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The importance of cottage cheese dishes in nutrition is extremely high, since cottage cheese contains up to 16.5% protein, up to 18% fat, a large amount of calcium (140%), vitamins A and E, group B, etc.
The high concentration of milk proteins and fat in cottage cheese, the presence of essential amino acids, calcium and phosphorus salts - all this makes it a product necessary for the normal development of the human body.
Due to the medicinal properties of the proteins contained in cottage cheese, as well as due to the high content of minerals, cottage cheese dishes are especially recommended for use in baby food, for teenagers and in dietary nutrition.
Full-fat cottage cheese with a fat content of up to 20%, semi-fat cottage cheese containing 9–10% fat, and low-fat cottage cheese are produced. Full-fat cottage cheese is usually used to serve in its natural form or to prepare curd mass. Low-fat cottage cheese is used to prepare cheesecakes, casseroles, pudding, dumplings, and minced cottage cheese. You can add butter to cottage cheese dishes.
Before preparing dishes, the cottage cheese is examined, rubbed through a sieve (in a small amount) or passed through a rubbing machine. Losses amount to 2% of its mass.
If the cottage cheese contains a lot of moisture, then it is wrapped in a clean, thick cloth and pressed. To improve the aroma, you can add grated zest and vanillin to the cottage cheese. All curd dishes are divided into cold and hot. To prepare cold dishes, you can only use cottage cheese made from pasteurized milk.
Based on the type of heat treatment, cottage cheese dishes are divided into boiled, fried and baked.
Chicken casserole
Unsweetened cottage cheese dishes can be prepared with chicken.
Unsweetened cottage cheese dishes - a recipe for making chicken casserole.
Cooking time will be 40 minutes.
Composition of ingredients
To prepare chicken casserole, you need to take the following ingredients:
- 300 g chicken fillet;
- 150 g cottage cheese;
- 50 g onions;
- 100 g hard cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 150 g broccoli;
- 10 g dry spices;
- 5 g sesame;
- 10 g pumpkin seeds.
Step-by-step cooking process
Step-by-step cooking instructions:
- First, rinse the fillet in cold water, dry it with a dry towel, cut it into small pieces, put them in a blender bowl and grind.
- Then you need to add cottage cheese to the chopped fillet, break the eggs, add dry spices and mix everything. Afterwards, you need to remove the skins from the onions, wash them and chop them using a kitchen knife.
- Next, you need to put the chopped onion into the mixture, mix thoroughly, fill a silicone mold with half of the prepared mixture, and make a hole in it.
- Then you need to wash the broccoli, divide it into florets, put the broccoli in a hole, grate the cheese on a large grater, sprinkle it over the filling, pour in the other half of the mixture, sprinkle with sesame seeds and pumpkin seeds.
- Now you can preheat the oven to a temperature of 200°C, place the workpiece in it and bake for 30 minutes. until a golden coating appears.
§ 3. Frozen semi-finished cottage cheese dishes
The mechanization of the processes for producing semi-finished products “dumplings with cottage cheese” and “lazy dumplings” made it possible to more widely use these valuable dishes in the menu of public catering establishments.
Frozen dumplings with cottage cheese “Moskovskie” are available in two types – sweet and salty. To prepare them, use fatty cottage cheese with an acidity of no higher than 210 °T, premium wheat flour, sugar, salt, eggs or melange, and water.
Preparation of dumplings consists of preparing raw materials, processing them, molding semi-finished products, freezing, packaging, packaging, labeling, and storage. The kneaded dough for dumplings should have a temperature of 26–28 °C. It is aged for 40 minutes. Dumplings are formed on dumpling machines. Molded dumplings are frozen at temperatures down to –18 °C no later than 15–20 minutes from the moment of production. The mass of minced meat should be 50% of the mass of dumplings.
After freezing, the dumplings are packaged in cardboard boxes, bags and plastic films, which are then placed in boxes or packs. Store frozen dumplings with cottage cheese at a temperature no higher than –10 °C for up to 15 days.
For the production of frozen lazy dumplings, an automatic machine with a capacity of 300–400 kg/h is used.
Molded cylindrical lazy dumplings on wooden sheets are frozen for 30 minutes at a temperature of –25 °C and then packaged into boxes. At catering establishments, frozen dumplings are stored for no more than 3 days at a temperature of –10 °C.
Stuffed eggplant with mozzarella cheese and cottage cheese
In this recipe it is better to use low-fat or low-fat cottage cheese.
Preparation next.
Composition of ingredients
To prepare 2 servings of the dish you need to take the following set of ingredients:
- 1 large eggplant;
- 70 g cottage cheese;
- 70 g hard cheese;
- 70 g mozzarella;
- 50 g bread;
- 1 egg;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 100 ml milk;
- 5 g basil;
- 1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper;
- 1/4 tsp. table salt.
Step-by-step cooking process
Step-by-step cooking process:
- First you can prepare the filling. To do this, cut the bread into small pieces, pour the milk into a bowl and soak the bread. When it swells, you will need to squeeze out the excess milk and transfer the bread to another bowl, tearing it into small pieces with your hands.
- Next, you can add cottage cheese to the bread. Hard cheese along with mozzarella must be grated through a coarse grater and added to a bowl. Basil should be finely chopped with a knife and also poured into a bowl. You will also need to break an egg into all the ingredients, add table salt and pepper and mix the ingredients well until a single mass is obtained.
- Then you need to prepare the eggplant. To do this, cut it into 2 halves, place it in a wide pan, add water and put it on the stove. When the water boils, cook the eggplant until soft for about 8 - 10 minutes, then drain in a colander and get rid of excess water.
- The pulp of the boiled eggplant should be carefully removed with a spoon, finely chopped and added to the filling.
- Now each half of the eggplant should be filled with cheese filling and placed on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. The oven can be heated to 180 °C, place a baking tray inside and bake for at least 20 - 25 minutes. until a small crust forms.
Ready-made eggplants with cheese and cottage cheese should be served as a snack only hot.
Cereal zrazy with cottage cheese.
To prepare you will need:
200 g buckwheat, 250 g low-fat cottage cheese, 2 glasses of milk, 2 eggs, 2 tbsp. spoons of sugar, 40 g butter, 1 cup sour cream, salt.
Cooking method:
Place cottage cheese in a bowl, add 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of sugar and grind everything well. If the mass turns out to be very dry, add a little sour cream to it. Pour the milk into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then add oil to it, add buckwheat and cook at low boil until tender. Cool the finished porridge slightly, add the egg, sugar and mix well. Make flat cakes from the resulting mass, place the curd mass in the middle, pinch them together, giving them the shape of a pie.
Pour some water into the pan and bring it to a boil. Place a metal colander on top of the pan. It is advisable that it occupies the entire surface of the pan. Place the zrazy in a colander and steam under the lid until tender. Before serving, pour the finished zrazy with sour cream.
Bell pepper with cottage cheese and bacon
Instead of bacon, use lean pork.
Preparation next.
Composition of ingredients
To prepare 2 servings of peppers with bacon and cottage cheese, you need the following ingredients:
- 1 bell pepper;
- 120 g cottage cheese;
- 4 strips of bacon;
- 1 tbsp. l. sour cream;
- 1/4 tsp. table salt;
- 1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper;
- 1/2 tsp. Provençal herbs;
- 1 tbsp. l. sunflower oil.
Step-by-step cooking process
Step-by-step description of preparation:
- The first step is to prepare the pepper. To do this, wash it in cool water, cut it into 4 equal parts and remove the partition with the seeds using a spoon. Now you need to grease a baking sheet with sunflower oil, place the pepper parts on it, cut sides up, and place in the oven, heated to 180 °C, for about 6 - 7 minutes.
- While the peppers are baking, you can prepare the filling. To do this, place cottage cheese in a bowl, pour in sour cream, add table salt and pepper, Provençal herbs and mix the ingredients thoroughly until smooth.
- Now you can remove the peppers from the oven, fill them with the prepared filling, wrap each piece with a strip of bacon and return it back to the oven for another 10 minutes.
Before serving, peppers can be sprinkled with green onion rings or chopped dill.
Cottage cheese casserole with olives
Olives combined with Italian herbs in this recipe will give the casserole a piquant flavor.
Preparation next.
Composition of ingredients
To prepare cottage cheese casserole with olives you need to prepare:
- 220 g cottage cheese;
- 1 egg;
- 50 g cheese;
- 40 g pitted olives;
- 1 tsp. Italian herbs;
- 1/4 tsp. table salt;
- 1/4 tsp. chopped pepper;
- 2 tsp. sunflower oil;
- 1 tbsp. l. semolina.
Step-by-step cooking process
Detailed description of the cooking process:
- First you need to put the cottage cheese in the blender bowl. The cheese can be grated with fine holes and added to the cottage cheese. Break an egg into a bowl and remove the yolk using a plastic bottle. The protein must be poured into a bowl, pour in half of the Italian herbs, table salt and ground pepper.
- Next, mix the components until a single mass is formed. Then you need to prepare a rectangular baking dish with high sides. It needs to be greased with sunflower oil and sprinkled with semolina on the bottom and walls.
- Now you can pour the prepared mass into the mold, level its surface with a kitchen spatula and place the olives cut into 2 parts on top. You should also sprinkle the workpiece with the remaining Italian herbs.
- Afterwards, you need to preheat the oven to 180 °C, place the mold inside and bake for at least 20 - 25 minutes. until a golden coating forms.
What to cook from grain cottage cheese
Recipe 3. Cheesecake with raspberries
You will need: 1 cup of flour, a quarter cup of sour cream, a pinch of salt, half a stick of butter. For the filling: half a glass of sour cream, 5 yolks (or 3 eggs), 550 g of cottage cheese, half a glass of sugar, 3 tablespoons of semolina, a pinch of vanilla sugar.
Using knives, chop the butter and flour, add sour cream, salt and grind all the ingredients into fine crumbs. Grease the mold with butter, spread the crumbs over the bottom and make sides, compacting it well. Beat the yolks with vanilla and regular sugar, add semolina, pour in sour cream and mix well. Add cottage cheese last. Spread the filling over the crumb topping and decorate the top of the pie with raspberries. The cheesecake bakes in 40-45 minutes. The crust for this dessert can be made from butter cookies or crackers: the cookies need to be crushed and rubbed with butter. Cream, sour cream, candied fruits, cinnamon, poppy seeds, and chocolate are also added to the cheesecake filling. Raspberries can be replaced with strawberries, kiwi, canned peaches or pineapples.
Recipe 4. Cheesecakes in the oven
You will need: 500 g of cottage cheese, a handful of pitted cherries, 3 tablespoons of semolina, 2 eggs, a pinch of vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt, 10 g of baking powder, 30 ml of vegetable oil, a quarter cup of powdered sugar.
Mash the cottage cheese, add the eggs and mix well. Add semolina, sugar, vanilla, salt and mix everything well. Wait 10 minutes for the dough to swell a little and add berries to it. Cherries in this recipe can be replaced with prunes, dried apricots, banana pieces, red currants, blueberries and any other berries. Grease muffin tins, if they are not silicone, and using a spoon dipped in water, fill them about halfway with dough. If you don't have molds, you can place the cheesecakes on a greased baking sheet. Bake the cheesecakes for about 30 minutes until golden brown, and serve with jam, sour cream or condensed milk. If desired, you can dust the dessert with powdered sugar. This method of preparing cheesecakes saves time and makes this dessert more healthy: baking is still better than frying, and the cheesecakes turn out fluffy, airy, and aromatic.
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Recipe 5. Squid stuffed with cottage cheese
You will need: 540 g of cottage cheese, 3 squid carcasses, 40 ml of sour cream, 180 g of peeled boiled shrimp, 3 tarragon leaves, 1 bunch of dill, 1 teaspoon each of ground paprika and a mixture of peppers, 3 cloves of garlic.
Wash the greens and dry on a towel. For the filling, chop the herbs and garlic, cut the shrimp into circles. Combine cottage cheese with garlic, spices and sour cream, mix thoroughly. Then add greens and shrimp to the curd mixture. The carcasses need to be cleared of the top film, the chitinous plates inside removed and washed well. Boil squid in salted water for 4 minutes. Place the finished carcasses in a colander, rinse with cold water, and when the squids have cooled, stuff them tightly with the prepared filling and place in the refrigerator. Before serving, cut the squid into 1 cm wide circles.
Recipe 6. Curd roll with peppers
You will need: 900 g of thick cottage cheese, 100 g of pitted olives, 3 cloves of garlic, 40 g of sour cream, 4 sweet peppers of different colors, 4 zucchini (or zucchini), 30 ml of vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon of ground cumin, 1 bunch of dill, pepper , salt.
Cut the zucchini with the skin lengthwise into 0.5 cm thick slices. Then, in portions, place them in boiling salted water for a minute. Remove the core from the peppers and cut them into thin longitudinal strips. Chop the garlic. Heat a little oil in a saucepan, add pepper strips, garlic, season with salt, pepper, cumin and let simmer over low heat for 5 minutes. Cut the olives into thin slices. Chop the dill. Mix cottage cheese with sour cream, olives and dill. If necessary, add a little salt. Divide the curd mass into three parts. Place half of the zucchini in a rectangular mold: they should completely cover the bottom of the side and slightly overlap each other. Place one part of the cottage cheese on them, level them, place half of the peppers on top, then place the second part of the curd mass and the remaining peppers on them. The last layer is the remaining cottage cheese. Cover the roll with zucchini strips and refrigerate overnight. The next day, turn the pan over onto a plate and cut the snack into pieces with a very sharp knife.
What to cook from cottage cheese for breakfast
Recipe 7. Curd casserole
You will need: 550 g of cottage cheese, 2 tablespoons of semolina, 3 tablespoons of sugar, 90 ml of sour cream, 1 coffee spoon of vanilla sugar, 2 eggs, 60 g of raisins, a pinch of salt, a piece of butter for greasing the mold and a handful of semolina for sprinkling.
Mix semolina with half the sour cream and leave to swell (for half an hour, but longer). Rinse the raisins and pour boiling water for 15 minutes. You can grind the cottage cheese with a blender, but it’s better to pass it through a sieve - the casserole will be more airy. Add sugar, vanilla, swollen semolina, beaten eggs, a pinch of salt to the cottage cheese and mix well. Dry the raisins on a towel and add to the curd mixture. Grease a baking dish with a piece of butter, sprinkle with semolina, lay out the curd mass, carefully level and grease the surface with the remaining sour cream. The dessert is baked for about 40 minutes. Raisins can be replaced with dried apricots, dried cherries, and prunes. If desired, you can give the cottage cheese casserole a light lemon note: squeeze a little lemon juice into the cottage cheese or add a coffee spoon of lemon zest. Before serving, top the dessert with berry sauce, honey or sour cream.
Recipe 8. The best cottage cheese recipe for breakfast - creamy dessert with berries
You will need: 400 g of homemade cottage cheese, 300 g of your favorite berries, 100 g of homemade sour cream, 200 g of raspberries, 90 g of honey, 90 g of brown sugar, juice of one lemon, 40 g of chopped nuts, 100 ml of water.
Dissolve honey in lemon juice. Cover the molds with cling film. Combine cottage cheese, sour cream and lemon syrup. Mix everything well, pour the curd mixture into molds and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Meanwhile, mix raspberries with water and sugar in a saucepan, put on fire, boil for 1 minute, cool and rub through a sieve. Pour the prepared syrup over the berries. Remove the curd mass from the molds, place on serving plates and decorate with nut crumbs. Serve with berry sauce. The combination of delicate creamy cottage cheese and crunchy nuts, sweet honey and tart sweet and sour berries makes this dish not only very tasty, but also extremely healthy.
What can you quickly cook from cottage cheese?
Recipe 9. Curd rolls with dried fruits
You will need: 400 g of cottage cheese, 2 tablespoons of coconut and powdered sugar, 7 prunes and dried apricots.
Mix cottage cheese with powdered sugar. Cut dried fruits into strips. Cover the work surface with cling film, sprinkle with coconut flakes, and place the curd mixture on top and smooth it with a spoon. First put prunes on the cottage cheese, and then dried apricots. Form a roll, and when it has stood in the refrigerator for an hour or two, cut into portions. Before serving, decorate the curd rolls with confiture, melted chocolate or apricot jam.
Unobtrusive sweetness, pleasant, slightly noticeable sourness, delicate, airy structure - this ensemble makes curd desserts very tasty and popular. Cottage cheese is an excellent choice for breakfast. You can use it to prepare wonderful dishes for family dinners and holiday meals - tasty, healthy and original. Eat cottage cheese for your health. Enjoy your meal!
Alesya Musiyuk for the site “f-Journal.Ru”
Curd balls.
To prepare you will need:
2 egg yolks, 500 g cottage cheese, 2 tbsp. spoons of flour, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of potato starch, salt, a pinch of vanillin or cinnamon.
Cooking method:
Mix cottage cheese, yolks, flour, salt, spices into a homogeneous mass. Place on a board sprinkled with flour, shape into a sausage, cut into small pieces, roll in flour and roll into balls. Place the balls in salted boiling water and cook over low heat in batches, as they should float freely without sticking to each other. When the balls float to the surface, remove them with a slotted spoon, place in serving bowls, pour over sour cream and sprinkle with cinnamon. If the cottage cheese is very liquid, the amount of flour should be increased.
Curd buns with cheese and sun-dried tomatoes
Unsweetened cottage cheese dishes can be prepared in the form of buns.
Preparation next.
Composition of ingredients
To prepare 2 servings of cottage cheese buns with sun-dried tomatoes and cheese, you should prepare:
- 125 g granular cottage cheese;
- 100 g sour cream;
- 150 g flour;
- 1 tsp. baking powder;
- 75 g cheese;
- 60 g butter;
- 15 g sun-dried tomatoes;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 7 g basil;
- 1/4 tsp. table salt.
Step-by-step cooking process
Step-by-step cooking process:
- First you need to melt a piece of butter using a microwave oven or a water bath. While the oil is heating, you can finely chop the basil and peel the garlic. Pour the basil into the melted butter, press the garlic through a press and add to the bowl.
- Then you need to chop the sun-dried tomatoes very finely, add them to the oil mixture, add table salt and mix the ingredients thoroughly.
- Next, add cottage cheese to a clean bowl, pour in sour cream and mix the ingredients. In a separate container you will need to sift the flour through a sieve, add baking powder, a little table salt and mix the ingredients. The curd mixture can be added to the dry ingredients and kneaded into a dough.
- Now you need to sprinkle the table with flour, lay out the finished dough and roll it out into a rectangle using a rolling pin. The thickness of the dough should not exceed 5 mm. The oil mixture should be evenly distributed over the surface of the workpiece.
- Afterwards you will need to grate the cheese on a fine grater and spread it evenly over the surface of the workpiece. Now you can wrap the workpiece in a tight roll and cut it into 6 equal parts.
- Then you can place the blanks in muffin tins and place them in the oven, heated to 180 °C. Bake the buns for about 25 minutes, then cool at room temperature and serve.
Homemade cheese dumplings.
To prepare you will need:
150 g cheese, 150 g semolina, 45 g butter (or 100 g sour cream), 2 eggs, 300 ml milk.
Cooking method:
Boil the milk, stirring continuously, add semolina and cook until thickened. Then remove from heat and cool. Add homemade cheese, eggs, one third of the butter. Form dumplings from this mixture, pour in melted butter and serve.
Curd dumplings with sour cream.
To prepare you will need:
500 g cottage cheese, 1/3 cup flour, 6 eggs, 40 g butter, 1/2 cup sour cream, salt.
Cooking method:
Rub the cottage cheese, sift the flour, beat the eggs. Knead the dough from the grated cottage cheese, part of the flour and eggs, knead it well, gradually adding the rest of the flour and eggs, roll into a sausage and cut into pieces.
Place the dumplings in boiling salted water and cook until done. Place the boiled dumplings in a colander, pour over boiling water, and place on a plate with melted butter. When serving, pour over sour cream.
Lazy dumplings with honey.
To prepare you will need:
500 g cottage cheese, 3 tbsp. spoons of semolina, 1-2 eggs, 4 tbsp. spoons of breadcrumbs, 2 tbsp. spoons of butter, honey, salt.
Cooking method:
Cottage cheese, mashed with a fork or rubbed through a sieve, mix with semolina and eggs, add salt. Roll the mixture into balls and cook them in salted boiling water. Remove with a slotted spoon, drain, roll in toasted breadcrumbs. Place the dumplings on a plate and place in the oven for a few minutes. Serve with honey or sour cream.
Chicken roll with cottage cheese and herbs
Cottage cheese will give the roll a delicate flavor.
Preparation next.
Composition of ingredients
To prepare chicken roll with cottage cheese and herbs, you will need the following ingredients:
- 500 g chicken fillet;
- 200 g cottage cheese;
- 200 g sour cream;
- 50 g cheese;
- 10 g parsley;
- 5 green onions;
- 1/2 tsp. table salt;
- 1/2 tsp. freshly ground pepper.
Step-by-step cooking process
Step-by-step cooking process:
- The first step is to rinse the chicken fillet in cool water and trim off any visible fat. Now the pieces of meat need to be cut into several pieces lengthwise and laid out on a cutting board. The meat must be covered with plastic wrap and beaten using a special hammer. Also fillet should be sprinkled with half the salt and ground pepper.
- Next, you can prepare the filling. You can put the cottage cheese in a bowl, pour in 2 tbsp. l. sour cream and add the remaining salt and ground pepper. The parsley should be finely chopped and the green onions cut into rings.
- Add all the greens to the curd mass and mix the ingredients thoroughly until a single mass is obtained.
- Now the chopped pieces of chicken should be laid out on the table so that their edges touch each other. You will need to place the filling in an even layer in the center of the meat and wrap the workpiece into a tight roll.
- Then the roll needs to be wrapped in food foil, placed in a baking dish and sent to the oven, heated to 200 °C. The roll needs to be baked for about 50 - 60 minutes, then remove it from the oven, unfold the foil on top, pour over the remaining sour cream and sprinkle with finely grated cheese.
- Next, the roll can be returned to the oven and baked for about 10 minutes. until a cheese crust forms.
Before serving, you can sprinkle the finished roll with chopped parsley. The cottage cheese should have a creamy shade close to white. Yellow color indicates a low-quality product. It is recommended to add fish, avocado, and nuts to savory dishes.