Cottage cheese cheesecake - general principles and methods of preparation
A cheesecake is a cheese dessert (literally from English: cheese - cheese, cake - pie, cake), baked without dough or chilled at low temperature and consisting of lush toppings. Cheesecake is a dish mainly of American and European cuisines. It was from there that he came to us.
At home, a cheese dessert is made exclusively from selected varieties of cream cheese, but some countries often partially or completely replace cheese with soft fatty cottage cheese. As a result, the dessert looks similar to the original and it turns out no worse than a cheesecake prepared according to a traditional recipe, though the taste of such a product will be slightly different.
The cottage cheese cheesecake, as a rule, is based on cottage cheese, butter and crumbly crumbly cookies. Oil and crumbs in a ratio of 1: 2 are mixed into a homogeneous mass, which is lined with the entire inner surface of a removable shape, including the sides. The result is a kind of "capacity", where we will lay the filling of cottage cheese.
In addition to cottage cheese, sugar, cream (sour cream), fruits, berries, raisins, vanillin, cinnamon, lemon zest, nuts, chocolate and other components are added to the filling of cheesecake. Then the mixture of ingredients is thoroughly beaten (to make the filling tender and lush), laid out in a mold and baked at 160-180 C or kept in the cold. After that, the treat is served on the table and consumed as a dessert.
Curd Cheesecake - Preparation
For the preparation of cottage cheese cheesecake, any friable cookies that are necessary to grind into small crumbs, pre-softened butter at room temperature, sugar (it is better to take small) and cottage cheese are suitable for us. Note that the cottage cheese should not have a low percentage of fat, otherwise the quality of the finished cheesecake will be sharply reduced. In addition, cottage cheese should be passed through a sieve (sieve or blender) to crush all the grains.
Curd Cheesecake - Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Jubilee Cooked Cheesecake
Cottage cheese cheesecake based on cookies "Jubilee" is deservedly considered one of the best desserts. Firstly, it is very useful, thanks to the cottage cheese and cereals contained in cookies. Secondly, a dessert is made in a matter of minutes. And the lemon zest, which is part of the dish, will give it, in combination with cottage cheese, an unusually rich taste and a bright "sunny" shade.
Ingredients:
- 600 gr. fat cottage cheese
- 250 gr. cookies "Jubilee"
- 100 gr. softened butter
- three eggs
- 100 gr. sour cream
- 150-170 gr. Sahara
- to taste vanillin
- one lemon (zest)
Cooking method:
1. Rub the cookies into crumbs (this can be done using a blender). Add oil and knead a homogeneous mass. We spread it in a greased form with high sides.
2. Level the dough on the inner surface, we will also make the sides of the dough about 3 cm high. We send it to the refrigerator for half an hour for good fixation.
3. While the "dough" is cooling, we will make the filling. Wipe the cheese thoroughly through a sieve, crushing all the lumps. Now beat eggs, vanillin and sugar separately. Mix with cottage cheese. We’ll send sour cream and zest of one lemon there (you can take mandarin or orange). Again, beat the mass for about one minute.
4. We take out the chilled "dough" and inside lay out the resulting curd filling. We carefully level it to the very top of the sides of the dough. We send the dessert in an oven preheated to 170 C for 50 minutes. Cool the finished cheesecake. We remove from the mold, cool (preferably, but not necessarily) and serve.
Recipe 2: Cherry Cheesecake and Chocolate Cheesecake
The combination of natural cherries, chocolate chip cookies, cocoa and cottage cheese makes the cheesecake amazingly delicious! By the way, cherries can be used not only fresh, but also freshly frozen. Several berries should be left to decorate the surface of the sweet cheesecake. Cookies can be purchased absolutely any to your taste.
Ingredients:
- one and a half glasses of finely ground cookies (any chocolate)
- one fourth cup of sugar (bottom layer)
- one table. spoon melted oils
- one egg white
- two glasses of whole cherries (cherries)
- one fourth cup of sugar (top layer)
- one art. spoon of lemon juice
- two teaspoons of starch
For filling:
- 500 gr. cottage cheese
- one glass of sour cream
- half a glass of thick condensed milk
- a glass (or a little more) of sugar
- three tbsp. tablespoons of cocoa (powder)
- two teaspoons of vanillin
- two eggs
- 100 gr. dark chocolate
Cooking method:
1. Separate the cherry from the seeds, chop the pulp in a blender. We leave some berries for the top layer. We spread the cherry puree, starch, sugar and lemon juice in the container. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring, for two to three minutes. Remove from heat, cool.
2. In a deep bowl, mix the cookies (crumbs), sugar, butter and egg white. We lay out the mass in a greased form with sides, lifting the sides of the dough for 3-4 centimeters. We send the form for 10 minutes to the oven preheated to 150 C. After which we cool the crust.
3. While the base cools down, we will make the filling. We wipe the cottage cheese, beat with condensed milk, sour cream, cocoa, vanilla, eggs, chocolate and sugar melted in a water bath. Pour the filling into a cooled crust. We send the cheesecake to the oven (temperature - 150 C) and bake for about forty minutes.
4. Grease the finished cake with a thick cherry sling, and spread the whole berries on top. Remove the cottage cheese cheesecake in the cold for at least four hours. And then we eat.
Recipe 3: Cottage Cheese Cheesecake Without Baking
An indisputable plus of cheesecake - it does not need baking, which allows you to save absolutely all useful substances in a dish. It takes less than half an hour to cook, and about four hours to cool. The dessert is just great in taste, hearty, juicy, bright and, most importantly, healthy. The best solution for any sweet tooth!
Ingredients:
- Coconut cookies (or any other)
- 200 gr. butter
- 500 gr. medium fat cottage cheese
- 200 gr. oily cream
- half a glass of sugar
- any fruits or berries for the top layer of about 300 gr.
- three tbsp. tablespoons agar-agar (powder)
- 50 gr. water
- syrup from the fruit (berry) that you choose as the first layer
- agar-agar - two tbsp. spoons (for jelly)
Cooking method:
1. Grind cookies into crumbs. Mix it with softened butter. We cover the inner surface of a deep container with cling film. We spread the mixture, forming small sides from the dough. We remove the base in the refrigerator for cooling.
2. Cooking the filling. Finely chop the fruit (berries). Rub the cottage cheese, mix it with sugar and fruit.
3. Pour cream into a saucepan, add agar-agar, mix and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring. We turn off the stove. We cool the cream and mix with the curd and fruit mass. The filling is ready.
4. We take out the "dough" from the refrigerator and put the filling on it. Carefully level out. Cook the jelly. To do this, grind the fruits, mix with sugar, water, add agar-agar. Bring the mass to a boil, cook for about one to two minutes. Cooling down.
5. Pour the cottage cheese cheesecake with the resulting syrup. On top of the cake we decorate with fruits and remove it in the cold for 4 hours (or all night). The cheesecake is ready! We take it out of the container by pulling the cling film and feast on it.
Cottage cheese cheesecake - useful advice from experienced chefs
In the process of baking cottage cheese cheesecake, you can encounter a very unpleasant problem - ugly cracks may appear on its surface. To avoid this, bake a cheesecake at a temperature not exceeding 180 degrees, and then slowly cool right in the oven, but you must open the door ajar. Only after that the cheesecake is taken out and with the help of a knife is carefully separated from the walls of the mold.
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