Easter bustle can not pass without cooking Easter cottage cheese. Recipes for cottage cheese, as well as many popular dishes, a lot, but they are all united by the fact that for any cottage cheese Easter needs a form. Traditionally, it is made of wood, in the form of a truncated pyramid, which symbolizes the Holy Sepulcher, with obligatory images of a spear, flowers (sprouts), a cross and a walking stick on the sides, and the letters "HB" on top. To date, such a dismountable form is made of plastic, but, unfortunately, it is not easy to acquire it. And how, then, to cook the curd pasta, if this form of the house was not found? For these purposes, you can adjust a square bucket of plastic, having done in it a lot of holes for the flow of serum. The form in both cases will need to be lined with a slightly moist gauze.
Recipe for simple curd Easter
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese (fresh) - 1,5 kg;
- butter - 100 g;
- sugar (better powdered sugar) - 1/2 cup;
- sour cream - 1/2 cup;
- salt - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
Fresh curd twice wipe through a sieve. We rub the oil with sugar and salt until the sugar dissolves. Then add sour cream and stir until the mixture becomes airy and homogeneous. We fill the grated cottage cheese with this mixture, we spread curd into the form and put under pressure for a day in a cold place. After the oppression we take off, we spread the Easter on the dish and decorate it.
Recipe for boiled curd Easter
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese (fresh) - 2 kg;
- butter - 400 g;
- sugar (better powdered sugar) - 700 g;
- sour cream - 800 g;
- egg - 10 pieces;
- Peeled almonds - 100 g;
- raisins - 100 g;
- Vanillin - to taste.
Preparation
We rub twice through a sieve cottage cheese with a butter, we add sour cream and eggs. We mix everything thoroughly. We put the saucepan on the stove, stirring constantly, bring the mass to a boil. As soon as this happens, remove the pan from the fire and immediately cool it, placing the container in cold water, not forgetting to stir it. When the mass cools down, add vanillin, nuts, sugar and raisins to it. The mixture is again mixed and put into a mold, well ramming. We leave in the cold under oppression for a day.
The recipe for the curd cake
Lovers of cottage cheese will not refuse to pamper themselves and their loved ones not only with the most delicate curd pasta, but also with curd cakes, cooked in a bread maker or oven. To make an Easter cake in a breadmaker a lot of effort is not necessary - the main thing is to choose the right program, but to prepare the cake in the oven, efforts will have to be made more, so we will disassemble this method.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 250 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- sugar - 2/3 cup + 1h. a spoon;
- milk - 1/4 cup;
- powdered sugar - 1/3 cup;
- flour - 2 cups + 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- dry yeast - 5-6 g;
- raisins - 2/3 cup;
- lemon juice - 1 teaspoon;
- Vanillin - to taste.
Preparation
Milk slightly warm, add a tablespoon of flour, a teaspoon of sugar and yeast. All mixed and put the sponge in a warm place to go. Separate one egg from the yolk from the protein. We remove the protein in the refrigerator, beat the yolk with the remaining eggs with sugar. Pour this mixture into the grated cottage cheese, add melted butter, spoon, vanillin and salt. We mix everything thoroughly, add flour, mix again, pour in the washed and dried raisins and again mix everything thoroughly. In prepared forms (at the bottom of a circle of oiled paper, the sides are oiled) spread the dough, not more than half the height of the mold. Leave to go until the dough rises by half. Next, the form is put in a preheated oven to 200oC, until the top of the cakes is blushed. After that, open the oven and cover the tops of the cakes with wet mugs of paper. Bake until ready, 40-50 minutes. While the cakes are in the oven, prepare the glaze - whisk the protein with sugar powder and lemon juice. Pour ready-made cakes glaze.