Cottage cheese is the basis of many dishes. It turns out that even those who do not have a special love for this product are happy to eat dishes made from it, and this is an excellent reason to feed your loved ones something healthy and nutritious, because dishes made from cottage cheese are satisfying and at the same time dietary.
In this article we will talk about such a universal dish of all nations as cottage cheese pudding (recipes from different countries have different names, but in general they all have a similar basis - the same cottage cheese). It is on the options and methods of preparing this dessert that we will focus in this article.
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Curd pudding, the recipes for which you will find below, is a delicious and healthy delicacy that can easily be prepared at home. You can please yourself and your household with an exquisite curd dish, which is good for breakfast or an afternoon snack.
The recipe for cottage cheese pudding is somewhat different from the cottage cheese casserole known in the CIS. Some even believe that, in principle, these two dishes are a reflection of each other. But that's not true. Of course, you can mix the ingredients, bake or steam everything and consider it a real pudding. But, according to chefs (meticulous people in particular), pudding is a completely different level of creation, and not a primitive peasant dish.
What to serve with
Regardless of which of the above recipes you like, of course you will want to decorate everything beautifully. I serve curd pudding with any jam, honey or sour cream. Sometimes I even use condensed milk. I can also garnish the pudding with a couple of mint leaves and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Here the flight of your imagination is not limited!
So, you have seen that curd pudding is not only healthy and tasty, but also very easy and quick to prepare. Even a novice housewife can cope with it. In addition, the range of products is not particularly affordable. So try, experiment and please your loved ones.
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Secrets and subtleties of making curd pudding
With raisins or berries, fruits or chocolate, spices or juice, rum or cognac, fruit essence or candied fruits, pumpkin or beets, spinach or nuts, bananas or cocoa... It’s difficult to list all the dish options, and it’s not necessary. In addition, there are no-bake curd puddings - and these are dozens more recipes for one of the “meticulous cooks”. In this article we will focus on the most popular variations of puddings.
Of course, let's not prevaricate and confirm the obvious fact that the base here is close to a cottage cheese casserole. The standard set of ingredients includes semolina, cottage cheese, eggs, rice, sour cream, crackers and milk. Interestingly, puddings, contrary to the general stereotype, can also be salty. Moreover, historical sources often mention the salty version of the dish. You can find references to recipes for pudding with fish, meat and all kinds of vegetables.
In order to prepare a real pudding, and not an ordinary cottage cheese casserole, you should understand the list of rules below.
To make the product fluffy, the egg whites and yolks must be separated from each other. Each product is whipped separately. Next, they need to be connected in series with the remaining components. The whipped egg white is added to the mixture last - it must be mixed in very carefully so that it does not lose its bubbles.
Curd pudding in the oven is prepared in special molds with holes in the middle. Thanks to this, the pudding bakes better. For greater effect, you can use small cake pans.
The pudding should be placed in a half-heated oven. Otherwise, it will instantly become covered with a golden-brown crust, but the inside will remain raw and unbaked. This product falls off quickly when removed from the oven.
The oven needs to be heated to 190°C, the pudding is placed in it, and then the temperature needs to be raised to 220°C.
You should take out the curd pudding cooked in the oven only after it has cooled.
To make baking more elastic, you can add semolina, boiled rice, and stale bread to the dough.
If the recipe calls for semolina, after kneading the dough you need to let it rest for a while (about 30 minutes). This is necessary so that the semolina has time to swell. Thanks to this little trick, you can get an excellent, non-falling form of curd pudding. Children's menus, by the way, often include this dish, so caring mothers prefer to steam it in the microwave or in a water bath.
With chocolate
To prepare delicious curd pudding with chocolate you need:
- 800 g cottage cheese;
- A glass of kefir;
- 100 g semolina;
- 150 g sugar;
- 5 pieces of eggs;
- Baking powder;
- 3 spoons of cocoa;
- vanillin.
To make the pudding tasty and airy, you need to follow the following preparation steps:
- Semolina is poured with kefir and infused for 30 minutes to swell.
- The whites are whipped with sugar until an elastic foam is obtained.
- All ingredients except proteins are mixed in a blender or food processor.
- Then the total mass is manually mixed with proteins.
- The resulting dough is placed in the multicooker bowl and baked for 60 minutes.
- After the signal that the dish is ready, you need to wait 30 minutes and only then open the lid.
- The pudding is cut into portions, poured with condensed milk and strawberry jam and served.
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Ready baked goods can be stored for no more than 72 hours.
To prepare it, it is better to take homemade cottage cheese or make it yourself using homemade fat milk.
If you buy cottage cheese in a store, do not buy a product with a fat content of less than 9%.
Too dry cottage cheese can be diluted with a few spoons of sour cream or kefir.
The cottage cheese used must be no older than 5 days from the date of preparation.
You need to grease the baking dish with butter or vegetable oil (or line it with baking parchment) - this way the pudding will not burn and will stand up better.
The pudding will turn out much tastier if you mix all its components until a smooth, homogeneous mass is obtained and only then add the eggs one by one, separating them into yolks and whites.
So, meet the cavalcade of curd pudding recipes!
Ingredient Selection
To make a dish perfect, you need to choose the right ingredients for it. Let's look at the main ones.
It is best to take homemade cottage cheese. But if this is not possible, then a store-bought one will do. Choose grainy cottage cheese with a fat content of 9%. If it is too dry, you can dilute it with a few tablespoons of kefir or sour cream. In addition, it is desirable that the packaging be hermetically sealed.
Important! Always pay attention to the expiration date of products! Good cottage cheese should last no more than 5 days.
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Steamed curd pudding
Perhaps this is the simplest and fastest recipe for a dish that is a pure classic of prim England. This dietary curd pudding (calorie content is no more than 165 kcal per 100 g) turns out to be quite tender and satisfying.
Cooking time will be approximately one hour.
You will need the following products to prepare dietary steamed curd pudding:
- 400 g of non-grain cottage cheese;
- 100 ml low-fat sour cream;
- 100 g of quality milk;
- 80 g granulated sugar;
- 50 g sifted flour;
- 25 g butter;
- 1 large chicken egg.
Pudding recipe
Ingredients:
- 250 grams of cottage cheese
- 5 yolks
- 120 grams butter
- cup of sour cream
- half a glass of sugar
- vanilla
Sour cream, butter and mashed crackers
5 yolks, half a glass of sugar, grind until white.
Sugar and eggs
Then add a little vanilla, 120 grams of butter, a cup of sour cream and 250 grams of cottage cheese, then mix well.
Eggs, sugar and vanilla
Spread the dish with butter, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, put in the prepared cottage cheese, and place in a hot oven for one hour.
Cottage cheese pudding
You can serve cottage cheese pudding with berries or jam.
Cottage cheese pudding
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Step-by-step preparation
Grind the cottage cheese through a fine sieve (you can twist it through a meat grinder with a fine grid). Place the cottage cheese in a deep container for kneading the dough.
Add flour and sugar to the cottage cheese, mix the products thoroughly.
Separate egg whites and yolks. We immediately put the latter into the dough and mix.
Pour in the milk and stir everything again until a homogeneous mass is formed.
Next we move on to the whites: beat them into a thick standing foam and gradually introduce them into the curd mass. Knead the dough with gentle movements from top to bottom. Place the curd pudding into a greased pan.
If you have a double boiler, then, undoubtedly, it is much better to cook this dish in it. If not, you will have to do a steam bath. To do this, pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. We place the mold with the prepared dough on top, but so that it does not touch the boiling water. Close the mold with a lid and cook the product for about 40 minutes.
The pudding should be served with sour cream. This amazing dish is suitable for dietary and therapeutic nutrition.
Curd pudding in a slow cooker
This is one of the most common options for preparing a delicate and tasty English dessert. Curd pudding in a slow cooker is a great way to usefully recycle cottage cheese from the refrigerator that is about to cease to be relevant for use.
Required Products:
- half a kilo of non-grain cottage cheese;
- 150 ml milk;
- 30 g medium fat sour cream;
- 50 g raw semolina;
- half a glass of sugar;
- a pinch of salt;
- a handful of nuts;
- 2 chicken eggs.
Cooking step by step in a slow cooker
We install an attachment called a “cutting blade” in a food processor. Place the cottage cheese and granulated sugar into the food processor and beat thoroughly until the mass is homogeneous. All sugar grains should break.
Next, add raw semolina with sour cream and grind the mixture again.
Add a pinch of salt and pour in the milk. Scroll everything again and let it brew for about 15 minutes. During this time, the semolina will have time to swell.
Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Immediately stir the yolks into the mixture.
When the semolina swells, beat the egg whites with a mixer until stable peaks appear. After this, we introduce them into the dough and mix all the products in one direction with smooth and slow movements.
Grease the baking pan and place the dough into it.
Place the pudding in the slow cooker, set the “Bake” mode and cook the pudding for about 35 minutes. The specific time will be determined only by the power of your device.
The finished pudding can be served with tea.
Making express pudding with apples
Cut the apples into thin slices and place them on the bottom of a mold that has been previously greased with oil.
Mix sugar with cottage cheese and milk. Puree the mixture with a blender. Add semolina and nuts, mix well.
Beat the eggs with a pinch of salt and add to the curd mixture.
Pour the resulting dough onto the apples placed in the mold.
Bake for 50 minutes at 190°C.
The pudding turns out tender and just melts in your mouth.
The dish is great for breakfast.
How to cook with semolina?
Semolina gives the pudding additional fluffiness and an unusual melting consistency.
You will need:
- 0.6 kg cottage cheese;
- 60 g semolina;
- 150 ml warm milk;
- 3 eggs;
- 150 g sugar;
- 30 g butter.
Cooking stages.
- Unsweetened semolina porridge is prepared using milk. Cool.
- Separately, beat the yolks with half the prepared sugar.
- Porridge and cottage cheese are added to the sweet yolks.
- Beat the whites with a mixer with the remaining sand and add them to the main composition. Stir gently, moving the spoon from bottom to top.
- The mold (or several molds) is greased with oil. Spread the prepared mass.
- Curd pudding with semolina is baked at 180°C for 40–50 minutes.
Curd and berry pleasure
Curd and berry pudding is a delicious, tender, healthy dessert. It is recommended for use by those who suffer from pancreatitis. It takes no more than an hour to prepare. This dessert will be an excellent treat for children.
Curd and berry pudding is a cure for any blues. This easy-to-prepare delicacy won’t take up much of your time and definitely won’t put a strain on your wallet. Pudding ingredients are freely available in any supermarket.
It turns out that this amazing dish is not only tasty, but also healthy: it is recommended to be consumed for pancreatitis.
To make a healthy dessert you will need:
- half a kilo of low-fat cottage cheese;
- 4 pieces of fresh chicken eggs;
- one tablespoon of starch;
- 150 g medium fat sour cream;
- half a glass of granulated sugar;
- a tablespoon of raw semolina;
- fresh or frozen cherries (other berries are also possible) - approximately 250-300 g.
Benefits of cottage cheese
Cottage cheese is a product rich in vitamins and nutrients necessary for the human body and maintaining the normal functioning of all vital systems. It owes its value to its high protein content. In terms of the degree of digestibility by the body, protein is much higher than that found in meat and meat products. Cottage cheese has the following features: rich content of essential amino acids; it is digested rather slowly, so it provides a feeling of fullness for several hours; milk fat contained in cottage cheese and curd products is lighter and is better absorbed than that found in meat, so it can be consumed in reasonable quantities even by those people who suffer from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract; in combination with other products, cottage cheese promotes their better absorption; normalizes intestinal microflora with the help of beneficial bacteria in its composition; the presence of calcium in cottage cheese helps in the formation and strengthening of the skeleton, bone tissue and teeth in children, and also slows down the process of their destruction in older people; lowers blood cholesterol levels; normalizes the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract; Cottage cheese is also very useful for pregnant and lactating women.
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