The history of the origin of cottage cheese is very vague. None of the historians and archaeologists can name the exact date of appearance of this ingredient on people’s tables.
There is an assumption that cottage cheese appeared as a result of souring of milk. Man obviously did not intentionally leave the milk in the heat, which caused fermentation. Since then, people began to experiment with cottage cheese, which gave rise to many recipes.
One of the most relevant recipes today is cottage cheese casserole
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Let’s tell you how to cook casserole without flour.
Ingredients for cottage cheese casserole:
- 9% cottage cheese -700 g;
- salt – a pinch;
- eggs – 5 pcs;
- vanilla sugar – 10 g;
- sugar – 150 g;
- sour cream – 200 g;
- starch – 50 g.
Preparation of cottage cheese casserole:
Pour salt, vanilla sugar and classic granulated sugar into the dry cottage cheese. Add sour cream to the curd as well.
Separate the eggs into yolks and whites. Add the yolks to the cottage cheese along with the starch. The last ingredient can be replaced with flour or semolina if desired.
Beat the cottage cheese with the rest of the ingredients with an immersion blender until homogeneous. Add a pinch of salt to the proteins, beat with a mixer to stable peaks.
Gently introduce the proteins with a spatula into the cottage cheese mass, so we will give the casserole airiness and fluffiness.
Grease the mold with butter and sprinkle with flour.
Preheat the oven to 170-180 degrees. Pour into the mold curd mass, try to fill the surface as much as possible and distribute an even layer.
Bake the dish for about 40-50 minutes, and then leave to cool in the oven.
The casserole can be given a rich flavor if you add, for example, lemon zest to the cottage cheese. You can serve the cottage cheese casserole with sour cream or jam.
