Making cheese cakes is easy and tasty

Cheesecakes are loved by children and adults. This simple dish is tasty and healthy. Some call them cottage cheese, because their basis is cottage cheese. But they were nicknamed syrniki back in ancient Russia, when ordinary cottage cheese was called cheese. So this dish has a long history and it only makes it tastier. You can make cheesecakes in different ways. And although the main ingredient remains unchanged - it is cottage cheese, but otherwise, you can turn on imagination and prepare a dish for every taste - sweet, with fruit, unsweetened, pour ketchup or mayonnaise. Most often they are fried in oil, but sometimes baked in the oven or steamed. There are a lot of variations on the theme of cheesecakes. Let's learn how to cook really tasty cheesecakes.

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How to choose the right products?

To cheesecakes turned out delicious, you need to know how to choose the right products.

Oil

Which oil is best for frying such snacks? It all depends on what you want to get on the output:

• Usually, for cooking such products, vegetable oil is taken. Do not regret it; pour more into the pan. Fry the pancakes on a small fire.
• For diet syrniki it is better to take olive oil.
• If you want a golden crust on your cottage cheese, add some butter.

Important! At the end, put the finished product on a paper towel that absorbs excess fat.

Cottage cheese

How to choose the right base for such a seemingly simple dish?

• Best syrniki are obtained from a product with a fat content of 6-9%. From fatter cottage cheese, they can fall apart when frying.
• If you come across dry cottage cheese, do not worry, add sour cream, kefir or milk.
• An expired and sour product is better not to use - you just ruin a delicious dish.
• If you didn’t have the right foundation at hand, but there is kefir, then you can make homemade cottage cheese. Cut a hole in the bag and put the bag of kefir in the oven for an hour and a half at a temperature of 80 degrees.

Important! To make the dish soft and tender, pass the curd mass through a meat grinder, blender or sieve.

What should be the dough?

It is not recommended to add baking powder or soda to the dough for such pancakes so that it increases in volume. The dough for cheesecakes should be thick and heavy.

Eggs:

• For this dish, eggs should not be beaten with a mixer, as excess air is not needed here. When the dough is heated, steam forms, which loosens the dough. If there is a lot of air, then the dough will swell, and then settle. Mix eggs and cottage cheese with a wooden spatula.
• Do not add more eggs than specified in the recipe. Excess eggs will lead to the fact that the dough will spread and it will not work out to make normal cheesecakes out of it.

Important! One egg goes to a pound of the main product.

Sugar

Excess sugar is not good for this delicious dish. If it is too much, then the cheesecakes will burn and spread during frying. If you are a lover of sweets, then it is better to sprinkle the finished dish with powdered sugar or syrup.

Flour

For such a dish, it is best to take wheat flour or semolina. Semka will give syrniki extraordinary softness:

• If you like tight cakes, put a little more flour, if not, a little less.
• If your cottage cheese is dry, add less flour.

Which pan is better to fry?

A cast iron skillet is ideal for such a thing. At the same time, the thicker it has a bottom, the better. Cover the pan with a lid when frying, and you will get soft cheesecakes with a small crust.

Diet cheesecakes

If you have problems with excess weight or cholesterol, then you can prepare a diet dish:

• Replace regular oil with olive oil - this will give a new taste to the old dish, make it more dietary.
• Pancakes from low-fat cottage cheese turn out low-calorie, but at the same time a little dry. But this can be fixed with fat-free sour cream.
• You can bake cheese cakes in the oven using silicone molds. And you can cook them in a double boiler, however, then they will be more like dumplings.

Now that you know how and from which foods cheesecakes are delicious, we will go directly to the recipes.

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Classic cheesecakes

You will need 500 g of 9% cottage cheese, 1 egg, half a glass of flour, 2 tablespoons of sugar, one fourth of a bag of vanillin.

So, let's begin:

• Put the base in a bowl, add the egg. Stir the mass with a wooden spatula.
• Separately mix sugar, flour, vanillin.
• Add gradually to the mass, mix thoroughly until a homogeneous thick mass is obtained.
• Pour a little flour onto the board, lay out a small piece of dough, mold a ball, and add it.
• Thus blind the cheesecakes from the whole dough.
• Pour oil into a pan, put on medium heat. Put the cheesecakes into the heated oil, leaving a space between them.

Important! Do not spare oil, pour a lot, fritters should float in it.

• Fry each side until golden.
• Put the curd on the plates and let them cool a little.

A delicious and nutritious dish is ready!

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Cheesecakes with fruits and berries

Such fritters with fruits and berries are very tasty. Many fruits are suitable for this - apples, bananas, cherries, blueberries, raspberries, currants. If the fruits are sour, you can sprinkle them with sugar a little.

Cherry Cheesecakes Recipe

For this you will need 200 grams of fresh or frozen cherries, 500 grams of 9% cottage cheese, 1 egg, 200 grams of flour, 140 grams of sugar, 200 grams of sour cream. Fry syrniki need in vegetable oil.

Order of preparation:

1. Wash the berries and remove the seeds. Frozen food must first be thawed.
2. Mix cottage cheese with cherry using a blender.
3. Put the egg and sugar in the curd mass.
4. Gradually add flour. Knead the dough and mold round cottage cheese from it.
5. Fry the buns in a pan.

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The recipe for “drunk” syrniki with raisins and walnuts

For such a dish you will need 50 g of raisins, 2 tablespoons of cognac, 200 grams of walnuts, 500 grams of cottage cheese, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of flour, 1 tablespoon of semolina, 2 tablespoons of sugar.

Here's how to cook them:

1. Soak the raisins for 15 minutes in cognac.
2. Grind nuts.
3. Remove the raisins and dry it. To do this, put it on a napkin.
4. Put the cottage cheese in a bowl, add the egg, then flour, semolina, sugar.
5. Knead the mixture.
6. Add nuts and raisins.
7. Fry over medium heat until golden brown.

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No eggs

Some people are allergic to eggs, so we offer them a way to make cheesecakes without eggs delicious. To do this, you need to take wet cottage cheese, not dry, otherwise - your cottage cheese will fall apart.

You will need a pound of cottage cheese, 4-5 tablespoons of flour, 3 tablespoons of sugar, a little salt, sour cream and frying oil. If desired, you can add raisins and nuts to the dough.

Cooking is not unlike other recipes:

1. Mix cottage cheese with sugar, salt, flour. Add raisins and nuts. Soak raisins in boiling water. Knead the dough.
2. Form cottage cheese from the dough.
3. Fry them in a pan until golden brown.

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In the oven

This is a diet dish, as it is cooked without oil. You can bake simply on a baking sheet, can be laid out in silicone molds.

Important! If the cottage cheese is dry, then add only flour, if wet, then add semolina, as indicated in the recipe.

You will need 400 grams of cottage cheese, 2 tablespoons of semolina, 4-5 tablespoons of flour, an egg, 3 tablespoons of sugar, sour cream.

Cooking:

1. Mix cottage cheese with semolina, egg, sugar and knead the dough. Add flour.
2. Blind the cottage cheese and lay them on a baking sheet, which is previously greased with oil.
3. Lubricate each cake thickly with sour cream.
4. Bake for half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.

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Lviv syrnik

For this delicious dish you will need a pound of fat cottage cheese, half a glass of sugar, 4 eggs, 100 grams of butter, one lemon zest, one tablespoon of semolina and a bag of vanilla. Optionally, add nuts and raisins. For the glaze you need to take 3 tablespoons of milk and the same amount of sugar, 30 grams of butter, 2 tablespoons of cocoa.

Here's what we do with all of this:

1. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve or use a blender.
2. Separate the yolks and beat them with sugar. Add grated lemon zest, semolina, cottage cheese and butter. Mix the dough well - this can be done with a mixer.
3. Beat the whites and add them to the dough.
4. Add raisins and nuts.
5. Prepare a baking dish - lay it with parchment and grease with oil.
6. Put the dough and bake in the oven for 50-60 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
7. When the bun has cooled, remove it from the mold.
8. Prepare the icing: melt the butter, mix with sugar, add milk and cocoa. Cook a couple of minutes and turn it off.
9. Fill the cooled round with glaze.

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Helpful hints:

• Preparations can be made in advance. Prepare the dough according to your favorite recipe and make cottage cheese. Put them on a floured board and put them in the freezer. Now at any time you can get them and please yourself and loved ones with a delicious dish.
• Putting the cottage cheese on a plate, do not stack them on top of each other. So they quickly damp and lose a crisp.

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In this article, we told you all about how to make delicious cheesecakes. We hope that these tips and ideas were enough for you so that in the near future you can diversify your home diet with healthy and nutritious food.