg yolks;
• 5 tbsp. l starch;
• a pinch of baking powder;
• two tablespoons of flour;
• 60 g vanilla sugar.
  

This is a very beautiful curd pie. Follow these steps step by step:

1. First mix sugar (50 g) with cottage cheese, yolks and starch (3 tbsp. L.). Stir well until you get the same mass and form balls.
2. Then separate the yolks from the proteins. Beat the yolks with vanilla and sugar (30 g) until a smooth light mass. Pour in the melted chocolate.
3. In the chocolate and egg mass, add cocoa, baking powder, salt, sifted flour and starch (2 tbsp.), Stir. Beat protein with sugar (30 g) until stable peaks. Carefully enter into the mixture and mix with a spatula from top to bottom.
4. Cover the baking dish with parchment, put the balls in it. Top with chocolate mass.
5. Bake for forty minutes at 180 ° C. Pour the finished product on top with chocolate icing.

With sand crumbs

We offer you to cook a delicious cottage cheese pie with crumbs of sand. It is good for those who do not like to mess with pastries and dough. In addition, this dessert contains few calories, so it will not be able to harm your figure. So you need to have:

• one egg;
• four tablespoons of sour cream;
• cottage cheese - 400 g;
• cow butter - 200 g;
• 260 g of flour;
• six tablespoons of sugar;
• a pinch of salt;
• 1 tsp baking powder.
  

Cook the curd pie with crumbs of sand as follows:

1. Pour flour into the dishes. Add baking powder, sugar and stir.
2. On a coarse grater, grate cow butter and send to flour. Mix all the ingredients well.
3. Now prepare the filling. To do this, send sugar, cottage cheese, sour cream and one egg to the blender, stir with a spoon. Turn on the blender and whisk the food so that it turns into a curd air mass.
4. Smear the baking dish with cow butter, pour 1/2 part of the cream dough into it, form a solid and even layer from it. Pour the curd mass on top and smooth.
5. Sprinkle the top of the pie with the second part of the dough.
6. Send the billet to the oven, heated to 200 ° C, for half an hour.

You can put the finished dessert on a beautiful tray or serve in portions.

With cherry

Would you like to cook up a wonderful cottage cheese pie with cherries? To create the filling, take:

• two eggs;
• cottage cheese - 600 g;
• 300 g of iced cherry;
• 160 g of sugar;
• a spoonful of flour.

Cook fondant from the following components:

• starch - 1 tsp;
• 100 ml of cherry juice;
• 1 tbsp. l Sahara.

For cake you will need:

• 200 g of cookies
• cow butter - 100 g.

Cook this dessert like this:

1. Melt the butter and mix with crumbled cookies.
2. Cover the mold with parchment, spread with butter and put cookies with butter in it. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
3. Defrost the cherry, drop it into a colander and wait until the cherry juice drains. Beat eggs with sugar and mix with cottage cheese. Pour half the curd mixture onto the cake.
4. Then lay the cherries.
5. Pour out the remaining curd. Bake at 160 ° C for 45 minutes. Turn off the oven, open the door. Let the cake stand for 20 minutes.
6. Now cook up the fondant. If you get a little cherry juice, you can add water and a little starch to it. Warm the juice with sugar until it becomes the same. Then boil and add the starch diluted in water. Boil again. Water the product.

Layered cake

To create this dessert you will need:

• three eggs;
• butter - 50 g;
• 700 g of fine-grained cottage cheese;
• 0.5 tbsp. Sahara;
• vanilla;
• puff pastry - 700 g.
  

This cake is prepared very quickly, since you will use the dough purchased in the store. You only need to get it out of the freezer half an hour before cooking begins. So, follow these steps:

1. Beat eggs with sugar, melted butter and vanilla. Pour the cottage cheese and stir with a fork until the same type.
2. You can also add crushed nuts, raisins or candied fruits here.
3. Roll out thawed dough thinly enough. With a sharp knife, cut lengthwise into three parts.
4. Put the curd filler on each strip evenly. To make a long sausage, pinch the longitudinal edges.
5. Lay in a circle all three sausages.
6. Spread the surface with an egg whipped with a small amount of sugar.
7. Bake at 180 ° C for 40 minutes.

Yeast cake

According to this recipe, even an inexperienced mistress can cook a magic pie. We take:

• milk - 250 g;
• 150 g butter (for dough);
• 600 g of flour;
• 80 g butter (for sprinkling);
• 20 g of fresh yeast or 1 pack of dry;
• vanillin;
• 250 g low-fat cottage cheese;
• one egg;
• 75 g sugar (for dough);
• 175 g of sugar (for sprinkling).

This dessert must be prepared as follows:

1. Send the sifted flour, yeast (if fresh, crumble finely), melted butter, warm milk, egg, cottage cheese and the necessary portion of sugar into a bowl. Knead uncooked dough. When it begins to lag behind the walls, form a ball, cover with a cloth and leave for an hour to come up.
2. Cover the baking sheet with parchment, put the dough in a thick layer, make shallow holes with your fingers on top. Cover with a cloth and leave to stand for 20 minutes.
3. Grate the frozen oil over the dough on a coarse grater, sprinkle with sugar.
4. Bake the cake for one hour or a little more at 200 ° C.

Open pie

To create this original cake with biscuit and air filling, take:

• four eggs;
• vanilla;
• sugar - 120 g;
• a bag of baking powder;
• 120 g of first grade flour.
  

Cook the filler from the following components:

• half a kilo of sweet cottage cheese;
• gelatin - 24 g;
• cream - 400 ml;
• 250 g of any canned fruit;
• sugar - 150 g.

Follow these steps:

1. Beat eggs with sugar, add baking powder, vanillin and flour, stir.
2. Bake a biscuit at 180 ° C for 20 minutes. Remove the product and refrigerate.
3. Dilute gelatin in warm water (50 g), leave to swell for 15 minutes. Then pour in 0.5 tbsp. juice taken from canned food. Warm over low heat so that the gelatin dissolves completely.
4. Whip the cream in a strong foam, pour the cottage cheese and sugar. Then pour the gelatin mixture in a thin stream and beat again.
5. Cover the deep form with cellophane, first place the biscuit, then 1/2 of the cream, large pieces of fruit and cream again. Level the surface thoroughly.
6. Send the cake form to the refrigerator for solidification.

Decorate the finished product with chocolate and fruit and start to have a meal.

Grated pie

This cake is prepared no more difficult than any other, it turns out very light and airy. It may well take the place of a festive cake. You will need:

• half a glass of low-fat sour cream;
• margarine - 100 g;
• baking powder - 2 tsp;
• flour - 2.5 cups;
• 1 cup of sugar.

For the filling, take:

• a glass of kefir;
• 400 g smooth cottage cheese;
• three eggs;
• sugar - 1/2 cup;
• sour cream - 0.5 cups;
• 6 apples
• a little lemon zest;
• crude semolina - 1 tbsp. l .;
• a handful of cinnamon.

Cook this dessert like this:

1. Rub soft margarine and sugar. Add baking powder, sour cream and egg.
2. Stir constantly, pour in small portions of flour.
3. Blind the elastic dough into a ball, wrap in cellophane and send to the cold.
4. Now cook the filling. If the cottage cheese is not very smooth, grind it through a sieve. Add all the ingredients listed, except apples and cinnamon. Stir until the mass is uniform.
5. Divide the dough into two unequal pieces.
6. Cover the mold with baking paper, rub most of the dough evenly.
7. Next, lay the apples, sliced ​​in slices, sprinkle with cinnamon.
8. Place the whole curd mass on top, then apples and cinnamon again.
9. Bake the cake for 45 minutes at 180 ° C. Cool completely before serving.

With apricots

This recipe will appeal to lovers of wet pastries. You will need:

• 100 ml of vegetable oil;
• three eggs;
• 240 g of flour;
• 7 apricots;
• 200 g of sugar;
• 320 g of cottage cheese;
• 15 g of baking powder.
  

Cook this tender dessert as follows:

1. Break the eggs into a bowl, add sugar and beat with a whisk.
2. Pour vegetable oil into the dough.
3. Mash the cottage cheese and send to the egg mixture. Stir again. By the way, it is better to take cottage cheese drier, because if it is too wet, you will have to add more flour.
4. Sift flour with baking powder into the curd mass, stir. This curd dough for apricot pie should turn out to be quite dense.
5. Remove the seeds from the apricots. If the fruits are large, cut each half into two more pieces.
6. Cover the mold with parchment and place the dough in it. Put apricots on top.
7. Bake the cake for about an hour at 180 ° C. Check readiness with a wooden skewer by sticking it into the product.

Sprinkle chilled cake with powdered sugar and serve.

Reviews

What do people say about cheese cakes? Yes, everyone unanimously declares that it is very tasty and healthy! Many complain that no one likes cottage cheese in their family. But as soon as the smell of delicious pastries spreads across the apartment, the home rush to the kitchen. What happens next? Curd dessert instantly disappears from the dish.

Some people argue that nothing can be tastier than a cheese cake. Others eat it daily for breakfast with tea. Still others cook it only in the summer with fresh berries. Try it and you cook up this amazing dessert.