From soft fat-free cottage cheese, you can cook a lot of tasty and healthy products. Among them - not only the usual sweet pastries, but also a variety of snacks.
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Not everyone loves the taste of cottage cheese in its purest form. But he is one of the ten most healthy products for health! It supplies the body with a lot of useful trace elements: magnesium, fluorine, potassium sodium and, of course, calcium (100 grams of the product contains at least 12 g of this substance necessary for healthy teeth, hair and bones). It is also rich in vitamins of several groups at once: A, B, PP. Soft fat-free cottage cheese is especially useful. It does not add extra pounds and is ideal for preparing a huge variety of simple and very tasty dishes.
The nuances of cottage cheese recipes
Several thousand dishes are known to modern cooking that can be made from this dietary product. It is considered very unpretentious, but there are several tricks that you need to remember when preparing a dish of cottage cheese:
- If you cook cakes with cottage cheese, you need to remember an important rule: immediately after adding the flour, you need to quickly knead the dough, give it the desired shape and send it to the oven. Otherwise, it will quickly wind up and become stiff.
- Even if you follow the recommendations in the recipe exactly step by step, the final result may slightly differ from the sample in appearance or consistency. Do not worry, such differences will not hurt the taste.
- It is not necessary to strictly follow the proportions of sugar and salt written in the recipes. Low-fat cottage cheese of different companies may have different tastes, and all people have different preferences. If it seems to you that the dish is not sweet or salty enough, it is better to add the missing ingredient.
Pancakes with low fat cottage cheese
Tender curd pancakes are an ideal variant of a hearty and at the same time healthy diet breakfast. They can be eaten with sour cream, honey, jam, sugar. Or do not add anything - their excellent taste allows it. Making pancakes with soft cottage cheese is very simple. The ingredients necessary for them are in every kitchen, and the total cooking time (along with frying) does not exceed 20-30 minutes.
You will need:
- 1/3 packs of fat-free cottage cheese;
- half a glass of kefir;
- rubs a glass of milk;
- 1 egg
- half a teaspoon of salt;
- 1 teaspoon of sugar;
- ¾ teaspoon of soda;
- and a half cup of flour.
First, the cottage cheese must be thoroughly ground, gradually pouring milk into it. Beat the egg separately, then combine with the curd-milk mixture. Add salt, sugar, soda, half the prepared kefir and flour. The resulting mass must be thoroughly but quickly stirred. Pour the rest of kefir (the density of the dough should resemble liquid sour cream).
Fry the cottage cheese pancakes on a small fire, using vegetable oil. If you are not overcome by anxiety about your figure, you can replace the oil with pork fat. In this case, the baked goods will turn out to be especially tasty and aromatic.
Low-fat cottage cheese casserole
Surely for many people, the most pleasant memories of kindergarten are associated with dinners and afternoon tea. Not everything in the breech kitchen was equally good; but the diet curd casserole was invariably deliciously delicious. Good news: this nostalgic dish is easy to cook at home, and it takes very little time.
To prepare a classic cottage cheese casserole, you will need:
- 1 egg white
- 200 grams of low fat cottage cheese;
- 2 tablespoons of sugar;
- 50 grams of semolina;
- 25 grams of softened butter;
- And the same amount of milk (this is about one and a half tablespoons).
Pound the cottage cheese with the egg, add milk and whisk the mixture until a homogeneous thick mass. Add the remaining products, mix thoroughly again. The resulting workpiece must be left for half an hour or a little more so that the semolina has time to swell.
After that, you can put the "dough" in a baking dish and send it to the oven for 20 minutes. Cook at a temperature not exceeding 200 ° C. The finished casserole should acquire a delicate light honey hue.
From one pack of soft cottage cheese, 2 servings of a children's treat are obtained (from 6 to 8 slices, depending on how finely chopped). The nutritional value of this dish per 100 grams is only 92 calories.
Diet cheesecakes with bran
Curious fact: in Russia there was no separate name for cottage cheese. All products that were made from curdled milk were designated in one word: "cheese." That is why so far many dishes containing cottage cheese have this root in the name. That is how the word syrniki was formed.
There are a lot of recipes for this hearty treat. However, if you are already preparing a dish of soft fat-free cottage cheese, then it is reasonable to choose the rest of the ingredients that are dietary, healthy, and not adding extra weight.
To prepare a full diet for three people, you will need:
- 2 eggs;
- 4 sweetener tablets;
- a bag of baking powder dough;
- 2 packs of soft cottage cheese;
- 3 tablespoons of oat bran;
- And a pinch of vanillin.
To cook the cottage cheese pancakes, beat the eggs slightly, then add salt, bran and baking powder to them. The latter, if desired, can be replaced with half a teaspoon of soda. But remember that it will be necessary to extinguish it with vinegar.
Pour 2 tablespoons of water into a separate container, crush the sweetener tablets and wait until they completely dissolve. Mix with the curd.
The dough is ready. Now it remains to put it in muffin molds and put it in the oven, heated to 190 ° C. The readiness of cheesecakes is easily determined by the appearance of a golden crust.
100 grams of ready-made curd cheesecakes contain only:
- 27.6 grams of protein;
- 4.6 grams of fat;
- And 3.3 grams of carbohydrates.
The total nutritional value of this diet dish is 170 kilocalories. If desired, the sweetener can be replaced with sugar - then the treat will be more nutritious.
Delicate donuts for main courses
About cottage cheese, a not quite right opinion was formed as about an ingredient suitable exclusively for desserts. However, the main dishes from this product are no less tasty. For example, potato crumpets with cottage cheese are ideal for serving with soups, salads or meat dishes.
Take the following ingredients:
- 1.5 packs of fat-free cottage cheese;
- 300 grams of potatoes;
- 2 large eggs;
- 250 grams of flour;
- 2 tablespoons of grated raw carrots and green pickled peas;
- and, of course, a little salt and greens (parsley, dill, and cilantro will do).
Boil the potatoes, then mash it or grate it on a coarse grater. Mix with raw egg and cottage cheese; salt it. Add flour to the finished mixture. When the mass becomes uniform in consistency, mix peas with carrots and finely chopped greens into it. Form small dough from the resulting dough. You need to fry them over medium heat in fat or vegetable oil.