You can make all sorts of, and most importantly, healthy and tasty dishes from pumpkin. I suggest making delicious portioned muffins from pumpkin, chocolate and cottage cheese.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
It often happens that it is simply impossible to feed children with cottage cheese or a pumpkin dish. And actually the variety of pumpkin dishes we know only pumpkin porridge. And, as a rule, not all kids love her, they also do not honor cottage cheese in an independent form. Moreover, these products are very useful and important for children and adults. In such situations, you always have to come up with all sorts of different dishes, which will include these products. Not everyone's favorite cottage cheese and pumpkin can be disguised with adored chocolate.
Thanks to chocolate, the dessert will become completely unrecognizable in taste and color, and it will also become even more useful. After all, chocolate is a charge of vivacity, energy, strength and good mood. This dessert will be especially useful for those who follow the figure, follow a diet, keep weight and have health problems. In addition, cherries or any other vegetables can be added to the dough to complement the taste of the product. However, it is cherries that go well with chocolate and cottage cheese.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 160 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes (20 minutes for boiling pumpkin, 15 minutes for kneading dough, 30 minutes for semolina swelling, 40 minutes for baking)
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 250 g
- Cottage cheese - 200 g
- Dark chocolate - 50 g
- Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon
- Semolina - 4 tablespoons
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons or to taste
- Salt - a pinch
Making pumpkin, cottage cheese and chocolate muffins
1. Boil the peeled and chopped pumpkin until soft. Check its readiness with a knife - the vegetable is soft, which means it is ready. The average boiling time for pumpkin is 20 minutes. If you need to speed up this process, cut it into smaller pieces. Then the cooking will be cut in half. Grind the finished pumpkin with a crush or grind with a blender. If it is too watery, then hold it in a sieve to drain all the liquid.
2. Add cottage cheese and semolina to the pumpkin. It is advisable to use homemade and fresh cottage cheese. But if you are on a diet, you can buy a low fat product.
3. Add sugar and cocoa powder. The following point should be taken into account here. Cocoa is sweet and not sweet. Therefore, if you use an unsweetened product, then you may have to add more sugar, honey, condensed milk or jam to the dough. Accordingly, and vice versa - cocoa is sweet, then reduce the amount of sugar.
4. Use a sharp knife to grind the chocolate into small pieces and add it to the dough. If desired, milk or white chocolate can be used instead of dark chocolate.
5. Knead the dough and leave it for at least half an hour to disperse the semolina. Otherwise, if you immediately start baking the muffins, the semolina may remain grains.
6. After this time, separate the yolks from the whites. Put the yolks in the dough and mix well, and send the whites into a deep container and add a pinch of salt.
7. Beat the whites with a mixer until firm peaks and a white airy mass, which add to the dough.
8. Stir the dough well. But do this very carefully so that the squirrels don't settle. Otherwise, the airiness and tenderness of the product will be lost.
9. Fill the portion molds with dough. You can not lubricate silicone molds with anything, but be sure to coat iron or ceramic molds with butter so that the cupcakes do not stick.
10. Heat the oven to 200 degrees and bake the muffins for 35-40 minutes. Check their readiness by puncturing a splinter - dry, which means they are ready.
11. Chill ready-made muffins, garnish and serve with tea or coffee. If you wish, you can soak them with cognac or coffee, then they will become even tastier.
See also a video recipe on how to make chocolate cottage cheese muffins.
