Cheesecakes are a popular dish that can be eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. However, despite the seeming simplicity of the standard recipe, some difficulties can be encountered in the process of preparing them.
Syrniki recipe
There are a huge number of cheesecake recipes, since each housewife has her own requirements for the finished dish: someone likes to make them sweeter, someone likes the rich taste of cottage cheese, and someone prefers that they taste like pancakes.
Nevertheless, all these recipes have common parameters, and the main one is the list of ingredients used. So, despite its name, cheesecakes do not contain cheese at all, but are prepared on the basis of cottage cheese. For 500 grams of this product, according to the classic cheesecake recipe, you need to put from half to 3/4 cup flour, 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 egg, a pinch of salt and a little butter.
First, the cottage cheese that you want to use for making cheese cakes must be kneaded in a separate bowl, and then add the rest of the products to it. After that, roll a sausage from the resulting dough and cut it into washers of approximately the same thickness. They are doused in flour and sent to a frying pan to fry in oil for 3-5 minutes on each side.
Reasons for cooking failures
Despite the seeming simplicity of the recipe, many housewives were faced with the fact that it is quite difficult to achieve perfect ready-made syrniki. The most common problem in this regard is the situation when the formed washers simply fall apart during the cooking process.
The reason for this problem is due to the insufficient amount of flour added to the dough. The thing is that the standard recipe is focused on the specific nature of the curd used - not too wet, not too dry. Therefore, if you use more moist curd, the amount of flour offered may not be enough to form a sufficiently dense mass.
Therefore, during the preparation process, it is necessary to independently control the consistency of the resulting dough, not relying entirely on the proportions given in the recipe. So, the finished dough should be dense, elastic and not stick to your fingers. If, after adding all the ingredients to the dough and mixing them thoroughly, you feel that the dough is thin, sticks to your hands or oozes liquid, you need to add a little more flour to it.
At the same time, the flour should be added to the dough gradually until the desired consistency is obtained: if this was achieved, then as a result you will get excellent cheesecakes that will keep their shape well. Only after that you can start forming and baking cheesecakes.
