Diet cheesecakes are a tasty and healthy dish that helps you recharge your batteries during breakfast. It is generally accepted that diet cheesecakes are far from the most suitable snack for those who want to lose weight. This is due to their high calorie and fat content. But when using dietary products in the cooking process, for example, cottage cheese, dietary cheesecakes can be included in the diet of a person who is losing weight.
The benefits of dietary cheesecakes
Cottage cheese, made from fermented milk products, is the most useful. Easy digestibility has a positive effect on the work of almost all human organs without exception.
The benefits of cottage cheese are known:
- Strengthening human bones due to high calcium content.
- Restoring and improving metabolism, which helps the body get rid of excess fat and excess fluid.
- Helps stabilize a person’s condition with hypertension.
- Does not allow the liver and kidneys to stop working.
- Stabilizes the microflora of the gastrointestinal tract.
High-quality homemade cottage cheese increases the calorie content of the final product to 300 kcal per 100 g of product. But a base product whose fat content does not exceed 5% can reduce the amount of calories. In this case, the calorie content will drop to 230 kcal per 100 g.
Is it possible to eat cheesecakes while losing weight?
Diet cheesecakes are included in many diets that include cottage cheese in general. Therefore, there is no need to refuse cheesecakes under any circumstances. The task is different - to make a dietary dish.
The importance of dinner as the last meal
Dinner is an equally important meal of the day, along with breakfast and lunch. A healthy break between dinner and breakfast should last no more than 10-12 hours, otherwise you risk getting a stomach ulcer or other gastrointestinal disease.
Therefore, nutritionists recommend not giving up dinner outright, but just starting to eat the right foods.
Instead of starving yourself, you can prepare a light and quick dinner, for example, from fresh vegetables or fruits.
Such dishes will help not only protect your health, but also remove extra pounds. Dinner should be no later than 2-3 hours before bedtime, so the rule “don’t eat after 6” is also incorrect.
Tips before cooking
- It is better to cook cheesecakes in the oven. Thus, vegetable oil, which adds up to 90 kcal to the dish, will be excluded from the dish.
- To make dietary cheesecakes more airy , cook them in the oven at a temperature of no more than 180°Ϲ
- If you are going to use oil, then take olive oil , which does not emit carcinogens.
- Eliminate dried fruits and nuts from the dish , which also add extra calories.
- Prepare cheesecakes from cottage cheese with a fat content of less than 5%; it is better to use zero fat content.
Without flour and semolina in the oven
- Cooking time: 35 minutes.
- Number of servings: 4 persons.
- Calorie content of the dish: 112 kcal.
- Purpose: for tea / for afternoon tea / for breakfast.
- Cuisine: Russian.
- Difficulty of preparation: medium.
To prepare cheesecakes without flour and semolina in the oven, you only need to take dry curd. Otherwise, the products will fall apart. This recipe uses bananas to add density to the dough. They also add a pinch of starch. The result is a denser dough that can be spooned onto the pan. To ensure that it is also homogeneous, you should use a blender or mixer.
Ingredients:
- vanillin - to taste;
- egg – 2 pcs.;
- salt – 1 pinch;
- banana – 1 pc.;
- starch – 1 pinch;
- cottage cheese – 320 g.
Cooking method:
- Using a blender, beat the cottage cheese with banana and add the rest of the ingredients.
- Take muffin tins, grease them and fill them with the resulting dough.
- Bake until done at 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
Cheesecake recipes
In a frying pan
Ingredients:
- low-fat cottage cheese - 400 g
- granulated sugar - 100 g
- flour - 150 -175 g
- salt
- vegetable oil - 150 ml
- chicken egg - 3 pcs.
Classic delicious cheesecakes can be prepared using this step-by-step recipe:
- Place the cottage cheese in a large bowl. Mash thoroughly with a fork or mashed potato masher. There should be no lumps.
- Add eggs , stir thoroughly.
- Add sugar. For those who like sweeter dishes, you can increase the amount of granulated sugar. Mix well so that the structure is homogeneous.
- Then you need to add flour (175g). If there is not enough flour, you need to add a little.
- Roll the curd mass into small balls. Bread thoroughly in remaining flour.
- Heat a frying pan (no need to heat it too hot - the cheesecakes will burn) with vegetable oil. Place cheesecakes in portions so that they do not touch. Fry on both sides for five minutes each until golden brown.
- Place the finished cheesecakes on a paper towel to remove excess oil. Then arrange into portioned plates and serve.
In a slow cooker
Ingredients:
- low-fat cottage cheese - 205 g;
- sugar or sugar substitute - 11 g;
- semolina - 14 g;
- vanilla sugar - a pinch;
- vegetable oil - 15 ml;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
Preparation progress:
- Place all ingredients into a blender bowl. Beat until combined to form a smooth mass.
- Coat the multicooker bowl with vegetable oil.
- Using a not very large, comfortable spoon, scoop up the resulting mass, based on the fact that you should get five cheesecakes. Place the mixture into the bowl so that they do not touch each other.
- There is no need to degrease the cottage cheese, since we immediately took the cottage cheese we needed. Enable the Multicook program. Set the cooking temperature to 120°Ϲ. Cook cheesecakes for 12-14 minutes on both sides.
- When the timer finishes, remove the cheesecakes onto a plate and serve.
In the oven
Ingredients:
- sugar - 65 g;
- salt;
- cinnamon - on the tip of a knife;
- cardamom - 1 box;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- cottage cheese - 505 g;
- flour - 130 g;
- vegetable oil - 15 ml;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
Preparation progress:
- Beat the egg into a bowl. Add granulated sugar, salt, spices. Stir.
- Add 505 g of cottage cheese into the egg mixture. Stir until smooth.
- Form the balls, flatten them and give them a round shape.
- Grease a baking sheet with oil. If desired, you can cover it with parchment. Place the molded cheesecakes, leaving space between them.
- Place the baking sheet in the oven, preheated to 180°Ϲ, and cook the dish for 20 - 25 minutes.
- Remove the baking sheet from the oven. Transfer the finished fluffy cheesecakes to a dish and serve. Separately, if desired, you can serve sour cream.
Without flour
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 205 g;
- granulated sugar - to taste;
- vanilla sugar - 5 g;
- salt - 3 g;
- vegetable oil;
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.
Preparation progress:
- Remove the eggs from the refrigerator in advance so that they reach room temperature. Separate the yolk from the white.
- Add salt to the yolks in a bowl. Beat until stable peaks appear.
- Without stopping whisking, add granulated sugar to the bowl. Beat for about five minutes.
- Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve. Add to bowl with yolks. Mix well.
- Carefully combine the resulting mass with the beaten egg whites. Add vanilla sugar. Mix.
- The dough for cheesecakes should have a consistency similar to thick sour cream.
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Fry the cheesecakes in portions for 6 minutes on each side until golden brown.
- Remove finished products to a paper towel to remove excess oil. Transfer to serving plates and serve.
From cottage cheese and semolina
Ingredients:
- flour - 50 g;
- semolina - 25 g;
- salt;
- sugar;
- soda (slaked with lemon);
- low-fat cottage cheese - 205 g;
- egg - 1 pc.
Preparation progress:
- In a large bowl, combine cottage cheese, semolina, flour and sugar. To stir thoroughly.
- Then beat the yolk into the resulting mass.
- Beat the egg whites with salt. Add it to the cottage cheese along with soda slaked with lemon juice.
- Divide the curd dough into equal parts. Form cheesecakes.
- Next, you can fry them in a frying pan with vegetable oil for 6 minutes on both sides. You can also bake them in the oven at 180°Ϲ for 20 minutes.
From cottage cheese and pumpkin
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 405 g;
- pumpkin - 255 g;
- raisins - 105 g;
- flour - 365 g;
- honey - 49 g;
- butter - 49 g;
- baking powder - 4 g;
- salt - 2 g;
- vegetable oil - 60 ml;
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.
Preparation progress:
- Wash the pumpkin, process it, remove seeds and internal fibers. Grind the pulp with a coarse grater.
- Dissolve butter and honey in a heated frying pan.
- Add grated pumpkin to the pan. Fry for 6 minutes. Cool slightly.
- In a deep bowl, combine cottage cheese, salt and beat in an egg. Beat with a mixer.
- Add fried pumpkin to the mixture. Beat again with a mixer.
- Add the twice-sifted flour into the bowl in a thin stream.
- Knead the dough. It will stick to your hands a little.
- Wash the raisins. Scald with boiling water for a few minutes. Dry. Add to the dough.
- Form cheesecakes. Fry them on both sides for 5 - 7 minutes in a frying pan in heated vegetable oil. The fire should be high at first, then it should be reduced to low and cover the frying pan with a lid.
- Place the finished cheesecakes on a plate and serve.
From cottage cheese and banana
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 505 kg;
- semolina - 600 g;
- dried apricots - 55 g;
- egg white—2 pcs.;
- bananas - ½ pcs.
Preparation progress:
- Pour cold water over the dried apricots for half an hour. Then drain the water and cut the dried apricots into quarters.
- In a large bowl, mix half a banana, half a kilo of cottage cheese, two egg whites, semolina and chopped dried apricots. Hang everything carefully to form a homogeneous mass.
- Form small balls. Flatten them.
- Accelerate the oven to 180°Ϲ.
- Place the cheesecakes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. They should not touch each other.
- Cook for half an hour until done. The results are very tasty cheesecakes.
From cottage cheese and chocolate
Ingredients:
- dry cottage cheese - 405 g;
- sugar - 125 g;
- flour - 81 g;
- chocolate - 105 g;
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.
Preparation progress:
- In a bowl, combine cottage cheese, egg and sugar.
- Add twice-sifted flour in a thin stream. Knead the plastic dough.
- Divide the dough into parts. Flatten it a little. Place a piece of chocolate in the center. Lightly press it into the dough. Form a cheesecake, covering the chocolate completely.
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Place cheesecakes in portions. Cook over moderate heat, covered, for 4 minutes. After this, turn it over to the other side and let it stand for another 4 minutes. Cover again and cook for 3 minutes.
Made from cottage cheese and corn flour
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 655 g;
- corn flour - 85 g;
- sugar - to taste;
- flour (breading);
- soda slaked with lemon - 3 g;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs.
Preparation progress:
- Place the eggs in a bowl. Beat with a fork or mixer.
- Pour the double sifted flour into the bowl and mix well. Add cottage cheese and sugar. Mix everything thoroughly.
- The dough should be soft and not stick to your hands.
- Form the dough into balls. Bread them in flour. Flatten slightly.
- Pour vegetable oil into a heated frying pan. Place cheesecakes in portions. Cook for five minutes on one side. Then turn over and cook for another three minutes with the lid on the other side over moderate heat. Place the finished cheesecakes on a paper towel to remove excess oil. Then serve.
With oatmeal and without flour
Ingredients:
- low-fat cottage cheese - 205 g;
- rolled oats—85 g;
- granulated sugar—74 g;
- baking powder - 6 g;
- butter;
- powdered sugar;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
Preparation progress:
- Place the cottage cheese in a bowl and mash it with a puree masher. Add granulated sugar and beat a little more.
- Add an egg to the cottage cheese. Stir thoroughly. You can beat it (optional). The dough should have small lumps.
- Grind oatmeal into crumbs. To do this, you can use a coffee grinder or a blender with a small bowl. Add the ground flakes to the curd mass along with baking powder. Mix well.
- Place the resulting dough in a warm place - the flakes should swell. This will take an hour.
- Form flat cheesecakes 1 cm thick. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Brush the cheesecakes with butter on the surface.
- Place the baking sheet at 160° for half an hour.
- Remove the baking sheet. Cool the cheesecakes a little and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve.
With oat bran
Ingredients:
- oat bran - 155 g;
- low-calorie cottage cheese - 505 g;
- salt - to taste;
- ground pepper - to taste;
- paprika - to taste;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
Preparation progress:
- Pass the cottage cheese through a sieve into a bowl.
- Add eggs and spices to it. Mix thoroughly.
- Slowly, in a thin stream, add the twice-sifted flour.
- Form into balls and flatten them. Fry on both sides in butter in a non-stick frying pan.
- After this, cover the pan with a lid. Simmer the cheesecakes for five minutes.
- Sauce: half a glass of natural yogurt mixed with chopped herbs.
Apple curds with carrots
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 255 g;
- semolina - 5 g;
- sugar - 5 g;
- cinnamon;
- apples - 2 pcs.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- egg white - 2 pcs.
Preparation progress:
- Wash and process the apples. Grate with a medium grater.
- Wash and process carrots. Grate on a medium grater.
- Beat the whites. Add cottage cheese, semolina, sugar, carrots, apples and cinnamon to them. Mix well. Form cheesecakes.
- Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil.
- Place prepared cheesecakes on a frying sheet. Place in the oven.
- Cook at 180°Ϲ for a quarter of an hour.
- Serve with sweet sauce or jam.
Vanilla
Ingredients:
- sweetener - 4 tablets;
- baking powder - 5 g;
- vanillin—3 g;
- wholemeal flour or oat bran - 51 g;
- low-calorie cottage cheese - 505 g;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
Preparation progress:
- In a deep bowl, combine the following products: cottage cheese, flour (bran), vanilla sugar, baking powder, chicken eggs. Mix.
- Dissolve the sweetener in 300 ml of boiling water. When the tablets have completely dispersed, pour the resulting water into the flour-curd mass. Knead well.
- Place 2 tablespoons of the resulting dough into portioned molds. Place in an oven preheated to 180°Ϲ.
- Preparing these tender cheesecakes takes 20 minutes. Readiness is determined by the golden color on the surface.
With berry sauce
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 505 g;
- semolina - 105 g;
- powdered sugar - 121 g;
- fresh berries (pieces of fruit) - 101 g;
- flour - 105 g;
- vegetable oil;
- berries - 161 g;
- sugar - 90 g;
- starch - 24 g;
- eggs - 1 pc.
Preparation progress:
- Mix cottage cheese, large eggs, semolina thoroughly.
- Add sugar and berries (100 g) to the mixture. Stir again.
- Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan.
- Form round cheesecakes. Breaded in flour. Fry on both sides until golden brown.
- Make the sauce: wash the berries, dry them, put them in a saucepan, sprinkle with sugar, add half a glass of water. Boil over moderate heat.
- Add starch dissolved in a couple of tablespoons of cold water. Cook over low heat until thickened.
- Decorate the finished cheesecakes with berries and pour sauce over them.
No eggs
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 505 g;
- semolina - 101 g;
- sugar - 121 g;
- vanilla - to taste;
- flour - 60 g;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation progress:
- Place the cottage cheese in a bowl. Add sugar and grind the cottage cheese.
- Add semolina and vanilla to the bowl.
- The dough should not be liquid.
- Make balls from the dough. Bread them in flour.
- Form cheesecakes.
- Cook cheesecakes in a well-heated frying pan for 6 minutes on each side. Serve.
Chocolate treat
During a diet, chocolate is included in the list of prohibited foods. You are only allowed to eat one slice, and then very rarely. But you can get gastronomic pleasure by making chocolate cheesecakes.
Ingredients:
- low-fat cottage cheese – 500 g;
- cocoa powder – 2 table. spoons;
- dietary fructose – ½ table. spoons;
- chicken egg – 2 pieces;
- rice flour – 1 cup.
Preparation:
- Grind the cottage cheese until a mass of homogeneous consistency is obtained.
- In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and combine them with the cottage cheese.
- Add fructose, cocoa powder and sifted rice flour.
- Mix everything vigorously again.
- Make small cakes and place them in a heat-resistant form.
- We will bake at a temperature of 180° until a golden crust appears.
- Coffee cheesecakes go well with any sweet and sour jam.
A few rules
- Use low-fat or low-fat cottage cheese.
- It is more convenient to beat the cottage cheese with a blender. You can add a small amount of low-fat yogurt to the mixture.
- It is better to replace vegetable oil with olive oil. It is optimal to cook by steaming or in the oven without using oil.
- Replace flour with bran.
- Use a sugar substitute.
Bon appetit.
Alexandrova Anastasia
Nutrition and healthy lifestyle specialist and author of myfitnesblog.com. For many years, she has successfully helped women and men lose weight and maintain a beautiful figure.
Apple curds with carrots
By mixing cottage cheese, apples and carrots, you can get a tasty and healthy product. And thanks to the absence of flour and proper frying, the dish turns out to be very dietary.
250gr. mix cottage cheese with 4 tbsp. l. semolina and 1 egg. Knead until smooth, add finely grated two apples and one large carrot. For sweetness, add a little cinnamon and 5 g. vanilla sugar. You can also include 2 tbsp in the mixture. spoons of sugar or equivalent volume of sweetener. Apple diet cheesecakes with cottage cheese and carrots are baked in the oven in small molds for about 15-20 minutes.
Thank you for your attention! Watch your figure and bon appetit!
What not to eat for dinner and why
Flour
Sugar, together with high-grade flour, raises blood sugar quite well, however, after sweet buns or pies, it also drops at lightning speed, and the feeling of hunger comes very quickly.
Another disadvantage is that it is thanks to refined foods that fat is deposited on the hips and abdomen. Therefore, there is practically no benefit in such products, unless you are a fan of starch, of course.
Red meat
For dinner, it is not advisable to eat heavy foods such as fried red meat. This product contains a large amount of tyrosine, which increases the adrenaline ratio in the blood.
Red meat is best consumed in the daytime, for breakfast or lunch, so that by the evening the adrenaline coefficient returns to normal and allows you to fall asleep peacefully without any problems.
An alternative to red meat for dinner would be poultry and dietary fish.
Smoked products and sausages
These foods contain the antioxidant teramine. Thanks to it, norepinephrine is produced, which contributes to the formation of nerve impulses.
A large number of impulses increases brain activity, so it can be difficult for a person to fall asleep. In addition, you should remember about the excessive calorie content, as well as the harmfulness of smoked and sausage products.
Most often, people eat refined rice, which can be stored in body fat. But the fact is that this product contains countless amounts of fast carbohydrates. Therefore, avoid such cereals during dinner.
Chocolate
Eating even a small piece of chocolate during dinner can ruin your figure and your well-being. Chocolates usually contain excess sugar and caffeine. It is better to eat sweets in the morning and afternoon.
Nuts
Although nuts are recommended as a healthy snack, eating them for dinner is not very healthy. This product contains a large number of calories. It is better to eat nuts and other high-calorie foods long before your last meal.
Sweet fruits
Fruits such as grapes, peaches, nectarines, melon or banana undoubtedly have their benefits, however, they are high in glucose. You can replace sweet fruits with dried fruits, and it is better to eat fresh ones during the day. At the same time, if you replace the sweet bun with a slice of watermelon or melon, there will naturally be more benefits.
Hot sauces
Spicy foods, and in particular hot sauces, are foods that kill sleep. Also, in the afternoon, the gastrointestinal tract is less active, so there is a chance of getting heartburn after eating this type of food.
Fast food
Everyone knows about the dangers of burgers and other fast food, so it is better to try to avoid this food altogether. Such food is harmful not only in the evening.
Typically, a standard portion of fast food replaces the daily calorie intake, which leads to the storage of excess fat in the body. And by eating a couple of hamburgers before bed, you can get a heaviness in your stomach for the whole night.