Want fresh, sweet and crunchy cookies? In this case, it must necessarily be useful? Then homemade cottage cheese cookies, which are rich in many useful vitamins and microelements, will be an excellent solution.
Photo of finished cookies with tea Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
For the first time, curd cookies appeared about 10 thousand years ago. It was invented in order to preserve the perishable dairy product, cottage cheese, for a longer period. In addition, such pastries also perfectly saturate the body, give energy and strength. But in order to learn how to cook it properly, you need to know some secrets.
- The main component of cookies is cottage cheese of any fat content. It is not recommended to use granulated cottage cheese, because the grains will not allow you to knead soft and elastic dough.
- Do not use sour cottage cheese, it is not suitable for cookies, because the characteristic sourness will not be removed even with sugar.
- If the amount of cottage cheese dominates the dough, the biscuits will be more crumbly and crunchy. If more flour is present, the baked goods will turn out to be slightly drier and harder.
- If you want to get more fluffy cottage cheese cookies, then rub the cottage cheese through a sieve.
- Add different confectionery spices to make the cookies special: cinnamon, coconut, nutmeg, crushed nuts, poppy seeds, chocolate chips, vanillin, citrus zest. You can also tint the dough a little with food coloring. Colored cookies are sure to be a hit.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 310 kcal.
- Servings - 40
- Cooking time - 1 hour 20 minutes
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 500 g
- Flour - 500 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 5-6 tablespoons or to taste
- Salt - a pinch
- Soda - 1 tsp
Making cottage cheese cookies
1. Combine butter of soft consistency, sugar and salt in one container.
2. Beat the food with a mixer and beat in the egg.
3. Beat the ingredients again with a mixer until smooth. In this case, the oil in the dough will seem to separate. Do not be alarmed, it should be so.
4. Add the curd. If you wish, you can pre-twist it through a meat grinder or grind it through a sieve.
5. Mix the curd with the rest of the products with a mixer.
6. Now add flour. But do it gradually. First pour in one glass and knead the dough with a mixer.
7. Then add another glass of flour and knead the dough with your hands until elastic, so that it does not stick to your hands. Leave the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
8. After this time, use a rolling pin to roll out the dough into a 2–3 mm thin cake. Squeeze circles on it with a special culinary form or an ordinary glass.
9. Fold the squeezed dough in half, and again in half. Although you can leave it round, or use any other baking dish.
10. Place the cookies on a baking sheet. If you use fatty cottage cheese, then you can not grease the baking sheet, and if it is fat-free, then smear it with vegetable oil with a cooking brush.
11. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and send the curd cookies to bake for 20-30 minutes.
12. Let the cooked liver cool well. If you wish, you can decorate it with powdered sugar.
13. Serve homemade fresh baked goods to the table with fresh tea, coffee or a glass of milk.
See also a video recipe on how to make cottage cheese cookies:
