Dishes made of cottage cheese are often called not curd, but cheese dishes. This linguistic phenomenon has always confused foreigners who study our speech. The fact is that cheesniki for Western Slavs is a special dish. For a long time, cottage cheese was called cheese, or rather syr
. Over time, the word “syr” was replaced by the familiar “cottage cheese”
.
But people by habit, developed over the centuries, continued to call curd dishes cheesy.
Therefore, the word cheesecake retained its name despite the fact that the dish is made of cottage cheese. We will tell one of the successful recipes for cooking juicy cheesecakes.
Ingredients for cheesecakes:
- flour – 480 g;
- salt – a pinch;
- leavening agent – 10 g;
- butter – 180 g;
- egg yolks – 2 pcs;
- sour cream – 200 g;
- cottage cheese – 500 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- vanilla sugar – 10 g;
- sugar – 150 g;
- cream – tbsp.
Preparation of cheesecakes:
Pour salt and baking powder into the sifted flour, mix the loose products. Cold butter cut into small cubes, put into the flour together with yolks and sour
cream. It is necessary to knead soft crumbly dough with hands and gather it into a lump
.
Divide the dough into two equal parts, wrap them in foil and send them to the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
Combine the cottage cheese with vanilla and classic sugar and eggs, beat with an immersion blender until a homogeneous
mass
is formed.
Add cream to the cottage cheese mass, mix the components. Roll out the dough into a medium-thick layer, cut out small circles from the dough with a glass.
Place the dough circles in muffin molds so that both the bottom and the walls are involved. Spread the cottage cheese mixture into the pastry baskets.
Cover the top with a second piece of dough chopped on a coarse grater. Bake the cheesecakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
After cooking, you need to sprinkle the cheesecakes with powdered sugar. This recipe is more complicated than ordinary cheesecakes, so we advise you to prepare it for a tea party or holiday.
