Cottage cheese is very healthy and should be eaten by children and grown-ups on a daily basis. It is what our body needs, especially at breakfast. Calcium. Vitamins. Energy for the day ahead.
Lately I have been very keen on learning different recipes, cottage cheeses based.
I am a big dairy products consumer, and my husband comes from a waste culture of dairy products. Every time I go to Ukraine, I am impressed by the amount and variety of dairy products. Children grow up with daily tvaroh and smetana (sour cream ). I grew up like this as well, as I am coming from a part of Romania which borders Ukraine, and the culture is very similar.
What I baked lately is a simple cottage cheese cake, made from eggs (2), cream (2 spoons), sugar/honey, a bit of flour (2 spoons), baking powder and of course cottage cheese (about 500g). I do bake mostly based on my feeling of the batter and less precision in the quantities. So I ask you please...to trust your instinct.
On the bottom of a baking tray I greased with butter and layered some bread crumbs or crackers. You can add raisins or cranberries to the cake.
You will bake for about 30 min at 180 degrees. Lower the temperature if it gets baked to fast.
At the end you can serve it with cream and jam or honey. It should look something like this...
It is quick and easy. Max 50 minutes to make it from scratch.
Another recipe which I have not tried yet, but it is on "to do" this week, is Syrniki...which are some kind of pancakes but thicker and with a lot of cottage cheese. My only problem with them is that they come fried. And I am trying to avoid frying as much as possible. But ...I can use very little oil, and a very good non stick frying pan.
You will use about : 500g cheese, 4 eggs, about 100g flour-or less, 3 spoons of sugar-or less, salt, baking powder, and raisins if you want.
This becomes a very thick dough which you can form in your hand with little flour, small little pancakes. You fry them on each side about 35-40 seconds. You serve them warm, with of course sour cream and jam.
This is how they look :
Yes, they are delicious :)
Pancakes, come in different shapes and forms. And these particular little ones are called Oladuski. Super easy peasy to make...
1 egg, kefir 1-2 tbsp, 1-2 tbsp melted butter, vanilla, salt, 1 tbsp flour, 2tbsp sugar, baking powder.
Mix the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients separately. You should fold the wet ingredients into the dry ones, and mix until there are no more lumps. There should not be any lumps. You fry them on both sides, under a lid.
Here they are :
Another thing you could do, and always use it as a very simple, easy to make breakfast, tea time snack or even desert. is a cottage cheese loaf. It is a simple cheesecake, without all the fuss. Basically mix eggs, cottage cheese (you can use a creamier one) sugar, a bit of flour, you can even add lemon zest and juice, sugar as much as you want, maybe some yogurt or some cream, some butter melted and cooled. You mix them all, place the batter in a loaf form and bake for 30 at 160-180 degrees.
It is really delicious and something really handy to have at home. Cottage cheese is very healthy and we should all go back to roots and try to use it more. I know it is a bit more effort than simple milk and cereals, but we have forgotten that food should not be simple&fast. It should be a process that needs and effort and you will appreciate the results much more.
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