The usefulness of cottage cheese inspires us to prepare many dishes from this product. The most favorite cottage cheese dish in our family is cheesecakes. Cheese pancakes with red currants will diversify the menu and sparkle with new colors and flavor notes. Be sure to try cooking this dish. This recipe of mine with a photo will help you, which will tell you and show you how to make cottage cheese pancakes step by step.
In order to prepare a delicious curd dessert with red currants, we need:
cottage cheese - 300 gr;
egg - 1 pc.;
sugar - 2-3 tbsp. l.;
wheat flour - 2 tbsp. l.;
vegetable oil - 2-3 tbsp. l. (for frying);
vanilla sugar - 7 g;
red currants - 50 gr. (fresh or frozen).
How to make cheesecakes with red currants
Pour cottage cheese into a convenient container and add an egg.
Add granulated sugar and vanilla sugar.
Add wheat flour and mix until smooth or beat with a blender.
Add red currants. Frozen berries will also work, because in cheesecakes the difference will not be noticeable at all.
Mix the curd mass with the berries. Form small balls and flatten. Place them in a heated frying pan with vegetable oil.
Fry the curd cakes for a couple of minutes on each side, until golden crust. Place the fried cheesecakes on a paper towel to remove excess oil.
Serve ready-made, unusually tasty cheesecakes with sour cream or yogurt, garnished with red currants.
In the end, I’ll just note that such cheesecakes turn out fluffy, juicy, moist and incredibly tasty. Red berries, in addition to a pleasant color variety, add a pleasant sourness.
Bon appetit!!!
How to cook delicious cheesecakes with berries in the oven
Cheesecakes with berries – unusually light and delicious dessert, which can please both children and adults. The tender and fluffy curd mass with a sweetish taste is ideally complemented by aromatic sweet and sour berries. This fairly simple dish will be a wonderful option for breakfast or tea with friends. Cheese pancakes are easy to prepare from both frozen and fresh berries. Curd dessert you can fry it in a frying pan, or you can bake it in the oven - it will turn out more dietary option dishes that can be given even to children. In addition, cheesecakes in the oven always turn out perfect in shape and do not fall apart, so this recipe will appeal to housewives who are unable to prepare beautiful ones. curd cheesecakes in a frying pan. The dish can be decorated with sugar powdered sugar or sprinkle with grated chocolate and serve with a scoop of ice cream or sweet sour cream and berry sauce. To prepare this type of cheesecake, you take several varieties of currants, but you can also take raspberries or strawberries. Cottage cheese pancakes with berries are the perfect summer dessert, the recipe with photos is very simple and affordable, so let's cook!
Number of servings: 2.
Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
- 200 g cottage cheese;
- 1 large egg;
- 1.5 tbsp. Sahara;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 2-3 tbsp. flour;
- 100 g assorted currants;
- 0.5 tsp lemon (orange) zest;
- 0.5 tsp baking powder.
Cheesecakes with berries, recipe with photo
1. The most main secret dessert lies in the choice good cottage cheese. The most delicious cottage cheese pancakes with berries are made from homemade cottage cheese: tender, slightly moist, preferably fatty. If you take a pinch of cottage cheese, it should rub easily between your fingers.
If you can't buy a quality one homemade cottage cheese, it can be prepared at home from good live (with a short shelf life) kefir. To do this, pour kefir into a glass or metal container and place it on water bath(in a pan of water, for example, in a colander). Cover with a lid and simmer the kefir for 20-30 minutes over low heat. It is advisable that the kefir does not boil, otherwise the grains will turn out more rigid. Then we filter everything through cheesecloth, tie the cheesecloth with the curdled mass into a knot and hang it on a spoon in a deep pan so that there is somewhere for the whey to drain. There are many devices for weighing cottage cheese: for example, you can put the cottage cheese in a sieve with small holes, or you can line a colander with gauze. Leave for 3-6 hours. From 1 liter of full-fat kefir you get about 200 g of cottage cheese.
Place 200 g of cottage cheese into a bowl for kneading dough. If you are preparing cheesecakes for the whole family, increase the proportions of ingredients. Grind the cottage cheese with a fork, grind through a sieve or puree with an immersion blender.
2. Break one large chicken egg into a bowl with the cottage cheese and mix thoroughly until a homogeneous mass is formed.
3. Add 1.5 tbsp to the curd mass. sugar and a pinch of salt. Instead of sugar, you can use condensed milk or honey to taste.
4. Wheat flour sift and add to the rest of the ingredients in a bowl. Add 0.5 tsp. baking powder for the dough to make the cheesecakes more fluffy. Add 2 tablespoons of flour, mix so that there are no flour lumps left and look at the consistency. If the mass turns out to be liquid, you can add 1 more tablespoon of flour. We arm ourselves with a grater with small holes and grate the lemon or orange zest, not reaching the white film. Add a small amount of lemon zest to the bowl with the ingredients. Thanks to the zest, the finished cheesecakes will be incredibly fragrant. It can be used dried, although fresh it is more fragrant.
5. Wash the red, black and white currants thoroughly, cut off the leaves and stalks. Dry the liquid in a colander or napkin, then add to the curd mass. Gently stir in the juicy berries, trying not to disturb their integrity.
6. Turn on the oven to preheat at 180 degrees. Very beautiful cottage cheese pancakes with berries in the oven are made in portions silicone molds. Spoon the curd and berry mixture into them. Place in the oven to bake for 30-40 minutes. The baking time is individual for each oven and depends on its power. Focus on your technique.
7. Remove the molds from the oven and check the cheesecakes for readiness by piercing them in the center with a toothpick or wooden skewer. If there are no liquid traces of cottage cheese left on the stick, the cheesecakes are ready.
8. Cool slightly and remove the baked goods from the molds. Sprinkle with grated chocolate or powdered sugar through a fine sieve and decorate fresh berries. Delicious cottage cheese pancakes with berries are ready, Bon appetit! And next time I suggest preparing cheesecakes in the oven according to the recipe with semolina instead of flour.
Ingredients
- pasty cottage cheese - 550 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- sugar - 100 g;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- flour - 160 g;
- sour cream 15% - 90 g;
- baking powder - ½ tsp;
- frozen cherries - 55 g.
Yield: 20 pieces
I prepared berry cheesecakes with frozen cherries from which I removed the pits. You can take other favorite berries. If the fruit is large, I recommend cutting it into several parts.
This sweet pastries more like soft curd cookies, perfect for a tea ceremony!
How to cook cheesecakes with frozen berries - recipe in the oven
- Beat the egg with sugar (80 g) and vanilla.
- Mash the cottage cheese with a fork, combine with the egg mixture, mix well.
- Sift the flour together with baking powder through a sieve and gradually add it to the curd mass. Stir until smooth. Leave for 10-15 minutes for the flour to swell.
- Mix sour cream with the remaining granulated sugar.
- IN curd dough pour in the prepared berries and mix.
- Place non-stick paper on a baking sheet, grease with vegetable oil or butter. From curd mass make small cutlets. Place the pieces on the prepared sheet and place in an oven preheated to 160 degrees. Bake until golden brown.
- Remove the cheesecakes from the cottage cheese with frozen berries, brush each sweet cookie with sour cream and sugar, and place back in the oven for another 10 minutes.
- Bon appetit!
Berries transform the taste of traditional cheesecakes, and the addition of citrus zest also refreshes them... For such cheesecakes, the berries can be fresh or frozen, for example, with blueberries, as well as red or black currants, with shadberry, with strawberries, with cherries (without seeds), etc.
Orange or lemon zest is suitable, lemon is added here.
Cheesecakes with berries served with sour cream, condensed milk and chocolate sauces are very tasty...
Prepare the ingredients according to the list:
Mash the cottage cheese.
Add the egg or eggs and stir.
Grate the zest very finely, add it, sugar and salt to the curd mass.
Combine the mixture with flour (if desired, add soda to the flour for fluffiness). Stir and the curd dough for cheesecakes is ready.
Add fresh or frozen berries rolled in flour to it, which do not need to be defrosted. Form round or oval cheesecakes, you will get 12-16 pieces depending on the size. Bread them in flour and place on a floured surface.
Fry cheesecakes with berries in hot (but not at maximum) frying pans on vegetable oil on both sides. Since some flour falls off the cheesecakes, before each new serving of cheesecakes, wipe the pan with a napkin, i.e. remove the burning flour...
Cheesecakes with berries are ready. Especially the tastes of cheesecakes with blueberries and lemon zest drizzled with melted chocolate, chocolate sauce or chocolate icing and also just with condensed milk or sour cream...
Enjoy your tea!