Do you like sweet pastries and desserts, but don't feel like cooking for a long time, fiddling around the stove or oven? Then this uniquely curd-semolina soufflé with orange peel in the microwave is for you. A step-by-step recipe with a photo, which will take 10 minutes to prepare. Video recipe.
There is no way to use the oven and please your loved ones with fragrant and fresh homemade cakes? Then an ordinary home microwave oven will come to the rescue, in which you can cook many different dishes. I propose to cook in the microwave a delicate soufflé from cottage cheese and semolina with a light taste. It will appeal to both adults and children, it will be a wonderful breakfast or afternoon tea. It is prepared quickly, with healthy ingredients, and contains a minimum amount of sugar and calories. This soufflé will especially be liked by those who follow the figure, eat right and follow a diet. It does not contain a lot of fat and sugar. And the calorie content of the dessert can be regulated by the fat content of the cottage cheese. The lower the percentage of fat, the less high-calorie the dessert will turn out.
The recipe uses orange peel as a flavoring additive, which can be perfectly substituted with other spices. For example, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, honey, cocoa, cloves, etc. You can also add raisins, finely chopped dried apricots and prunes, fruits and berries to the dough. Preparing such a soufflé is very easy and simple, and it won't take much time. The total cooking time takes no more than 15 minutes.
See also how to make a cottage cheese-semolina soufflé with chocolate in the microwave.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 328 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese of any fat content - 200 g
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons or to taste
- Semolina - 1 tablespoon
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Ground nutmeg - 1, 3 tsp
- Dried ground orange peel - 0.5 tsp
- Salt - a pinch
Step-by-step preparation of cottage cheese-semolina soufflé with orange zest in the microwave, recipe with photo:
1. Combine eggs with sugar and salt in a deep container.
2. Beat eggs with a mixer until they double in volume and acquire a lemon color.
3. Add semolina to the egg mass and stir.
4. Add ground dried orange zest and nutmeg to the slurry. Stir the food again.
5. Add cottage cheese to the dough. If you wish, you can grind it through a fine sieve or beat with a blender. Then the dessert will be more uniform, tender and smooth.
6. Stir the curd dough with a mixer until smooth.
7. Pour the dough into portioned silicone tins, for example muffins. Or, use any other convenient microwave-safe container.
8. Send the cottage cheese-semolina soufflé with orange zest to the microwave. With an appliance power of 850 kW, cook it for 5 minutes. If the power is different, adjust the cooking time. Serve warm or chilled. Cover it with chocolate icing, if desired.
See also a video recipe on how to cook a diet soufflé in the microwave.
