Juicy and lush cottage cheese casserole - one of the favorite dishes of many adults and children. Properly cooked casserole happy to eat even people indifferent to cottage cheese. Perhaps that is why so love to cook casseroles in institutions. For many, the taste of "kindergarten" cheese casserole becomes a reference, although to achieve it at home can be difficult.

These different casseroles

What made cottage cheese casserole? Of course, cottage cheese. As for the other ingredients, then the list can vary to infinity by changing the taste of the dish beyond recognition. Thus, in the cottage cheese casserole can be added:

• various dairy products (milk, yogurt, fermented baked milk, yogurt, sour cream);
• different types of flour (wheat, rice, oatmeal, pancakes, potato, corn, etc.);
• different kinds of cereals (mostly grits and oatmeal, rice and even buckwheat);
• fresh fruit or berries (apples, pears, plums, cherries, strawberries, blueberries, etc.);
• dried fruit (raisins often, but possible options);
• nuts (hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts, cashews, for the fans - peanuts);
• vegetables (pumpkin, carrots, potatoes, etc.);
• greenery.

The most popular is probably the sweet curd pudding with raisins - the one in which children are treated gardens. Somehow, prepare a similar dish at home is far from all: instead of a lush and juicy casserole turns flat pancake is too thick, "rubber" consistency. However, in compliance with simple rules, you can cook a casserole is wrong.

Simple secrets of cooking the classic casserole

For casseroles should take a fresh cheese. Better if it will be sour, but not bland - so take vivid flavor casseroles. Those who are on a diet, can use low-fat cottage cheese, but it tastes best casserole cheese average fat content. Needless to fresh water or low-fat cottage cheese can "refine", adding a bit of sour cream. Egg casserole give lightness, and also serve as a binder. Fresh eggs whipped with sugar, vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt, then add them to the cottage. It is best to use a mixer.

To casserole was obtained juicy and retains its shape, it is not necessary to add the flour and semolina. Semolina mixed with cheese, eggs and sugar, if necessary, to the mixture is added a little milk or yogurt Kefir: a unique drink for health and harmony   - Future casserole should have the consistency of liquid sour cream. After this casserole sure to let stand at least half an hour at room temperature - in the meantime semolina swells.

Instead of dry cereal can be successfully used on cooked milk porridge, which, for example, left from breakfast. In this case, casserole before baking enough to stand ten minutes. Casserole cooked with semolina, distinguished by a special tenderness and perfectly retains its shape. At least in the casserole add soaked in hot water (or better - in hot tea) raisins. Now you mix the batter and pour it into a baking dish.

Bake the casserole should be heated to one hundred and eighty degree oven in a form that greased. At the end of cooking, you can sprinkle a little sugar on top of casserole - it will provide a rosy caramel crust.

To prepare casseroles half a kilogram of cheese must take two eggs, four or five tablespoons of sugar, four tablespoons of semolina with a slide (or five or six tablespoons of cooked semolina), a bag of vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt. If the cheese is too dry, the casserole must add a little milk, yogurt or sour cream. If too moist curds have to increase the number of semolina.

Served curd pudding warm or chilled, with sour cream Smetana: untold riches of Russian cuisine , Condensed milk, whipped cream, jam or sweet milk sauce. A breakfast fit for a festive and thick sauce of melted chocolate.

Fine accents

When cooking casseroles usual mastered, I want to try something new. For example, in addition to conventional flavoring vanilla Vanilla: sweet tenderness   You can use cinnamon, lemon or orange peel, ginger and nutmeg. Instead of raisins you can take other dried fruits such as dried apricots, prunes, dried peaches or dried cherries. Dried fruit should be washed thoroughly and pour boiling water or hot tea. If casserole is intended for adults only, to fill the dried fruit can be used aromatic alcohol.

You can cook the curd pudding with fresh fruit. The most commonly used apples. Thin plates of apples are put on top and sprinkled with sugar. And you can add to the dough for quiches berries - get a tasty and trendy dessert. The berries before adding to casseroles should be washed, dried and roll in starch.

Unusual, but very tasty additive to cheese casserole - chocolate. Moreover, milk or dark chocolate can grate or chop and melt the white chocolate is better. Chocolate Flakes or melted chocolate mixed with cream cheese just before baking, and regular cottage cheese casserole turns into an exquisite dessert.

Yogurt as an alternative to cream cheese

If the cheese was not at hand, the delicious pudding can be cooked without this essential ingredient. Similarly, the recipe is often used by the inhabitants of countries where it is impossible to buy the cheese. Replace it can be low-fat sour cream or yogurt ottsezhenny. One hundred grams of plain yogurt should take one egg, one tablespoon of jam and incomplete teaspoon of starch. All the ingredients are whipped and baked at a temperature of two hundred degrees.

This dessert has a very delicate texture and flavor of this cheese casserole. It is best to bake it in a batch tins to browning.

Maria Bykov

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