Many people associate delicious baking with hot heat to hot tea with a long time at the stove, the search for many ingredients and complex recipes. However, you can treat yourself to baking of your own making without such efforts. Curd rolls are a vivid confirmation of this. To knead the dough, only 4 simple products are needed, while the preparation itself takes about half an hour.
Loose cottage cheese rolls in butter can be considered, without exaggeration, an express version of homemade baked goods in a hurry. Kneading the dough and twisting the strips is easy even when guests unexpectedly come for tea, and there is nothing tasty in the cabinets and the refrigerator. In addition, any cottage cheese can be used - both fat and low-fat, store or homemade. But it is easy to replace butter with good margarine like "Hostess", "For baking".
Ingredients
To knead a crumbly, tender dough, you will need only 4 ingredients available in every store, and a zealous hostess has at home in grocery supplies:
- 200 g of any cottage cheese;
- 200 g butter or quality margarine;
- 200 g wheat flour;
- 2 egg yolks.
Also, the ingredients do not specify granulated sugar in any required amount. The fact is that sugar (1-2 tablespoons) can be added both to the dough itself when kneading, or used for sprinkling. The second option is more preferable, as it turns out tastier. If the bagels are made from sweet curd mass in briquettes, sugar in the recipe is not needed at all, the pastries will turn out sweet, very appetizing in appearance.
Step by step recipe with photo
Making bagels dough is a simple process. Twisting the same strips of cut triangles can generally be entrusted to children, involving them in the simple stages of cooking.
1) Soften butter, margarine (which is in stock) in the microwave or on the stove.
2) Mix in a bowl with the rest of dry products - cottage cheese, flour.
3) Grind the contents of the bowl with your hands into a homogeneous sticky mass, add the egg yolks.
4) Transfer the dough to a floured table, knead well again, adding flour to your hands if necessary. As a result, the dough should not stick to your hands, become homogeneous, elastic. It all depends on the softness and fat content of the cottage cheese, its original consistency.
5) Roll a ball of dough, as in the photo below, place in a bowl in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.
6) Take out the chilled dough, divide into 2-3 parts, roll each into a round layer. Cut all the cakes into 8-12 triangles as shown in the photo.
7) Twist each triangle into a nice bagel, starting from the widest to the narrowest. Leave straight or shape into a small bow, bringing the ends together. Sprinkle the bagels with granulated sugar to make them sweet.
8) Grease or cover a baking sheet with parchment, lay out the cottage cheese rolls, bake in the oven for 25 minutes at 210 degrees.
Ready-made crispy bagels can be served with tea, coffee as a separate homemade pastry or together with jam, preserves. For flavor, it is recommended to sprinkle them with cinnamon powder or icing sugar on top. If there is a desire, while twisting, it is easy to add any sweet filling inside, then you will get author's mini croissants for breakfast.
