Cheesecakes are a tasty and easy-to-prepare dish that you can pamper yourself with for breakfast. As a rule, cheesecakes are served with jam, sour cream or honey, but there may be savory versions of this dish with dill or garlic in the composition. Any cheese cakes should be juicy, fluffy and soft, so during cooking you need to remember some secrets and rules.
For a delicious dish, you always need only fresh and high-quality products. The basis of the cheese pan is cottage cheese. It can be fatty or fat-free, but not very acidic and as fresh as possible. The optimum fat content of cottage cheese is 7-18%, its texture should be uniform and without grains. If the cottage cheese is dry, it can be softened with a small amount of sour cream, milk or kefir. The cottage cheese should not be too wet, otherwise more semolina or flour will have to be added to it, which can make the dish "rubbery".
Ideally, it is advisable to wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve - this guarantees a homogeneous and delicate consistency.
In addition to cottage cheese, cheese pancakes can include wheat flour, bran flour, semolina or starch. These ingredients are needed to bind moisture. Eggs are an obligatory ingredient, thanks to which the cheesecakes will not fall apart during frying. You can use whites and yolks or only yolks, due to which the syrniki will have a pleasant color. Diet options exclusively use proteins.
Since cheesecakes can be sweet, salty, spicy or spicy, they can contain a wide variety of ingredients. The most common: sugar, dried apricots, raisins, vanilla, dried cranberries, herbs, garlic, dried vegetables.
In order for the syrniki to bake well, they must be small in diameter. The optimal size is a dough cheesecake, which can be grabbed from a cup with a regular tablespoon.
You can bake cheese cakes in the oven, but traditionally they are fried so that the dish has an appetizing golden brown crust. It is best to use a non-stick or heavy-bottomed pan for frying.
You need to fry the syrniki in a pre-heated frying pan, but over medium heat, then they will bake well and will not burn. It is recommended to cover the pan with a lid during frying.
