It is better to make curd at home than to buy it. You can put your favorite fresh berries and fruits in it, add dried fruits, candied fruits, season with sour cream, cream or egg yolks. In the choice of filling, you are limited only by your imagination.
It is necessary
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- Cottage cheese
- milk
- fruits
- berries
- dried fruits
- candied fruit
- nuts
- caramel sauce
- chocolate
- eggs
- sour cream
- cream
- sugar
- honey
- jam
- salt
- spice
- greens
Instructions
Step 1
Buy cottage cheese. Many people think that a good curd mass can only be made from curd with a fat content above 5%, but this is not the case. Gone are the days when it was believed that the fatter the better. Now many people strive to maintain their health, and therefore fatty cottage cheese is not used so often. When choosing this fermented milk product in a store or in the market, pay attention to its appearance. Curd with grains for making curd mass is less preferable than curd, which has a viscous and, as it were, "smearing" consistency. If you buy from the market, ask for a try. Do not use sour or rancid curds.
Step 2
Decide whether you want to cook sweet or salty curd mass this time. For the first one, you can choose almost any dried fruit or candied fruit, as well as jam, jam, confiture, chocolate or honey. For the second, spices, aromatic herbs are suitable - parsley, dill, cilantro, basil, vegetables. You can also make curd paste with fruits or berries, but no sweeteners. In this case, the tongue does not turn to call it sweet, because it will even be a little sour. But this is a pleasant sourness, it is inherent in many dishes related to a healthy diet.
Step 3
Prepare the "base": put the curd in a bowl, add 50-70 ml. milk and 2-3 egg yolks for every pound of cottage cheese. Needless to say, eggs should be as fresh as possible, and you should buy them only from a reliable manufacturer. Eggs from domestic hens are certainly tastier, but they do not always have a hygiene certificate to guarantee that you will not contract any disease from them, such as salmonellosis. Beat the resulting mass with a mixer at low speed.
Step 4
Add your chosen ingredients. Just do not overdo it: combining more than three flavors in one dish, it is very easy to make a mistake, and then one taste will overwhelm all the others. Usually a couple of additions are sufficient for the curd mass. For a sweet one, it can be raisins and apple pieces, chocolate and crushed hazelnuts or wild berries. This curd mass can be used for baking, or as an independent dish. It is delicious to smear the salted mass on sandwiches based on whole grain bread. For such a curd mass, you can choose, for example, chopped parsley and garlic or ground sweet paprika and sweet purple onions.
