Every self-respecting hostess knows how to cook cheesecakes. The essence of cheesecakes is one, but there are many ways to prepare them. In order for your cheesecakes to always turn out perfect both in taste and in appearance, they should be prepared according to a time-tested recipe.
For three generations of hostesses, this wonderful dish has been prepared exactly as described below, and thanks to this, syrniki have become the signature breakfast of many families. There is no doubt that over time this dish will remain in the arsenal of Russian housewives.
It is important to point out the fact that they are mostly baked in vegetable oil, but there are recipes for baking cheesecakes in the oven.
Lush cheesecakes on yolks
In most cheesecake recipes, whole eggs are added to the dough. This method of preparing lush cheesecakes involves the use of some yolks, which must be beaten very carefully. Also, raisins and vanillin are added to the curd mass - for a subtle pleasant aroma.
- Half a kilo of cottage cheese;
- Raisin;
- Vanillin;
- Sugar - a little more than half a glass;
- 4-5 large eggs or 6-7 small ones (only yolks);
- Soda - 12 g;
- An incomplete glass of flour.
My raisins and steam for 3-4 minutes in boiling water, then spread on a towel and dry. Add vanillin, half the sugar and raisins to the cottage cheese, mix. Beat the yolks thoroughly with the rest of the sugar and spread in the curd mass. Add baking soda and flour to the mass, mix again. The dough should be moderately moist, light and loose. It should easily take the desired shape. We sculpt small balls from the mass and give them the shape of cakes. We heat a sufficient amount of oil in a frying pan and begin to bake our curds. Fry on each side until golden brown. Since the dough will increase in volume during baking, do not put too many cheesecakes in the pan. For the same reason, cakes should be small. serve ready-made cheesecakes with berry syrup, sour cream or melted chocolate.
Cottage cheese pancakes are a recipe of many Slavic peoples. Cottage cheese syrniki is a national dish among Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians. A simple recipe for making delicious and ruddy cheesecakes from cottage cheese with flour or semolina with an egg. Such cheesecakes always turn out tender, airy and juicy.
A common problem with cheesecakes is the amount of flour. Then there is too much of it, and instead of tender meatballs, tight hockey pucks are obtained. Then there is too little of it, and cheesecakes spread in a frying pan into sloppy, shapeless cakes.
There is only one answer: there should be enough flour so that the dough comes out dense and elastic at the same time and is perfectly molded without sticking to your fingers. Therefore, it must be added gradually until the desired result is achieved.
Cottage cheese pancakes recipe step by step
Cottage cheese pancakes are easy to make. There are no tricks in the cheesecake recipe:
- Mix a pound of cottage cheese, one egg, a few tablespoons of flour (or semolina), two tablespoons of sugar, salt, knead well;
- Divide the dough for cheesecakes into balls, mold the cakes, roll them in flour and fry in butter. Cheesecakes are ready!
If you add less flour to cottage cheese pancakes, they will turn out tender, a little more - they will be denser, each housewife adjusts the amount of flour to her liking.
By the way, if you change the recipe a little and roll up a sausage from the dough for syrniki (only more flour), cut it into small circles, roll in flour and throw it in boiling water for a few minutes, then you will not get cottage cheese.
Recipes for cottage cheese pancakes:
Recipe 1: Cottage Cheesecakes
The most traditional cheesecake recipe contains the following simple ingredients:
- 2 eggs or 3 yolks;
- Cottage cheese or curd mass - 500 g;
- Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp;
- Sugar - 3-5 tbsp. taste;
- A pinch of salt;
- Flour - 100 g;
- Butter;
- Vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
- It is good to knead the cottage cheese with a fork or chop with a blender;
- Add yolks or eggs, sugar, a pinch of salt and vanilla sugar to the cottage cheese;
- Mix the whole mass well. Pour flour into the mixture and mix well again;
- With moistened hands form cheesecakes and lightly roll them in flour;
- In a frying pan, heat a little butter and vegetable oil and fry the cheesecakes on both sides over low heat until golden brown. You can fry cheesecakes with the lid of the pan closed, or you can open it with the lid open.
Tip: if you want your cheesecakes to be tasty, choose cottage cheese with an average fat content. Curd should not be too fatty or low fat or sour. Put the finished cheesecakes on a plate, let them cool down a bit and start eating with sour cream. Bon appetit!
Video "Cheesecakes from cottage cheese"
Recipe 2: Cottage cheese pancakes recipe with semolina
Ingredients:
- Manka - 30 g.;
- Baking powder - 1/2 tsp;
- Cottage cheese - 300-350 g;
- White flour - 50 g;
- Salt - 1/4 tsp;
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Sugar - 1-2 tablespoons;
- Oil - for frying.
Cooking:
- In a bowl, mix cottage cheese, egg, salt and sugar;
- Now add semolina, baking powder for dough, flour to the curd mass;
- Mix everything well and let the dough stand for 10-15 minutes so that the semolina has time to swell;
- Form small cakes by rolling them in flour;
- In a frying pan, heat the vegetable oil and fry the cheesecakes in it on both sides until an appetizing golden crust is formed;
- Serve the finished dish hot, piping hot, with sour cream, honey or liquid jam. Bon appetit!
Video "Cheesecakes from cottage cheese with semolina"
Recipe 3: Classic cottage cheese pancakes
Product set:
- Flour - 6 tablespoons;
- Egg - 2 pcs.;
- Cottage cheese - 500 gr.;
- Soda - 1/2 tsp;
- Sugar - 3 tablespoons;
- Vegetable oil - 6 tablespoons;
- Vanilla sugar;
- Salt - a pinch.
Step by step classic recipe:
- Be sure to sift the flour, it will be saturated with oxygen and the cheesecakes will be more magnificent. It is desirable that the flour be of the highest grade, it contains a lot of glue, which allows them to keep the consistency and not fall apart;
- Now let's move on to curd. It is important to cook cheesecakes from soft cottage cheese. You need to buy it fresh or cook it yourself. Then the dish will be more fragrant, without foreign odors;
- If the cottage cheese is with lumps, then grind it through satiety until smooth. It is very good if there is a little whey in the cottage cheese, it gives sourness and juiciness, and also soda gives a good reaction, the dough rises better and the cheesecakes turn out lush, and not flattened like pancakes;
- So, put soda in the cottage cheese, let it stand for 5-10 minutes so that the soda gives a reaction. Then add a pinch of salt, mix;
- Beat eggs with sugar (to make cheesecakes sweeter, you can put more sugar);
- Pour into cottage cheese, mix, add vanilla or vanilla sugar. Mix the mass with a wooden spatula, because a metal spoon gives a reaction to soda;
- Then add a little flour and knead a very soft dough, but also not to be liquid. Cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe. They are cooked with flour, or without it. But it is better to make sure that they do not crumble when frying;
- Dust the table with flour and form into balls. Balls can be made in many ways. For example, form a rocking chair from the dough and cut into portions, make small balls. Then press them down a little;
- Another way: pinch off small pieces from the total mass of the dough and form balls. Then also flatten a little.
Another important note! After kneading the dough, it is advisable not to immediately fry the cheesecakes, but let the dough stand for at least 40–50 minutes. When it is infused, the glue will swell well and the soda will raise the dough. And cheesecakes will turn out very tasty, lush and soft. If you fry immediately, then they can turn out flattened, hard. So let the test stand!
Proper frying of cottage cheese pancakes:
- Be sure to heat the frying pan well, carefully pour vegetable oil and heat it up. Oil does not need to be poured a lot, because cheesecakes will be saturated with it, they will be greasy and tasteful. Therefore, pour it a little;
- Then fry the formed balls;
- After 1-2 minutes, reduce the fire so that the cheesecakes do not burn and are not raw inside. Cover the pan with a lid, so they will definitely fry until cooked;
- Fry evenly on both sides until golden brown. The usual cooking time is 5-7 minutes, this is enough for the cheesecakes to be ready;
- Put them in a dish with a napkin so that the oil is absorbed into it. Syrniki can be served with various juices, yoghurts, sour cream. With sweet dishes, marmalade, jam, honey, stewed apples, etc.
This recipe is easy and quick to make. The dish is very tasty! We advise you to try! We're sure you'll love them and want more! And hostesses, mothers, wives, will be able to feed them tasty and nutritious not only to children, but also to husbands! Cottage cheese pancakes are high in calories and men will love them! Bon appetit!
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Recipe 4: Cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe in the oven
This cooking method has undeniable advantages:
- Cheesecakes will not have a crust that is harmful to health due to the content of carcinogenic substances;
- It is not necessary to be at the stove during the entire cooking process, as the dish is baked evenly;
- Does not require a large amount of oil;
- The ability to cook a large number of servings at once;
- They are a diet food.
How to cook cheesecakes in the oven:
Ingredients:
- Egg - 2 pcs.;
- Sugar - 5 tbsp;
- Cottage cheese - 500 g;
- Soda - 0.5 tsp;
- Wheat flour - 200 g;
- Baking powder - 1 tsp;
- Salt - to taste.
Cooking:
- To prepare cheesecakes in the oven, we take cottage cheese, preferably not wet, and knead thoroughly with a fork. If it is very lumpy and dry, then we twist it through a meat grinder;
- Then add sugar, eggs, add a little and knead the curd mass well;
- In a separate bowl, mix the baking powder, flour, soda, and then gently pour the cottage cheese;
- We knead a dense homogeneous dough so that our cheesecakes do not spread;
- Now sprinkle the handles with flour and roll small balls the size of an egg from the curd mass;
- Then put them on a greased baking sheet, away from each other, because the cheesecakes will slightly increase in size during baking;
- Press each ball a little so that you get plump cakes;
- We put the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake for 30 minutes;
- We shift the finished cheesecakes into a sealed bowl, pouring with melted butter. Cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe in the oven. They turn out fluffy, tender and insanely delicious. Bon appetit!
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Recipe 5: Banana Cottage Cheesecakes
Ingredients for making cottage cheese pancakes with banana:
- Wheat flour 120 g for dough and 50 g for boning;
- Banana - 2 pcs.;
- Cottage cheese of medium fat content, dry - 500 g;
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Sugar - 100 gr.;
- Vanilla sugar 2 tsp;
- Vegetable oil for frying;
- Baking powder food 1 tsp
Preparation of cottage cheese pancakes with banana:
Step 1: prepare the cottage cheese-banana mixture.
- First of all, we wash the bananas and dry them with paper kitchen towels. Then we remove the skin from each, which we immediately throw away, and break the pulp into small pieces and knead with a table fork to the consistency of mashed potatoes, it is possible with lumps, it’s even tastier;
- Now we wipe the right amount of medium-fat cottage cheese through a sieve with a fine mesh, it is desirable that it be a little dry, that is, loose with a minimum amount of moisture;
- Then we add a medium-sized raw chicken egg, food baking powder, ordinary granulated sugar, then vanilla into the bowl and sift the premium wheat flour. We mix everything until a homogeneous consistency with the same fork and look at the structure of the resulting mass. If it's too sticky, add a little more flour until the banana-curd batter is thicker enough to form into a ball, and then move on to the next, almost final step.
Step 2: we form and fry cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe with a banana.
- We put a frying pan on medium heat and pour 60-70 milliliters of vegetable oil into it. While it is warming up, with the help of a tablespoon we divide the curd-banana mass into small slides;
- Wet, that is, dipped in a small amount of water, with the palms of our hands we form balls the size of a walnut from them.
We roll each in the remaining wheat flour, previously sifted into a dry bowl, and press lightly so that we get a round cheesecake about 1.5 centimeters thick; - We spread the first batch of products in well-heated oil and fry the curd-banana miracle on both sides until golden brown, about 2-3 minutes from each side;
- As soon as the rounds are browned, use a kitchen spatula to transfer them to a paper towel and leave it on it for a while to absorb excess fat;
- Then, in the same way, we form and prepare the rest of the cheesecakes, let them cool down a bit and proceed to the tasting.
Step 3: serve cottage cheese pancakes with banana.
- Cottage cheese pancakes with banana recipe are served warm or at room temperature. They are served on a large flat dish or immediately in portions on plates. As an addition to this delicious dessert, you can offer sour cream, cream, homemade thick yogurt, jams, jams, honey, fresh berries and fruits, custards or butter creams, sweet sauces, toppings, although regular powdered sugar is also suitable.
It is pleasant to savor this simple culinary masterpiece in good company along with fresh cold or hot drinks: tea, coffee, latte, chocolate, jelly, juice, compote or whatever you like best. Cook with love and enjoy! Bon appetit!
Video "Banana cottage cheese pancakes"
Recipe 6: Lush Cottage Cheesecakes
Ingredients for Fluffy Cheesecakes:
- Eggs - 1 pc.;
- Semolina - 2 tablespoons;
- Raisins - 50 g;
- Cottage cheese - 500 g;
- Flour - 2 tablespoons;
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- Salt - a pinch.
Step-by-step recipe for making lush cheesecakes:
- For cheesecakes we take good cottage cheese. It should not be sour and wet, although the moisture can be removed, just put the cottage cheese in cheesecloth and hang it up to glass the whey. Then wipe the cottage cheese for a more uniform consistency. Raisins should be washed well, drained and dried;
- Now we add the rest of the ingredients to the curd - sugar, vanillin, egg, flour, salt and semolina, which will give the cheesecakes splendor, because it tends to swell in the finished product. Mix everything thoroughly with a spoon.
At the end add raisins. Do not forget to dry it on a napkin so that it is not wet and so that you do not have to add a lot of flour to the cheesecakes; - To form cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe, sprinkle the board with flour and put a spoonful of curd mass on it. We form the cheesecake, helping ourselves with the side of the knife and rolling it in flour. Then, when we fry, shake off the excess flour;
- Fry the cheesecakes on each side quite a bit. You can fry them in vegetable or ghee;
- We put the cheesecakes in a mold and put in a hot oven for 7 minutes to cook them. Best served hot. Any jam, honey and sour cream are suitable for them. Try making cheesecakes using this recipe. Lush cottage cheese pancakes will be provided to you. Bon appetit!
Video "Lush cottage cheese pancakes"
Recipe 7: Chocolate Cottage Cheesecakes
Products:
- Wheat flour - 4-5 tablespoons;
- Cottage cheese - 500 g;
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Dark chocolate - 50 g;
- Sugar - 3-4 tablespoons;
- Butter - 25 g;
- A pinch of salt;
- Vegetable oil - for frying.
Cooking cottage cheese pancakes with chocolate:
- Wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve or scroll through a meat grinder, then it will become softer and more uniform, which will significantly improve the taste of the finished dish;
- Add flour, sugar, salt, butter to cottage cheese and beat in an egg;
- Mix the curd mass well;
- Break the chocolate into pieces about 2 cm in size;
- Take a portion of the curd mass and make a cake out of it, in the middle of which put a piece of chocolate;
- Cover the chocolate on top with another small curd cake, pinch the edges and bread the cheesecake in flour;
- Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and lay out the cheesecakes to fry. Fry them on medium heat first on one side for about 4 minutes until golden brown, then flip to the other side and fry for the same amount of time;
- Serve ready-made cheesecakes to the table immediately after cooking, while they are hot and tender, and the chocolate is melted and viscous. Bon appetit!
Video "Chocolate cottage cheese pancakes"
Recipe 8: Cheesecakes from cottage cheese and raisins
List of ingredients:
- Raisins - 2 tablespoons;
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Cottage cheese - 250 g;
- Oil for frying;
- Sugar - 2.5 tablespoons;
- A pinch of salt;
- Wheat flour - 50 g;
- Ground cinnamon.
Cooking process:
- Before preparing the dough for cheesecakes, rinse the raisins, and then fill them with warm water and leave it for at least half an hour;
- In a bowl, mix the egg, sugar, salt and cinnamon. Whisk well;
- Add cottage cheese grated through a sieve;
- Add sifted wheat flour, you can take whole grain;
- Now add the swollen raisins. Mix all the ingredients until the dough becomes homogeneous, with frequent small grains of cottage cheese;
- Preheat a frying pan, pour frying oil on it, form small balls of dough, put in a frying pan. Fry over low heat for 4 minutes on one side;
- Flip the cheesecakes with raisins with a spatula to the other side. Fry for another 3 minutes. Delicious cheesecakes with raisins are ready;
- It is best to serve them immediately while they are still warm. And with them, serve sour cream, jam or fresh berries. And also make tea, cocoa, or pour a glass of milk. Bon appetit!
Video "Cheesecakes from cottage cheese and raisins"
Recipe 9: Cottage Cheesecakes with Carrots
List of ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 140 gr.;
- Table margarine - 3 g;
- Peeled carrots - 45 g;
- 15 g of sugar (about 1 tablespoon);
- 7 g of cooking oil for frying cheesecakes or sunflower oil;
- 5 g of semolina (1 tsp);
- 25 g wheat flour (2/3 flour for the curd mixture, the rest for breading);
- 1/5 egg (shake the egg in a cup, pour 1/5 part into the cottage cheese);
- Sour cream or honey.
Cooking process:
- We rub the carrots on a fine grater. Grated carrots should be stewed (on medium or less heat) with margarine in a small amount of water (10% water to the net weight of carrots). Then you need to add semolina to the carrots and heat until it swells, stirring (because I needed the saucepan in which the carrots were used for porridge, I heated the carrots with semolina in a pan over medium heat);
- Transfer the carrot mixture to a plate and set aside to cool slightly. At this time, in another bowl, mix the cottage cheese, part of the egg, sugar and 2/3 of the flour. Mix with carrots;
- While the pan with oil is heating, we form the cheesecakes. We take a small part (a tablespoon with a slide), roll it into a ball, flatten it, slap it around the edges and gently flatten it again, resulting in curd pucks. Roll them in flour;
- Fry the cheesecakes until golden brown for 20 seconds on each side. It turns out beautiful golden cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe;
- Serve warm with sour cream, although they are delicious cold. They have a very mild sweet taste. Bon appetit!
Recipe 10: Cottage Cheesecakes with Apples
How to cook cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe with apples - ingredients:
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Apple - 1 pc.;
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
- Cottage cheese - 300 g;
- Flour - 2 tablespoons;
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- A pinch of salt;
- A pinch of cinnamon.
How to cook cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe with apples:
- Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve to get a homogeneous mass without lumps;
- Combine cottage cheese, egg, sifted flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon and knead the dough;
- Peel the apple from the peel and seeds, rub on a coarse grater and immediately add to the dough so that the apple does not have time to darken;
- From the resulting mass, form balls, flatten a little to get the shape of cheesecakes, and roll them in flour;
- Fry cheesecakes on both sides in a heated pan in vegetable oil for 5-7 minutes until golden brown;
- Cheesecakes are a tricky dish, they can be eaten hot, but they taste better when they cool down;
- Serve apple and cottage cheese pancakes with sour cream, honey, jam, curdled milk or just for tea. Bon appetit!.
Video "Cheesecakes from cottage cheese with apples"
Secrets of cooking delicious and tender cheesecakes
- Secret 1. The right cottage cheese If you want to get a delicious dish, you should use only quality products. Cottage cheese is the basis of cottage cheese pancakes, so a successful result is guaranteed if it is fresh, not very sour, fatty, or vice versa fat-free. If you use a dryish mass, then it can be made more elastic and softened with milk, sour cream or kefir. You will have to compensate for the increased acidity of the cottage cheese with an excess amount of sugar, which may not have a very positive effect on the figure. And the taste of natural cottage cheese will already be in the background. High humidity in the cottage cheese is undesirable, otherwise you will have to add more flour or semolina to the dough. Cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe. They can turn out "rubber". You can get rid of excess whey in cottage cheese very simply: put it in a colander (gauze) and let the excess liquid drain.
Little advice. The key to tasty and juicy cheesecakes is the uniform consistency of the cottage cheese. It is advisable to rub any cottage cheese through a sieve so that the mass is tender and homogeneous. If necessary, add sour cream (kefir, milk);
- Secret 2. Juiciness The key to the juiciness of cheesecakes is in an ideal consistency. To bind moisture, semolina, wheat flour, and starch are added to cheesecakes. For diet recipes, you can use bran flour. Also, the eggs will not allow cheesecakes to fall apart, so they are included in the recipe without fail. True, there should not be too many of them, otherwise you will again have to add more flour or semolina. Then the cheesecakes can be tougher. Sometimes you can use only the yolks to get a nice color and rich taste. There are also recipes for dietary high-protein cheesecakes, where only proteins without yolks are used;
- Secret 3. Additional ingredients There are recipes for cheesecakes with a variety of ingredients. They can be salty, spicy, spicy, but the most common cheesecakes are sweet. They usually put sugar, dried apricots or raisins, cherries, dried cranberries. Vanilla is also added. For sugar-free options, dried vegetables, herbs, garlic, and so on are used. The main thing is not to overdo it with the amount of ingredients;
- Secret 4. Size and shape It is better to form cheesecakes of small diameter and not too thick, otherwise they will not bake well and it will be more difficult to turn them over. The best option for determining the size is a tablespoon with which you take the dough. Make cheesecakes in the form of small washers;
- Secret 5. Beautiful crust - cheesecakes from cottage cheese recipe Most often, cheesecakes are fried, but they can also be baked in the oven (preferably in special molds). Sometimes they are steamed, then they taste more like lazy dumplings. The key to the success of an appetizing crust is a good non-stick frying pan with a thick bottom. If it is not there, then follow the following rules: a) use high-quality vegetable oil intended for frying; b) before cooking, the pan should be heated;
c) during cooking, cover the pan with a dome-shaped lid so that the cheesecakes are well baked;
d) fry over low heat, then the cheesecakes will grab well and bake.
A simple classic recipe for juicy and tender cheesecakes
Now that you know all about the basic intricacies of making cheesecakes, it's time to start making them yourself.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 tbsp;
- Semolina - 2 tablespoons;
- Cottage cheese (1 pack) - 200 g;
- Sour cream - 1 tbsp;
- Egg - 1 pc.;
- Vegetable oil for frying;
- Sugar, vanilla, raisins, salt to taste.
Cooking method:
- In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients and let the dough stand for about 15-30 minutes. This will allow the flour and semolina to absorb moisture;
- Form a sausage and cut into small circles (1.5-2 cm) or use a tablespoon to measure;
- Dip in flour and send to a preheated pan;
- Fry over medium heat on both sides until golden brown;
- Cheesecakes can be served hot or cold with sour cream. Sweet cheesecakes can be watered with honey, jam or condensed milk. Bon appetit!
Video "Homemade cottage cheese pancakes"
Syrniki is one of the most popular cottage cheese dishes. They are valued primarily for their ease of preparation and delicate taste. There are a lot of recipes for making cheesecakes now, every housewife is trying to update the classic recipe and add something of her own. They are prepared with semolina, dried apricots, raisins, various fruits, boiled condensed milk, poppy seeds and many others.
Traditionally, syrniki are made from four simple ingredients: fatty cottage cheese, eggs, sugar, and flour. Someone replaces flour with semolina, someone manages to cook without eggs at all, despite this, the result is always pleasing to the eye. Yes, and the taste is in no way inferior to the original, for example, syrniki with semolina are airy and very soft, with a unique delicate taste, syrniki without eggs are suitable for young children and people with allergies.
Cheesecakes are cooked mainly in a frying pan in a small amount of vegetable oil, frying on both sides until golden barrels. When preparing a more dietary version of a dish, they use an oven or a double boiler, and multicooker lovers use their miracle assistant.
Surely, when preparing a dessert, many people wondered why cheesecakes got such a name, because they are made not from cheese, but from cottage cheese. Everything is very simple, the recipe is over 200 years old, it appeared at a time when there was no cheese in its usual form, local farmers produced only a cheese product, and the cottage cheese of those times was called cheese. A lot of delicious dishes were prepared from it, among them cheese cakes familiar to us. Later, under Peter I, they learned how to produce rennet cheeses, similar to those that we eat every day for breakfast, and only after that the concepts of cheese and cottage cheese were separated.
The dish is very versatile, it can be prepared as a dessert and served with jam and sour cream, or as an appetizer and served with a spicy mayonnaise sauce with garlic and dill. The dish is equally good both hot and cold.
There are several secrets for making cheesecakes that will help you achieve great taste and spectacular appearance:
- In order for cheesecakes to be more tender and airy, you can cook them not in a pan, but in the oven;
- Do not take sour cottage cheese as a basis. In order to get a delicious dish, use only high-quality, fatty cottage cheese;
- Dry cottage cheese can always be softened by adding milk, kefir or sour cream to it;
- In order for cheesecakes to melt in your mouth, you can rub the cottage cheese through a sieve before mixing the ingredients;
- To avoid burnt sides and not fried middle, you need to lay them in hot oil and fry over low heat;
- In the dough for cheesecakes, you can add anything you like raisins, fruits, nuts. It is important to avoid getting walnuts, they will give the final dish a not very appetizing bluish tint.
The dish is easy to prepare, but all housewives cook it differently, each has its own secret or special ingredient, which makes their cheesecakes stand out from the rest.
We present to your attention a recipe for making cheesecakes from cottage cheese, prepared according to the classic recipe and equipped with detailed step-by-step photos.
Ingredients for making cottage cheese pancakes:
- Cottage cheese 500 grams
- Egg 2 pcs.
- Sugar 3 tbsp. spoons
- Flour 150 grams
Recipe for cottage cheese pancakes (with photo):
- Put cottage cheese, sugar and eggs into a deep bowl, mix thoroughly, trying to avoid the appearance of lumps, so that the mass is homogeneous.
- Add flour to the bowl, in an amount sufficient to make the mass resemble a soft dough.
- Pour a little flour into a flat plate, form cheesecakes from the dough and roll them in it.
- Heat the frying pan, pour a little vegetable oil and lay out the cheesecakes.
- Fry on both sides until nice golden brown.
Cheesecakes can be served both hot and cold. As a sauce, you can serve cold sour cream or jam.
A delicate thin crispy crust of a beautiful caramel color, under which lies a delicate cottage cheese that simply melts on the tongue and gives taste buds a lot of pleasure. This is not some gourmet restaurant dish, but a simple recipe for cottage cheese pancakes that you can treat yourself and your family to for breakfast or an afternoon snack.
Classic cottage cheese pancakes are a tasty and quick dish to prepare, which the hostess will spend no more than twenty minutes on. In order for curd products to turn out, it is important to maintain the ratio of wet products and flour.
A proven recipe will help to cope with this task:
- 500 g of cottage cheese;
- 120 g flour;
- 80 g of granulated sugar;
- 1 table egg;
- 60 ml vegetable oil for frying.
Cooking process step by step:
- Pass the cottage cheese through a fine sieve or simply crush it with a potato masher, depending on its granularity. Crack an egg into it and stir, then add sugar and flour. The result should be a homogeneous curd dough that will hold its shape well.
- Roll one tablespoon of the curd mass into a ball, which is pressed down between the palms to make a flat cake. Roll the curd blanks in flour or semolina and fry in vegetable oil.
How to cook in the oven?
Cottage cheese, which is the main ingredient of cheesecakes, is very useful, and small children know about it, but the frying process somewhat reduces this benefit. How to cook a dish in order to preserve the benefits of a fermented milk product as much as possible and get a golden crust? It's simple - cook cottage cheese in the oven.
For baked air cheesecakes, you need to prepare:
- 300 g of cottage cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 100 g sour cream;
- 75 g of granulated sugar;
- 5 g vanilla sugar;
- 75 g of semolina;
- 5 g baking powder;
- 30 g butter.
We bake in the oven:
- Push cottage cheese through a sieve. So the dough will be more uniform. Add both types of sugar and eggs. Stir the food with a fork.
- Then sour cream, soft creamy butter is sent to the dough. When these products are mixed, add semolina and baking powder. Let the finished dough rest for half an hour.
- After the semolina swells, the dough will become like thick sour cream. They need to fill the silicone molds, a little short of the brim. Bake for half an hour until golden brown at 180 degrees.
In a slow cooker
A modern multifunctional assistant will help you prepare delicious cheesecakes. You can cook this dish steamed or in its classic variation with a ruddy crispy fried crust.
For traditional cheesecakes in a slow cooker you will need:
- 250 g of cottage cheese;
- 1 table egg;
- 50 g of granulated sugar;
- 2 g vanilla sugar;
- 50 g flour;
- 30 ml vegetable oil.
Step by step:
- Grind cottage cheese through a fine sieve so that there are no large lumps, mix it with sugar, vanilla, egg and flour. Bring the mass to homogeneity.
- Pour vegetable oil into the bottom of the multi-pan bowl and turn on the “Baking” option. While the oil is warming up, form curd cakes, which are pre-rolled in flour, fry in oil for five minutes on each side. Sweet jam, sour cream or honey will complement the cottage cheese from the multicooker.
With semolina - a traditional recipe
The complexity of cooking dishes from cottage cheese lies in the fact that the product may have different moisture content, so flour will be required, a little more or less than indicated in the recipe. It is difficult for an inexperienced hostess to guess this number. In this case, a recipe with semolina will help out, which will take away excess moisture and make cheesecakes lush.
For traditional cheesecakes with semolina, you need to take:
- 600 g of cottage cheese;
- 3 table eggs;
- 180 g of semolina;
- 60-70 g of granulated sugar;
- 50 g raisins;
- 5 g salt;
- unflavored oil for frying.
How to cook cottage cheese:
- Sort the raisins, rinse and steam in boiling water for 10-15 minutes.
- Put all other products in a bowl, mix thoroughly and leave to stand for a quarter of an hour or a little more.
- Then add steamed and dried raisins to the dough, mix. After wetting your hands in water, form small cakes, bread them in semolina and fry in vegetable oil.
No added eggs
Wet cottage cheese can be easily tied together with other ingredients without eggs, but in this case the cheesecakes are not as tender as according to the classic recipe, but more dense. The binding ingredient of the dough will be flour gluten.
The proportions of the necessary products:
- 400 g of wet cottage cheese;
- 25 g sugar;
- 3 g salt;
- 3 g vanilla;
- 50-100 g of raisins (you can chopped dried apricots);
- 100-150 g flour.
Cooking cheesecakes without eggs:
- Grind cottage cheese with sugar, vanilla and salt. Then add flour little by little. As soon as it is possible to mold a lump that is practically not sticky to the hands from the curd dough, there is enough flour. Stir in prepared dried fruits.
- Form small balls from the curd dough, flatten them and roll in flour.
- Fry in a pan with a thin layer of vegetable oil. First, the fire must be strong so that a crust appears, then it should be reduced to medium, so the middle is baked. For the same purpose, they should be held on fire for a couple of minutes under the lid.
Delicious and fluffy cottage cheese pancakes
If you happened to buy dry cottage cheese, then it can be turned into delicious and lush cheesecakes. It is such a fermented milk product that they need. The second secret to splendor is the use of baking soda, which should not be extinguished.
To prepare lush cheesecakes, you should take:
- 700 g of cottage cheese;
- 3 eggs;
- 100 g flour;
- 50 g of white crystalline sugar;
- 30 g sour cream;
- 5 g of soda.
Cooking method:
- Beat eggs with sugar, grind cottage cheese with sour cream, combine both masses. Then stir in the sifted flour and baking soda. Mix the dough well.
- Form small products, be sure to bread in flour and fry in a small amount of vegetable oil under a lid over low heat.
with apples
An apple in the composition of the curd dough will add juiciness to ready-made cheesecakes and enrich the taste with fruity notes. Instead of the usual vanilla, you can add a little cinnamon to the curd mass, which goes well with an apple.
List and quantity of necessary products:
- 400 g of cottage cheese;
- 2 large eggs;
- 50 g of sugar;
- 75 g of semolina;
- 100 g flour;
- 200 g of apples;
- 3 g salt;
- cinnamon or vanilla to taste.
Cooking:
- In a deep bowl, put cottage cheese, salt, sugar, eggs, cinnamon (vanilla). Grind these products into a homogeneous mass.
- Prepare apple pulp: remove the skin from the fruit, cut out the seeds and chop into small cubes. You can chop apples with a coarse grater.
- Add apples and flour to cottage cheese. There should be enough of the last product so that the dough falls behind the hands.
- Form small products from the curd-apple mass, bread them in semolina and fry in vegetable or ghee.
From curd mass
Cheesecakes according to this recipe are not too tender, similar to soufflés, but not clogged with flour, like donuts.
And for such perfect cheesecakes, you only need four ingredients:
- 500 g of sweet curd mass with raisins;
- 1 selected chicken egg;
- 100 g wheat flour;
- 50 g butter.
How to make cottage cheese pancakes:
- With a fork, shake the egg a little until smooth and mix in a suitable bowl with the curd mass.
- Grind soft butter with flour and also mix with curd mass.
- Spoon the dough into a bowl with flour. There, roll a ball out of it, which is flattened into a cake and fry in vegetable oil until crispy golden brown.
With oatmeal
Adherents of a healthy diet will love this recipe for cheesecakes with a minimum of flour. It is needed only for breading. The amount depends on personal taste preferences.
The proportions of all the necessary products will be as follows:
- 500 g of cottage cheese;
- 1 table egg;
- 50-100 g of granulated sugar;
- 70-80 g instant oatmeal;
- 50 g raisins optional;
- 3 g salt;
- flour for breading and oil for frying.
Work sequence:
- Measure all the products necessary for cooking in one bowl, mix thoroughly and leave for at least half an hour, ideally for an hour to swell the flakes.
- After the specified time, make small cheesecakes from the curd-oatmeal mass, roll them in flour, put on a cutting board covered with cling film and put in the freezer. Frozen cheesecakes are easier to fry, they will not fall apart and will not spread in different directions during frying.
- In a frying pan over high heat, heat the vegetable oil, then make the fire moderate and cook the formed products on it.
For him you need to take:
- 500 g of cottage cheese;
- 200 g banana pulp;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 1 egg;
- 100 g flour;
- 5 g baking powder.
Cooking progress:
- Grind cottage cheese with sugar and egg, add a mixture of sifted flour and baking powder. When the dough is almost ready, add bananas cut into small cubes.
- Divide the mass into 10-12 balls. Flatten each of them, giving the shape of a cake and fry in vegetable oil for 4 minutes on each side. Serve with a serving of sour cream.
Why are syrniki called syrniki and not cottage cheese?
Syrniki is quite an ancient dish. Already in the 19th century, it was an old dish, and this is not surprising, since it was cooked back in pagan Rus'. This also explains their round shape, which the Slavs associate with the ancient god of the Sun - Yarilo.
But the word "cottage cheese" appeared much later than the recipe for cheesecakes. It happened in the eighteenth century, when cheese making was actively developing, and Dutch, German, Swiss and French cheese appeared on the grocery market. Then all rennet cheeses began to be called cheeses, and the product obtained by fermenting milk began to be called cottage cheese. From the word "create".
By the way, such a division in terminology is present only in Russian. In Ukrainian, for example, both rennet cheeses and cottage cheese are called in one word - “cheese”.
There are a huge number of different ways to prepare this dish, many housewives can boast of their own recipe for cottage cheese pancakes. Today we will prepare delicious cheesecakes from dough according to one very successful recipe.
It is undesirable to use too dry cottage cheese for making cheesecakes, since it will not be easy to create a beautiful shape from dough based on it, when shaping they will crumble in your hands. You can, we recently described the process of its manufacture.
To prepare cheesecakes, prepare the following ingredients:
- 500 g of cottage cheese or curd mass.
- 2 chicken eggs.
- 6 art. tablespoons of wheat flour (if you like soft cheesecakes, then reduce the amount of flour).
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar (if desired, the amount of sugar can be changed).
- A pinch of salt
- Vegetable oil.
We place the curd mass in an enameled or ceramic bowl and begin to knead with a fork until a homogeneous mass without lumps is formed. We break the eggs and throw in the sugar, mix everything thoroughly again. Gradually add flour, mixing thoroughly.
As a result, we should get a homogeneous thick mass, we can proceed to the next step, now we need to mold neat cheesecakes. To prevent the dough from sticking to your palms, lightly moisten them with water.
Turn on the stove to medium heat, take a frying pan, pour some sunflower oil into it and heat it well. While the pan is heating, form the first batch of cheese balls from the curd dough.
As soon as the pan is hot, slightly flatten our curd balls and put in the pan. It is necessary to fry the cheesecakes until a golden crust forms, usually it takes about three minutes on each side. Now we prepare the second batch and that further, until we use all the dough. Cooking cheesecakes from 500 g of cottage cheese takes about 40 minutes.
The dish is very tasty to eat with tea. These cottage cheese pancakes can be served with jam or condensed milk, some people like them with cold sour cream and sugar or powdered sugar.
This is a basic cottage cheese pancake recipe, you can always make changes to it to your liking, this will allow you to get your own way of cooking.
