If you are tired of cottage cheese pancakes and casseroles, then prepare mini cottage cheese pies. They contain a minimum of flour and a maximum of cottage cheese, which makes the dessert a low-calorie and light meal.
Recipe content:
- Secrets of curd dough
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Curd dough is used very rarely in home cooking, since it is most often used to make cheese cakes and casseroles, or, in extreme cases, lazy dumplings or cheesecake. Although it is in vain, as professional chefs assure. Since such a dough is incredibly easy to prepare, it also has a divine taste.
In the arsenal of any housewife, there must be a couple of recipes for making quick dough. This will help you out if your family adores baking and may require you to bake something sweet and tasty at any time. Therefore, you must definitely stock up on several recipes for making quick dough, and this recipe is one of them. Unlike kneading yeast masses, this dough is kneaded in literally 10 minutes.
Secrets of making curd dough
- Cottage cheese should be used only fresh and in no case non-acidic, because the sourness in the dough will still be preserved.
- To prevent the mass from sticking to your hands, dust the cutting surface with flour and grease your hands with vegetable oil.
- So that the finished pies have a golden crust, you can grease them with egg yolk before sending them to the oven.
- Pies should be baked at a temperature of 180-200 ° C, no more than 30-40 minutes. The advantage of making curd dough in the oven is that it rises during baking, and remains lush after cooling.
- To simplify your work, you can simply put the fruit filling in the dough. But if you want to add it exactly in the middle of the mass, then sprinkle the fruits with juice before cooking with starch.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 270 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 500 g
- Peach - 1 pc.
- Sesame seeds - 1 tablespoon
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Wheat flour - 4 tablespoons
- Honey - 2-3 tablespoons or to taste
- Salt - a pinch
Cooking mini curd pies
1. Put the curd in a deep bowl and remember it with a fork to knead all the lumps. If the curd is very wet, then the excess moisture must be removed. To do this, put it in a sieve or cheesecloth and leave for 20 minutes to drain all the whey, then add salt and flour to the curd.
2. Beat an egg into the dough, add sesame seeds and finely diced ripe peach. I decided in this recipe for a fruit filling, i.e. peach, add directly to the dough. But if you want to make it a filling, sprinkle the chopped peach with starch or wheat flour.
3. Add honey to the dough. Choose the amount of honey yourself, it serves as a sugar substitute. And if you are allergic to bee products, then replace honey with sugar powder.
4. Knead the dough well until smooth so that all food is evenly distributed.
5. From the finished dough, form into small patties, about 5 cm in size. And place them on a baking tray, which should not be oiled, especially if it is fatty cottage cheese. If the cottage cheese is dietary and low-calorie, you can grease a baking sheet with a little butter. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and send mini-pies to bake for half an hour. Before baking, if you wish, you can grease the pies with egg yolk, then they will have a golden crust. Although you can get it if you set the "grill" program for 5 minutes at the end of baking in the oven.
Sprinkle the finished pies with peach and sesame seeds with powdered sugar and serve. Dessert can be consumed both warm and cold.
See also a video recipe for making fried cottage cheese pies with apples:
