If you want something sweet and don’t know what you can cook from simple products in your refrigerator, this article will help you learn new interesting recipes. Almost every housewife always has the ingredients for these dishes. You don’t even have to go to the store to buy something. So, let's find out today what to cook from sour cream and cottage cheese. But first, find out why each named product is so useful and why we want to cook something using just them.
Curd and its benefits
Cottage cheese is a sour-milk traditional Russian product. Prepared from milk: it is fermented, and then the whey is removed. There is the following classification of cottage cheese fat:
- Bold - 18%.
- Bold - 9%.
- Low fat - less than 8%
- Low fat - less than 1-2%.
The calorie content of the product also depends on the fat content. For example, in fatty cottage cheese in 100 g contains 230 kcal. In bold - 160 kcal, in non-fat - about 90 kcal.
So, what is the use of cottage cheese?
- It has an insanely large amount of protein, so it is recommended to use it for both children and athletes who are determined to gain muscle mass. Moreover, these proteins are easily absorbed.
- This product does not contain lactose, which many people don’t like so much in milk or even can’t tolerate in principle.
- Usually it has a small calorie content. It all depends on the fat content of the cottage cheese. But even if you eat 100 grams of this product, you will not get better. Therefore, people who want to lose weight are so fond of him.
- Iron, which is part of the curd, allows you to stabilize the level of hemoglobin in the blood.
- Phosphorus and calcium, which are part of the cottage cheese, contribute to the strengthening of bone tissue, connective as well as heart muscle.
- Amino acids can protect the liver from obesity, prevent diseases of the gallbladder, and also have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the nervous system.
Of course, there are much fewer useful substances in purchased cottage cheese than in farm or home-made. Make sure that it is still natural cottage cheese without any additives and impurities, which in no way will contribute to improving the condition of your body.
Remember that any cottage cheese can be stored only three days after opening the package!
Sour cream and its benefits
Sour cream is a fermented milk product. It is obtained as follows: the top layer was removed from cream or sour milk with high fat content after a long settling. According to GOST, nothing should be included in the composition of natural sour cream except sourdough and cream.
In stores, they usually sell sour cream with a fat content of 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%. A fatter product is almost impossible to find.
What is the benefit of sour cream for our body?
- It is absorbed much better than cream or milk. Therefore, it is recommended to use this product for people suffering from stomach diseases or poor digestion.
- For children, sour cream is one of the important products. It contains a lot of calcium, which is the building block for teeth, bones, and the skeleton as a whole.
- The product normalizes metabolic processes in the body.
- Improves the condition of the skin, making its epidermis resistant to various environmental conditions and more elastic. That is why, if you lay in the sun for a long time, your mother made smear the skin with sour cream. It has moisturizing and nourishing effects.
- There is also an opinion that it helps to get rid of bad mood and prolonged depression: you just need to mix sour cream with honey, sugar, raisins, dried apricots or prunes.
- Sour cream is very important for men: it has a positive effect on potency.
Also give preference to more natural products. Learn the composition and do not be lazy to read the labels on the package. Then your body will be saturated with all the beneficial properties of sour cream.
What can be cooked from cottage cheese and sour cream?
Now let's go directly to the recipes themselves. So what to cook from cottage cheese with sour cream? Cheesecakes, dumplings, mannica, casseroles are made from cottage cheese. It is combined with many products, which is its plus. You can even just mix the cottage cheese with berries, candied fruit, pour it with milk or sprinkle with sugar. You can also find curd products in the store: glazed curds, curd cheese, pasta and pulp with raisins, dried apricots, cherries or chocolate. We also do not forget about the cottage cheese cake, which is prepared by almost every believing family every year on a bright Christian holiday.
And if you have cottage cheese, sour cream and sugar, what to cook? These are classic cream ingredients for a variety of pastries. Therefore, we will consider these them as part of the cakes.
Various salads are seasoned with sour cream so that they are not fat, they are put in soups and served with dumplings, pancakes, cottage cheese pancakes and pancakes. Very popular in Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian cuisines.
You bought cottage cheese and sour cream, what to cook? Baking, of course! Therefore, today we will consider more specifically recipes that are prepared through baking.
And what to cook from cottage cheese, sour cream, eggs, flour and sugar? These ingredients resemble the classic recipes of various curd cakes.
Lush cheesecakes with sour cream
What to cook from cottage cheese and sour cream quickly? Of course, let's start with the cheesecakes.
Ingredients:
- 2 packs of cottage cheese with a fat content of 9%;
- 2 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 1 chicken egg;
- a handful of raisins;
- 3-4 tbsp. l wheat flour;
- vegetable oil;
- 4 tbsp. l sour cream.
We start to cook our cheese pancakes:
- Take the cottage cheese out of the package. Put in a bowl in which we will cook.
- Break one egg into the curd. Add sugar and mix everything with a spoon or whisk.
- While we are doing this, it is necessary to steam out our raisins. If you chose a dark one, then it is better to cut it in half, as it is usually large in size. We wash raisins several times under running water and pour boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse the raisins again.
- Sift the flour through a sieve, add to our dough and stir until the dough becomes homogeneous. Add raisins.
- Pour a small amount of flour on a large plate or cutting board, in it we will roll each cheesecake formed with a spoon and hands before frying.
- Fry on both sides in vegetable oil for about a minute or more until golden brown.
- Serve with sour cream hot.
You will spend about thirty minutes cooking. The dough is prepared in just ten. Therefore, you can make them both in the evening and in the morning immediately before breakfast. You don’t even have time to get very hungry while cooking!
Curd cream cake (without baking) with berries
What to cook from cottage cheese, sour cream, flour and eggs? Of course a cake! And ours does not provide for baking. You can take absolutely any berries. It all depends on what taste notes you want to feel when tasting this masterpiece.
Ingredients:
- 3 packs of cottage cheese (9%);
- 150 g sour cream;
- 30 g of gelatin;
- 250 grams of sugar;
- 600 grams of any berries;
- three packs of cookies "Jubilee";
- butter packaging;
- 100 ml of boiled water.
Cooking method:
- Instant gelatin we fill in with boiled water and leave for half an hour.
- In a blender, beat all our cookies into crumbs. Melt the butter and add to the blender to get a homogeneous mass. This will be our cake for cake.
- To the cottage cheese in a bowl add sugar, sour cream and mix.
- We wipe about a hundred grams of berries through a sieve to make juice. Bring it to a boil and fill them with gelatin. Now mix the mass very carefully so that the gelatin dissolves completely.
- When the gelatin with berry juice has completely cooled, we pour it into our curd mass. Beat with a hand blender.
- In our form (and it is better to use a confectionery ring) we lay out the basis of the cake - cake from cookies. Smooth it to be even. Spread the berries.
- Pour the berries with half the curd mixture. Set to cool for 20 minutes in the refrigerator. When the cake hardens, we pour the second half of our cheese-sour cream dough and lay the berries on top again.
- Put the cake back in the refrigerator until it completely hardens, for about an hour.

By the way, to make the cake more tasty, you can take different variations of cookies: "Baked milk", strawberry, coffee, with pieces of chocolate, lemon.
Berry curd dessert in glasses
If the street is very hot, what can be cooked from cottage cheese and sour cream? We offer you a dessert that will be a real salvation in the summer heat. After all, it is light, airy and incredibly tasty! Let's learn the recipe:
Ingredients:
- 2 packs of cottage cheese (5%);
- a packet of cookies;
- 2 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 2 tbsp. l sour cream;
- 150 grams of raspberries;
- any jam.
Cooking dessert:
- Put the cottage cheese in a container. Add sugar, sour cream and mix with a fork or blender.
- We take wide, low, transparent glasses. We crumble cookies to the bottom. We put 2 tablespoons of cottage cheese.
- Put raspberries on top.
- We break the cookies again with our hands.
- We spread the cottage cheese, which we have left.
- Grind some raspberries with sugar (or use jam) and put in the next layer.
- Crumble the cookies again.
- Again, put a few raspberries on top and decorate as desired. You can use mint.
You can use absolutely any berries as you wish. The taste will remain as expressive, juicy and pleasant, but only if you take summer natural berries, and not frozen from a pack.
Strudel with apples and cottage cheese
We continue to learn what to cook from sour cream and cottage cheese. Did you know that apple strudel can be made not only by baking? Yes, you can use regular thin pita bread, which can be found in every grocery store.
Ingredients:
- 1 pack of pita bread;
- 2 apples
- 150 grams of cottage cheese;
- 2 tbsp sour cream;
- 60 grams of butter;
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 1/2 lemon
- powdered sugar.
Cooking dessert:
- Rinse apples thoroughly under water. We clean and grate. Sprinkle with the juice of half a lemon so that the fruit does not darken.
- In the same half of the lemon, we have three peels to get the zest.
- We put butter, grated apples, lemon zest in a pan. Sprinkle it all with cinnamon and add sugar.
- Now we have to put out all this for about ten minutes, constantly mixing.
- To our mass we add cottage cheese and sour cream, mix again.
- We take pita bread and unfold it. On the sheet we distribute the filling. Sprinkle with cinnamon again.
- Turn the pita bread stuffed into a roll.
- Now we fry our roll on both sides in a pan until a brown crust appears.
- Cool the roll a bit and cut in portions. You can sprinkle with powdered sugar.
As you can see, this is a simplified recipe for a classic apple strudel. There is not always time and desire to tinker with the test, and it is at these moments that pita will help us out.
Curd casserole with starch
What to cook from cottage cheese, sour cream and eggs? The first thing that comes to the mind of an experienced hostess is cheesecakes or cottage cheese casserole. But since we have already studied the syrniki recipe, let's now consider the second option.
Ingredients:
- 2 packs of cottage cheese;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 2 tbsp. l corn starch;
- 60 grams of butter;
- 3-4 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 100 ml sour cream;
- a handful of raisins;
- 2 tbsp. l condensed milk.
Cooking:
- Break the eggs into a bowl and beat with sugar. Add a little starch and mix.
- Rinse the raisins in water and pour boiling water to steam it.
- Melt the butter and cool a little. Pour it into our mixture.
- Add the cottage cheese and start kneading the mass, like a dough. It should turn out homogeneous and without lumps.
- Add raisins to the curd mass, drain the excess liquid and rinse again with water.
- Pour the curd into the baking dish. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for about forty minutes.
- If you want to cook a casserole in a slow cooker, first grease the bottom with oil. Then pour the curd mass and cook for about an hour in the "Baking" mode.
The casserole is tender and airy. It tastes a bit like cheesecake. In 100 grams of the product, only about 237 kcal. Enjoy it!
Pancakes with cottage cheese under sour cream
Surprised by the name? This is insanely delicious! Let's find out how to cook this dish.
Ingredients:
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 400 ml of water;
- 400 ml of milk;
- 300 grams of flour;
- 3 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
- 1 tsp salts;
- 150 grams of sour cream;
- 7 tbsp. l Sahara;
- a pack of cottage cheese;
Cooking method:
- Break eggs into a container. We add sugar, water, salt, vegetable oil to them and mix everything until smooth.
- Add the flour (it is better to sift it). Again, we interfere until smooth.
- Add milk gradually, while stirring with a fork, spoon or whisk.
- We bake pancakes in a pan with vegetable oil. Each minute we fry on each side. Put the pancakes in a stack on a plate, greasing each with butter.
- Break the egg into a bowl. Add cottage cheese and sugar. Mix. This is the filling for our pancakes.
- We fill the pancakes with filling and roll up the roll.
- Put pancakes with filling in a baking dish.
- Mix sour cream with sugar until smooth. Brush the pancakes with this mixture.
- Bake in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees for about twenty minutes.
Now you know what to cook from sour cream, cottage cheese, eggs, sugar and flour. Surprise your loved ones and guests with this wonderful dish. Regulate the amount of sugar in the recipe and change it to your taste.
Strawberry Muffins
So, you have cottage cheese, sour cream, flour and sugar. What to cook? If you are a lover of homemade pastries and are not against sweets, then you must at least once in your life try to make your own cupcakes. We suggest you cook them according to the following recipe:
Ingredients:
- 250 grams of cottage cheese;
- 120 grams of butter;
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 200 grams of sugar;
- 250 grams of flour;
- 0.5 tsp soda;
- 150 grams of strawberries.
Cook together:
- Break the eggs into a bowl and add sugar. Mix with a whisk.
- Melt the butter in the microwave and add to the bowl. Beat the mixture.
- Now add the cottage cheese. Pour further sifted flour and soda. Stir everything thoroughly to make a thick dough.
- We spread 2 tablespoons in each muffin tin.
- We put one strawberry there.
- Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 20 minutes.
You will fall in love with these curd muffins with a very delicate and velvety texture literally from the first bite. By the way, if you want to make dark pastries, add cocoa to the dough. Now you know exactly what to cook from sour cream, cottage cheese and flour.
Conclusion
We hope that now you are not tormented by the question "What to cook from sour cream and cottage cheese?". After all, we sorted out a few simple recipes with very affordable ingredients. Good luck in cooking and bon appetit!