Curd pudding is a delicious, and most importantly healthy dessert, which is easy to prepare yourself at home. Delight and surprise your family with an exquisite cottage cheese dish for breakfast or afternoon tea.
Recipe content:
- How to make curd pudding - subtleties and secrets
- Steamed curd pudding
- Microwave cottage cheese pudding
- Oven curd pudding
- Steamed curd pudding
- Video recipes
Curd puddings are a similar dish with curd casserole, but with their own cooking characteristics. Some housewives mistakenly believe that these two dishes are the same. It is enough to mix all the ingredients, bake or steam and the pudding will come out. Perhaps the first puddings were prepared this way. However, cooks are meticulous people. Therefore, they perfected the pudding recipes, proving that pudding is a very special kind of culinary skill.
How to make curd pudding - subtleties and secrets
Basically, the same products are used for puddings as for casseroles: cottage cheese, semolina, rice, eggs, crackers, sour cream, milk. They are prepared with a variety of ingredients, but the most popular is raisins. But you can make pudding with other products, like all kinds of berries, fruits, spices, cocoa, chocolate, juice, rum, cognac, fruit essence, candied fruits, pumpkin, beets, spinach, nuts, bananas and other fillers. In addition, they are prepared not only sweet, but also with fish, meat and various vegetables.
But in order not to turn the pudding into a regular casserole, you should know some simple rules:
- For the splendor of the product, the whites are separated from the yolks. Beat each product separately. Then they are sequentially combined with the rest of the ingredients. The whipped protein is introduced into the mass last, it intervenes gently so as not to destroy the bubbles.
- For baking, use special forms with a hole in the middle. Then the pudding will cook well. Small cake tins are also used.
- The pudding is put in the oven half heated, otherwise it will instantly be covered with a golden brown crust, and inside it will remain unbaked and damp. Such a product, when removed from the oven, quickly falls off.
- First, the oven is heated to 180 ° C, the pudding is put into it, and then the heating is continued to 200-220 ° C.
- Remove the baked goods from the oven after cooling.
- For elasticity, semolina, flour, stale bread, boiled rice can be added to the dough.
- If semolina is added according to the recipe, then after kneading the dough, he needs to be given time to rest, about half an hour, so that the semolina swells. Then the pudding will hold its shape well and will not settle.
- In addition to the oven, curd puddings are prepared in a double boiler, in a water bath or in a microwave.
- Ready-made pastries are stored in the refrigerator for no more than 72 hours.
- It is better to take cottage cheese at home or cook it yourself from homemade milk.
- If the cottage cheese is store-bought, then it is better to buy it with an average fat content of 9%.
- Too dry cottage cheese is diluted with a few tablespoons of kefir or sour cream.
- Cottage cheese is used, the shelf life of which is no more than 5 days from the date of its production.
- To prevent the pudding from burning and coming out of the mold well, the dishes should be greased with vegetable or butter before baking, or lined with parchment paper.
- The pudding will be tastier if all the ingredients are mixed until a homogeneous smooth mass and only then eggs are introduced separately, dividing them into yolks and whipped whites.
Steamed curd pudding
Steamed curd pudding is a quick and easy culinary recipe for a classic English dish that turns out to be very satisfying and tender.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 164, 4 kcal.
- Servings - 1 Pudding
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 400 g
- Milk - 100 g
- Sour cream - 80 g
- Sugar - 80 g
- Flour - 40 g
- Butter - 20 g
- Eggs - 1 pc.
Step by step cooking:
- Grind the cottage cheese through a fine sieve or twist through a meat grinder with a fine grid. Place it in a deep kneading container.
- Pour sugar and flour into the curd. Mix the food thoroughly.
- Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Immediately send the latter into the dough and stir in.
- Pour in milk and stir again until smooth.
- Beat the whites into a thick, stable white foam and add the curd mass into them. Knead the dough in gentle strokes from top to bottom. Put the prepared mixture in a greased dish.
- If you have a double boiler, use it to cook the pudding. If there is no such device, then make a steam bath. To do this, pour water into a saucepan and boil. Place the dough pan on top so that it does not touch the boiling water. Close the dish with a lid and cook the product in this way for 40 minutes.
- Serve sour cream pudding. Such food is perfect for medical and dietary nutrition.
Microwave cottage cheese pudding
Curd pudding in a slow cooker is a delicious and tender English dessert. This is a great way to dispose of cottage cheese stuck in the fridge.
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 500 g
- Milk - 125 ml
- Sour cream - 25 g
- Semolina - 50 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Nuts - 100 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
Step by step cooking:
- Place the cutting knife attachment in the food processor. Put cottage cheese with sugar in it and beat well until smooth so that all the grains break.
- Add the semolina and sour cream and beat again.
- Add a pinch of salt and pour in the milk. Scroll everything again and let it brew for 15 minutes so that the semolina swells.
- Divide the eggs into whites and yolks.
- Place the yolks in the dough and stir in.
- When the semolina swells, beat the protein with a mixer until firm peaks are formed. Then insert them into the dough and stir the food in one direction with slow movements.
- Grease a baking dish and place the dough.
- Place the pudding in the microwave, set the bake setting, and cook the pudding for about half an hour. But the specific time will depend on the power of the device.
Oven curd pudding
Oven curd pudding is a culinary classic. The dessert turns out to be very tender and light. And decorating it with berries and whipped cream, it will turn out to be an elegant and festive cake.
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 300 g
- Chicken egg - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
- Butter - 50 g.
- Semolina - 2 tablespoons
- Raisins - a couple of handfuls
Step by step cooking:
- Pour semolina with half a glass of boiling water and set aside to swell.
- Separate the yolks from the proteins.
- Add sugar to the yolks and beat well until a smooth lemon-colored mass is formed.
- Grind the curd through a fine sieve.
- Combine cottage cheese with whipped yolks and whisk and mix thoroughly.
- Add softened butter to the curd mass. To soften it, you can use a microwave oven, setting the minimum power, or put on a saucer and set in a warm place for 30 minutes.
- Rinse the raisins thoroughly and combine with the swollen semolina and curd-oil mixture. Mix thoroughly.
- Add a pinch of salt to the cooled proteins and beat thoroughly with a mixer until they turn into a snow-white foam.
- Gently pour the whipped egg whites into the dough, stirring constantly with a whisk from bottom to top.
- Grease the mold with vegetable oil and pour the dough. If the mold is silicone, then nothing is lubricated.
- Heat the oven to 230 ° C and bake the pudding for half an hour.
- Cool the finished pudding without taking it out of the oven and put it out of the mold on a dish.
Steamed curd pudding
Curd pudding in a double boiler turns out to be no less juicy than in the oven. This recipe will help out perfectly if there is no oven or, according to the doctor's recommendations, dietary nutrition should be followed.
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 100 g
- Butter - 5 g
- Milk - 25 ml
- Sugar - 20 g
- Sour cream - 20 g
- White crackers - 10 g
- Egg - 1/2 pc.
Step by step cooking:
- Turn the cottage cheese through a meat grinder with a fine grid.
- Pour sugar, white crumbs and egg yolk into the curd mass. Mix food thoroughly.
- Dilute the dough with milk and mix well.
- Using a mixer, beat the proteins into a thick white airy foam and add to the curd mass. Stir in from top to bottom.
- Cover the mold with baking paper and place the prepared mixture in the glass dish of the double boiler.
- Place it in a double boiler and cook for about half an hour.
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