Steam cottage cheese with poppy seeds is a delicious and unusual dish that is very easy to prepare. How to make them without a steamer, read the step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Cottage cheese is the most useful product that should be present in our menu. Moreover, it is good for all ages and categories: pregnant women, children, old people. Many different dishes are prepared from it, but more often all cheesecakes or as they are also called curds. However, such a dish is quite high in calories, because fried in a pan in vegetable oil. And if you watch your weight or follow a healthy diet, then you need to cook cottage cheese with steam. These not only saturate the body with protein, strengthen bones, muscles and joints, but also do not burden the stomach, kidneys and liver. Therefore, low-calorie cheese cakes are included in the diet of many diets.
However, for ordinary cheese cakes to turn into a dietary product, it is not enough to steam them. You must use low-fat or semi-fat cottage cheese. Although if extra pounds do not scare you, then use cottage cheese with a fat content of 5% and higher, such cottage cheese will turn out to be more juicy and tender. In this case, take cottage cheese with a low moisture content, otherwise the dough will be too liquid. If there is no suitable cottage cheese, then put it on a cheesecloth folded in several layers and leave it for several hours so that the excess serum is glass. It is worth noting that this dietary recipe for cottage cheese turns out to be delicious, and all eaters will definitely like it. After all, in order for the dessert to be appreciated by all eaters, poppy is added to the dough, which, if desired, can be replaced with any other fillings: raisins, fruits, berries, nuts …
- Caloric content per 100 g - 299 kcal.
- Servings - 8-10 pcs.
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 300 g
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon or to taste
- Flour - 1 tablespoon
- Salt - a pinch
- Poppy - 1 tablespoon
- Eggs - 1 pc.
Step-by-step cooking of steam cottage cheese with poppy seeds, recipe with photo:
1. Place the curd in a deep bowl. To make the curds tasty, the curd must be dry, crumbly and low in fat. If you wish, you can rub it through a sieve, then the curds will turn out to be more magnificent. A meat grinder will not work, because she compresses the curd lumps.
2. Add flour (sifted through a fine sieve), sugar and a pinch of salt to the curd.
3. Beat the egg into the food.
4. Soak poppy seeds in warm water for 1-2 hours. It is better to do this in advance.
5. Strain the poppy seeds through a fine sieve to make the glass water and send it to all products.
6. Stir the food until it is evenly distributed and a smooth, homogeneous mass is obtained.
7. Form the pancakes into a round shape and press them down a little to make flat cakes. Place them in a colander, which is placed in a pot of boiling water. Make sure that boiling water does not get into the sieve with curds. Place the lid on the colander and cook the steamed poppy seed curds for 5-10 minutes, depending on their size. Serve hot, freshly cooked with your favorite toppings.
See also a video recipe on how to cook cheesecakes with poppy seeds.
