What to cook from cottage cheese besides cheese cakes and casseroles

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  snacks

• Cooking time:

  30 minutes

Ingredients

• avacado
• cottage cheese
• pickled gherkin
• crispbread
• spices

Cottage cheese is an ideal product that can be easily combined with a variety of vegetables, fruits and even meat. We offer a selection of recipes with photos that will tell you how to quickly and tasty feed your family. Because besides cheesecakes and casseroles, you can cook a lot of simple and light dishes from cottage cheese.

Sandwiches with cottage cheese and avocado

For those who adhere to the principle of nutrition according to Michel Montignac, such a snack is a real godsend! If you do not know what to cook from cottage cheese, except for cheese cakes and casseroles, this recipe will open up new possibilities for using this fermented milk product.

Ingredients:

• 1 medium avocado;
• 100 g of farm cottage cheese;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 1 pickled gherkin;
• 5-6 rye breads;
• salt and ground pepper to taste.

Preparation:

• Cut the avocado with a knife around the entire circumference, separate the halves and remove the pit.
• In a deep container, remove the pulp of the fruit with a tablespoon and lightly chop with a knife right in the bowl.

Send cottage cheese here, salt and pepper

• Using an immersion blender, turn everything into a homogeneous mass.
• Chop the cucumber finely and add to the spread.
• Crush a clove of garlic.
• Stir well and spread the bread.

Before serving, garnish the ready-made appetizer with fresh herbs or thin slices of pickled gherkins. If overseas fruit is not available, fresh dill can be substituted. You will get a very fragrant and healthy piquant mass

Cottage cheese appetizer with vegetables

This is ideal in summer when fresh vegetables are cheap and affordable. To cook something else from cottage cheese, except for cheese cakes and casseroles, it will take a minimum of time and products available to everyone.

Ingredients:

• 100 g of cottage cheese;
• 2 tbsp. l. sour cream;
• 50 g of any fresh herbs (to taste);
• 50 g sweet pepper;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 2 medium tomatoes.

Preparation:

1. Rinse and dry vegetables and herbs with a napkin.
2. Mix with an immersion blender or in a meat grinder cottage cheese, crushed garlic, finely chopped herbs, salt and ground pepper to taste.
3. Cut the tomatoes into thin slices.
4. Finely chop the bell pepper and fresh cucumber.
5. On each slice of bread or toast, put a circle of tomato, on top - a little curd paste.
6. Decorate with pepper and cucumber.

Before serving, add a sprig of parsley to each sandwich for brightness.

Toast with pears

This dish is perfect as an appetizing alternative to breakfast, especially if you have not cooked anything from cottage cheese in the morning, except for cheese cakes and casseroles. Instead of a pear, you can take any other fruit: an apple, a banana, or a plum.

Ingredients:

• 4 slices of toast bread;
• 200 g of farm cottage cheese;
• 2-3 st. l. heavy cream or thick sour cream;
• 1 large, hard pear;
• 2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• butter - for frying fruits.

Preparation:

1. Grind sugar with sour cream or cream and cottage cheese with a blender or fork. Ideally, you should get a homogeneous, tender mass.
2. Peel the washed pear and cut into slices of medium thickness.
3. Grease a skillet with butter. Heat it up and lay out the pieces of fruit, sprinkle them with sugar. Fry over medium heat until a light blush appears.
4. Toast bread in any convenient way - in a toaster or in an oven.
5. Grease the prepared toasts with curd mass and put slices of toasted fruit on top of it. Cut the structure diagonally and serve with tea or cocoa.
6. If you don't want a sweet breakfast in the morning, you can use this principle to make delicious toasts with tomato or bell pepper. Naturally, then sugar should be replaced with salt and ground pepper.

Hot sandwiches with cottage cheese and fresh spinach

Another useful recipe for those who do not know what to cook from cottage cheese, except for cheese cakes and casseroles. Fresh greens can be replaced with frozen semi-finished products, and farm cottage cheese can be replaced with a low-fat store product.

Ingredients:

• 50 g of any hard cheese;
• 1 bunch fresh spinach
• 210 g of homemade or commercial cottage cheese;
• 4 slices of black bread.

Preparation:

1. Rinse the herbs, chop finely.
2. Grate hard cheese on a fine grater.
3. Mix all the prepared ingredients with the curd with a fork and spread the slices of bread with the resulting mass.
4. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, send the blanks into it.
5. Bake until golden brown. Garnish with fresh herbs when serving.

If you don't have time to bake your sandwiches in the oven, you can reheat them for 2 minutes in the microwave.

Curd cake

With the addition of cottage cheese, you can prepare aromatic pastries. In addition to cheesecakes and casseroles, muffins with this fermented milk product are very popular. To make them airy, it is better to take low-fat cottage cheese.

Ingredients:

• 80 g butter;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 140 g of cottage cheese;
• 200 g flour;
• salt - on the tip of a knife;
• 160 g of sugar (you can take brown);
• 1 tsp without a slide of baking powder;
• vanilla sugar or lemon zest with 1/2 citrus;
• 100 g seedless raisins.

Preparation:

Remove all food from the refrigerator in advance so that it warms up to room temperature

• Rinse the raisins under the tap, pour boiling water over. After 10 minutes, drain off the hot liquid, rinse again with cold water and lay on a towel to dry.
• Grate the zest, mix it with sugar.
• Combine sifted flour with salt and baking powder.
• Beat melted butter until fluffy. Add sugar with zest and beat again.

• Introduce the eggs one at a time, each time thoroughly stirring everything with a mixer at low speed.
• Rub the cottage cheese directly into the container with the future dough, stir everything gently with a spatula.
• At the end of the process, add the sifted flour in small portions, knead the dough.
• Put the prepared raisins in the mass and mix again.

• Grease a mold with butter, put the dough into it.
• Align the top with a spatula, make a longitudinal cut in the middle. Bake the curd cake with raisins in the oven preheated to 170 degrees for 1 hour 10 minutes. The exact time depends on the characteristics of the oven and the size of the mold.

Raisins can be replaced with candied fruits or finely chopped fresh apples

Lazy dumplings with cottage cheese

This recipe was known to our grandmothers, who did not even think about what to cook from cottage cheese, except for cheese cakes and casseroles. Modern housewives have improved this recipe, and now it has become even easier to prepare the dish.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 400 g of cottage cheese;
• 1 chicken egg;
• salt - on the tip of a knife;
• 1 tsp vanilla extract;
• 80-150 g flour.

Ingredients for sour cream sauce:

• 180 g sour cream;
• 1-2 tbsp. l. orange juice;
• sugar and butter to taste.

Preparation:

• Put a pot of water on the stove, bring to a boil, covered.
• In a bowl, combine cottage cheese, salt, egg and vanilla extract.

Sift flour here, knead everything thoroughly with a spoon

• Place a piping bag or a tight bag with a cut-off corner in a large glass. Put the curd dough into it.
• As soon as the water in the pan boils, lightly add salt and place small pieces of dough into the hot liquid.

As soon as the dumplings float, remove them with a slotted spoon on a large plate

For the sauce, whisk the sour cream, sugar and orange juice with a whisk

When serving, garnish with orange slices and small portions of sweet sauce. You can add a sprig of mint on top

It is better not to add sugar to the curd dough so that you do not have to add even more flour later.

Banana house

A very tasty and light dessert for those who do not know what can be made from cottage cheese, except for cheese cakes and casseroles. It does not need to be baked, so even a child can cook such a delicacy.

Ingredients:

• sugar cookies - 12 pcs.;
• 250 g sour cream;
• 2 tbsp. l. sugar or honey;
• 1 large banana.

Preparation:

• Rub cottage cheese with sugar (honey) and sour cream through a sieve. You can break up the mass in a blender.
• Cover a wide kitchen board with cling film. Lay out the base of cookies in 4 rows (3 in each) on top.
• Grease each piece with sour cream, spread the curd mass evenly on top.

• Peel the bananas, put them in 1 row in the middle of the whole structure.
• On top of the fruits, apply the rest of the curd mass and roll the structure into a triangular roll with a film.

Spread the rest of the cream and sour cream again and send the treat to the refrigerator for soaking overnight

When serving, the dish can be garnished with coconut flakes and cut across in portions

You can add strawberries mashed with a fork, finely chopped plums or slices of oranges to the curd cream.

Chepalgash

This national Caucasian dish is distinguished by its simplicity of preparation and a delicate, slightly sour taste. Cilantro is used as an additional ingredient in the recipe. If someone does not like it, you can replace it with parsley.

Ingredients:

• 400 ml of kefir 3, 2%;
• 0.5 tsp Sahara;
• 0.5 tsp salt;
• 0.5 tsp soda;
• 300 g of cottage cheese;
• 70-80 g green onions;
• 600 g flour;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

Knead a soft dough of cottage cheese, kefir, flour, finely chopped herbs and spices. Wrap it in plastic wrap, let it proof for half an hour in the refrigerator

Divide the workpiece into small pieces, knead each with flour and roll into flat cakes 3-4 mm thick

Fry in a skillet greased with refined oil, turning from one side to the other several times

• Place in a pile on a plate, smearing each with melted butter.
• Such cakes will be very tasty if the granular cottage cheese is diluted with a small amount of feta cheese.

Forshmak

The famous Jewish treat has long been in demand among all housewives. It is easy and simple to prepare, eaten in one sitting.

Ingredients:

• 100 g of fermented milk cottage cheese;
• 60 g salted herring fillet;
• 40 g of red Yalta onions;
• 10 g lemon juice;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil

Preparation:

Pass the herring, onion, cottage cheese through a meat grinder and mix the mass with vegetable oil and a little lemon juice

• Moisten a tablespoon in cold water and scoop the forshmak from a bowl with neat balls.
• Place on a serving platter and place a ball of butter immediately. Black bread should be served with the appetizer.

You can add a little fresh apple, boiled carrots or oven baked beets to such a spread.

Curd smoothie

For those who care about their waist, a recipe for a healthy drink with various pleasant additives will come in handy.

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp. cottage cheese;
• 0, 5 tbsp. fresh milk;
• 1 tbsp. l. honey;
• fresh or frozen berries to taste.

Preparation:

1. Send cottage cheese, milk, honey and berries to the blender.
2. Beat the mixture thoroughly until smooth.
3. Put the finished treat in a bowl and serve for breakfast. The delicacy turns out to be very tasty and satisfying.
4. If desired, instead of berries, you can add nuts, bananas or dried apricots to the mass.

Curd envelopes

This is the perfect recipe for making goodies for the school fair. Moreover, an inexperienced cook can easily cope with it.

Ingredients:

• 200 g of cottage cheese;
• 100 g butter;
• 1 egg;
• vanillin - to taste;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 2 tbsp. flour;
• 100 g sugar for dusting the blanks.

Preparation:

1. Rub through a sieve or beat the cottage cheese with a blender. Transfer to a deep bowl. Add soft butter and egg here.
2. Send vanillin to the mass and again interrupt with a blender.
3. Add 1 tbsp. In portions to a bowl. sifted flour and baking powder.
4. Knead the elastic dough on a table sprinkled with the remaining flour.
5. Put the lump in a bowl, tighten with plastic wrap and send to a warm place for half an hour to disperse the flour.
6. Divide the workpiece into several parts, roll each into a layer several millimeters thick.
7. Cut out circles with a glass, dip 1 side of the workpiece in sugar, fold them into envelopes and sprinkle with sugar.
8. Bake the delicacy in an oven preheated to 200 degrees on a baking sheet covered with parchment for 30 minutes.
9. Allow to cool and place in a suitable box. Or eat right away with tea.

Here's a selection of simple and delicious recipes from cottage cheese we got. Now you know that you can cook a lot of mouth-watering dishes from it, except for cheese cakes and casseroles.