A step-by-step recipe with a photo of cottage cheese and pumpkin buns on semolina with cherries in the oven. The subtleties of cooking healthy pastries. Video recipe.
If you still have a piece of butternut squash and stale cottage cheese in your fridge, dispose of these products and make a semolina cottage cheese-pumpkin bun with cherries. The sweet and vibrant pumpkin is perfect for homemade baked goods, especially with cottage cheese. It turns out it is insanely tasty, tender and aromatic. Pies are prepared quite simply and from available products. And it will appeal to both adults and children. You can serve sweet and not sweet buns with a meal on their own with a cup of tea or coffee, sour cream or your favorite sauce.
Choose cottage cheese for the recipe with any percentage of fat, as you like. The fatter the cottage cheese, the more high-calorie baked goods will be. You can take any berries for the filling that are available in the season. Use fresh in the summer, and use frozen supplies in the winter. The healthy pumpkin-curd mass can be flavored by seasoning it with vanilla, honey, cinnamon, turmeric, nutmeg, orange or lemon zest. If you are not a sweet tooth, add pepper, garlic, herbs … to the dough, and take pieces of ham, cheese, smoked meats as a cherry filling. The recipe is very variable, so prepare the buns as you like and taste.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 389 kcal.
- Servings - 10-12 pcs.
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Cottage cheese - 300 g
- Salt - a pinch
- Pumpkin puree - 50 g
- Semolina - 3 tablespoons
- Lemon or orange peel - 1 tsp
- Pitted cherries - 100 (for filling)
- Sugar - 50 g or to taste
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Sour cream - 1, 5-2 tbsp.
Step-by-step preparation of cottage cheese-pumpkin buns on semolina with cherries, recipe with photo:
1. Place the curd in a bowl and use a fork to break up the lumps.
2. Add semolina, sugar and a pinch of salt. Also add sour cream.
3. Stir the food to distribute the semolina throughout the dough.
4. Add pumpkin puree and orange zest to the dough. You can make pumpkin puree from boiled or baked pumpkin. How to do this, you will find a step-by-step recipe with a photo on the pages of the site. To do this, use the search string.
Orange zest can be used either dried or fresh.
5. Stir the dough well.
6. Add eggs to food and mix well again.
7. Leave the dough for half an hour for the semolina to swell and increase in volume. Otherwise, in finished products, the groats will grind on your teeth.
8. Remove pits from cherries. If you are using frozen berries, defrost them first. Wash fresh fruits and dry with a paper towel.
9. Sprinkle the hands with flour so that the dough does not stick and form a round cake.
10. Place a few cherries in the middle of the curd cake and cover with a little dough.
11. Twirl the pie in your hands until the edges of the dough come together and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
12. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and send the curd-pumpkin buns on semolina with cherries to bake for half an hour. When they are golden brown, remove the items from the oven. Cool slightly, then remove from the baking sheet and serve to the dessert table.
See also the video recipe on how to make pumpkin buns with pumpkin-lemon filling.
