Classic curd dishes - sweet, with sugar, jam, dried apricots and raisins. However, the product application options are not limited to them. From high-quality, most often home-made, cottage cheese is prepared and brackish, spicy appetizers and fillings.
To obtain a paste-like mass, mayonnaise of various degrees of fat content is used. It is he who, among other things, smooths the sharpness of garlic juice, and if the sauce contains mustard, or its oil, then the dishes acquire a completely indescribable flavor.
Cottage cheese with herbs and garlic is a homogeneous, slightly spicy curd mass. To bring its main components to the necessary, uniform state, a blender (submersible or with a bowl) may be required. In the absence of this kitchen processor, you can take the most ordinary meat grinder with a very fine wire rack or a rare metal sieve.
Such a dish in most cases is not subjected to any heat treatment, the exception may be the use of cottage cheese for filling pies fried in a pan. Therefore, all products for cooking should be taken only the first freshness.
Cottage cheese is the basis of such a dish. Its consistency, graininess and fat content do not have a special role. Everyone can choose the one that prefers. But it should be noted that the fatter the curd, the easier it is to mix and the mass will be easier to spread on bread or vegetables. Therefore, sour cream or mayonnaise is added to low-fat, and fat-free for a diet dish is killed with a blender.
You can add any greens - dill, parsley, cilantro, mint, basil, etc. It all depends on the type of cooked dish and personal preferences. It is undesirable to put green onions - the dish may be bitter.
The homogeneous curd mass is brought to the desired taste, adding and seasoning with black pepper.
Cottage cheese with herbs and garlic can also be served as an independent dish. Such a mass is spread on slices of bread, bread, fresh or fried vegetables (zucchini). With it you can make Turkish fresh pies from thin pita bread. It is also great for stuffing fresh vegetables (tomatoes) or filling holiday profiteroles. Very simple and easy enough to prepare a festive snack roll with pieces of tomato inside.
Ingredients:
Homemade cottage cheese - 400 gr.;
Fresh greens to taste;
Juice 1/8 lemon;
Two cloves of garlic;
A tablespoon of fat sour cream.
Cooking method:
1. Separate washed and well-dried greens from the stems, cut medium-sized and place in a blender bowl or a small deep bowl.
2. Cut the cloves of garlic into 3-4 parts and send to the greens. Add a little salt and chop as finely as possible.
3. Combine the resulting mixture with half the cottage cheese and moisturize with lemon juice. If necessary, add salt, add the remaining cottage cheese and mix well again with a blender.
4. The curd mass is suitable as a paste, it can be spread on bread, circles of fresh tomatoes or half boiled eggs. It can be spread out before serving on tartlets or served simply on a plate, garnished with lemon rings, and fresh herbs.
Ingredients:
Fat-free cottage cheese - 100 gr.;
Medium sized cucumber;
Dill greens - to taste;
Small clove of garlic;
Cooking method:
1. Slightly mash the lumps of cottage cheese and large clumps with a fork and transfer to a blender bowl.
2. With a thin layer, cut the peel with a thin layer, cut it into thin rings and add to the mashed curd.
3. Here, also sell garlic-squeezed garlic, put chopped young dill and salt to taste.
4. To make the curd mass homogeneous, beat it with a blender. Whipping time depends on the power of the device and does not take more than three minutes.
5. Spread the finished curd mass with herbs and garlic on bread rolls, and lay dill branches on top.
Ingredients:
Two thin “Armenian” pita bread;
Three boiled eggs;
One raw chicken egg (protein);
450 gr homemade or fat "factory" cottage cheese;
A small bunch of dill;
Refined sunflower oil.
Cooking method:
1. Mash the cottage cheese in a bowl with a fork or a pusher. Salt to your liking, add finely chopped dill, garlic crushed on the press and yolks rubbed by hand.
2. Stir the curd with a fork, slightly rubbing all the ingredients.
3. Cut the pita bread with rectangles 10 by 12 cm in size. Well, smear one edge of each such piece with whipped protein, and on the opposite side (on the edge) put a spoonful of curd filling.
4. Roll the pieces of pita bread roll and fry all sides in a small amount of vegetable fat.
5. To remove excess oil from pies, put them out of the pan onto a disposable towel (for 2-3 minutes) and only then on a plate.
Ingredients:
2-3 branches of fresh basil;
100 gr. fat 18% cottage cheese;
Clove of garlic;
Ground black, or a mixture of peppers;
Two branches of dill;
Five dense ripe tomatoes of the same size.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse dill and basil leaves under a tap and thoroughly dry from any remaining water.
2. In a bowl with cottage cheese, put lightly chopped greens, crushed garlic through a press. Stir, grind twice, using the smallest grill of the meat grinder, and season with mayonnaise mixed with sour cream.
3. At your discretion and taste, add fine salt, season with pepper and mix well again.
4. Rinse the tomatoes with cold water and wipe them dry with a towel. Cut each in half with a sharp knife, cutting in the middle with a zigzag, make two “tulips” from each tomato. From the middle with a spoon, select the pulp and fill the empty space with cottage cheese and herbs.
Ingredients:
Small young zucchini - 2 pcs.;
Two raw eggs;
300 gr cottage cheese;
A few branches of dill and parsley;
Four tablespoons of white flour;
100 gr. 15% sour cream;
Three cloves of garlic;
Small carrot;
Medium sized beets.
Cooking method:
1. First prepare the zucchini batter. To do this, beat eggs well with a small amount of salt (literally with a pinch). Add flour and beat well again. The batter should be homogeneous, without the admixture of flour lumps.
2. Wash the zucchini, dry it slightly and cut into thin rings. It is desirable that the thickness does not exceed 0.6 cm. Then dip each such circle in the batter and fry in well-heated lean oil on both sides.
3. Through a fine metal sieve, grind the cottage cheese. Squeeze the garlic into it with a press, add the finely chopped, young greens of dill and parsley (without stems), add salt and mix thoroughly.
4. Separately, grate the carrots with beets and squeeze the juice from them. Divide the curd into two parts. Mix one with two tablespoons of carrot juice, and the second with the same volume of beetroot.
5. When the zucchini has cooled completely, lay them on lettuce leaves in two large, flat plates. Grease part of the marrow squash with a pink curd, and the rest yellow.
6. You can make the original design of the edges. To do this, put the remains of multi-colored mixtures in a pastry bag and squeeze the yellow mass along the edges of the pink, and pink on the edges of the yellow.
Ingredients:
Two dense ripe tomatoes;
250 gr cottage cheese, without grains;
A bunch of fresh dill;
Two small cloves of garlic;
2-3 leaves of fresh mint.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse mint leaves with sprigs of dill under cold running water and wipe dry with a towel. At the dill, tear off the coarse stems and chop the greens as finely as possible. Chop the mint leaves as well, but separately.
2. In a deep enameled bowl, mix the cottage cheese with chopped mint, mayonnaise and garlic grated in a fine grater. Season to your taste with pepper, lightly add salt and mix thoroughly again.
3. On a large sheet of foil or cling film, lay the curd mass and distribute in an even centimeter layer. Sprinkle evenly chopped dill on it, and in the center lay a wide strip of tomatoes cut into medium-sized pieces.
4. Raising the laid out layers together with the foil, wrap the roll. Make sure that he does not curl up with a “snail”, and the filling does not fall out around the edges.
5. Do not remove the foil from the roll, carefully wrap its edges and remove the “packaging” with the roll in the refrigerator for a couple of hours, to freeze.
6. When serving, remove the “packaging” and cut the curd roll stuffed with tomato in even slices.
7. Serve on lettuce leaves laid on the bottom of a shallow dish.
Ingredients:
Homemade or purchased fatty cottage cheese - 300 gr.;
20 gr. home-made thickened cream or natural butter;
Ten ready profiteroles;
40 gr 30% sour cream;
Six branches of fresh dill;
A small head of garlic;
Half a medium lemon;
Three small fleshy tomatoes;
20 gr. peeled walnut kernels.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse tomatoes and dill and dry well by patting them with a linen napkin or disposable towel. Put the tomatoes aside, and chop the dill very finely with scissors. Do not forget to leave a few twigs for serving.
2. In a small bowl, combine the cottage cheese with medium-sized chopped garlic, butter, and walnut kernels. Break all the components with a blender into a homogeneous mass or twist several times in a meat grinder.
3. Then add sour cream, chopped dill, a tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Mix well and bring the mass to taste by seasoning with pepper and salt.
4. From profiteroles with a sharp knife, cut off not too thick “caps” and fill with curd mass. They must be filled completely and even with a small pot. Cover each with “caps”, slightly moving them to the edge, and place them on a flat plate, slightly departing from each other.
5. Two tomatoes cut in half, and then medium-sized slices. Dip one edge of the tomato slice in the curd filling between the profiteroles and the “lid” (the second edge of the tomato should hang). Fill the dill with the remaining tomato chopped between the profiteroles.
Fresh cottage cheese is always white. Too greasy or homely may have a characteristic, slightly yellowish tint.
A high-quality product is not too lumpy and not dry, but also does not contain excess serum.
Stale expired cottage cheese has a faint mold smell and is slimy. It tastes very unpleasant.
Rinse all greens thoroughly and dry dry. The rest of the water should not get into the cooking dish, otherwise it will quickly deteriorate.
Salt is better to take small. Its crystals are better dispersed in the curd mass, and it will salt more evenly.
It is advisable to grind excessively grained cottage cheese before twisting in a meat grinder through a sieve, the mass will be more uniform.
Light snacks are always a great table decoration. Tasty, hearty, quick to prepare dishes attract the attention of guests. It's no secret that the combination of the simplest products is very tasty. Cottage cheese, herbs, garlic, tomato and cucumber fit this description. Together, these products are an independent and mouth-watering dish, although it takes very little time to prepare.
Cottage cheese, herbs and garlic are an excellent combination of products. All ingredients together carry a huge amount of vitamins. Moreover, in the dish from these products there is a lot of protein, and there are practically no carbohydrates.
The main feature of the combination of cottage cheese, herbs and garlic is that it is a non-nutritious dish.Doctors advise making such an appetizer, because it is full of advantages. Cottage cheese is a source of calcium. It can be an excellent substitute for meat products, because it contains protein: 100 grams contains 16.5-18 grams of protein.
Satisfying hunger is another important snack feature. Cottage cheese, herbs, garlic do not interfere with weight loss, even if you want to eat a meal in the evening. Curd mass is quickly absorbed, easily accepted by the body.
You can also add tomato or cucumber to the appetizer. This will not spoil the dish at all, on the contrary, it will add freshness. Another plus - the cooking process takes very little time, literally 5-10 minutes.
It’s worth talking about where is the good and where is the harm. You may hear the opinion that this dairy product is harmful to the body. Do not believe the rumors. The presence of lactose in the curd does not in the least reduce the importance of its important functions. Yes, lactose slows down weight loss, but does not harm the body at all.
Do not be afraid to eat cottage cheese with herbs and garlic in the evening: the calorie content of a dish from these products cannot be higher than 150 kcal.
It all depends on the fat content of the milk component.
Consider options for making a curd snack with greens.
Cottage cheese with herbs and garlic is a homogeneous mass. This dish does not need heat treatment, so you need to choose products of first freshness.
As for the greens, you can use everything except the green onions, because it will give bitterness. You can also add a couple of mint leaves. This will only brighten the taste of the snack.
Choose cottage cheese fat according to your preference. If you want to make a diet dish, use a product with a fat content of 0-0.5%.
And you can also add cucumber and tomato, if the cottage cheese is not completely crushed in a blender. To prevent the dish from tasting dry, use vegetable oil or sour cream. Just a little bit: one tablespoon will be quite enough.
The main ingredients of cottage cheese snacks with herbs:
To start, cut the garlic into 4 parts and place it in a blender. Gradually add coarsely chopped greens to it. Next is the cottage cheese and a slice of lemon. Stir all foods for several minutes. Everything, your dish is ready!
An appetizer can be served in various ways: on slices of bread, on chopped vegetables, in tartlets.
Today, diet products are in great demand. People who want to quickly lose weight often start to eat very small meals 1-2 times a day. Moreover, they believe that various “protein” bars are several times more useful than cottage cheese, boiled meat, vegetables. They are certainly wrong.
For proper weight loss, you need to use "real", not chemically processed foods. Cottage cheese, for example, is the most important element in a diet. However, many people cannot eat it “dry”. This recipe will help you not only tasty and satisfying to eat, but also lose weight. Such a dish is the key to a healthy diet.
To prepare a diet snack you will need:
First, prepare all the products for use: mash the cottage cheese a little, rinse the greens, peel the garlic, and cut the peel from the cucumber. Then put the cottage cheese in a blender. Cucumber must be cut into rings, then add it to the curd. Grind the garlic first with garlic press, put it in a blender bowl. After that, put the greens, use salt and pepper to taste.
Beat all products with a blender for 4-7 minutes. The mixture should be homogeneous, “smooth”, without lumps. It is easily spread on bread.
Since the dietary snack, it should be served on buckwheat bread. Garnish the “sandwich” with a sprig of dill and a slice of tomato.
Garlic, cottage cheese and herbs are a very simple but tasty dish. However, I want something "exotic", unusual. To the question, what to add in order not to spoil the taste, one can answer - avocado.
This fruit is very rich in vitamins. Moreover, using it, you do not need to add oil to the mass, since avocados contain a fatty component. Do not be afraid to experiment with the composition of the snack!
Products that are needed for cooking:
You do not need to use garlic in this recipe because onion replaces it.
First, prepare the cottage cheese, after passing it through a sieve. If this is not possible, just mash it with a fork. Carefully cut the avocado into two equal parts without touching the bone. Pull her out. The pulp of the fruit must be mixed with cottage cheese.
Finely chop the greens and transfer it to a bowl with the rest of the mass. Scroll all in a blender in a few minutes. The filling should be without lumps. Add salt and pepper to taste.
The dish needs to be cooled: put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes so that the snack improves its taste. Remember one important point: the filling can not be prepared in advance.
When serving, use avocado peel. Forms of "boats" will decorate your table and surprise guests. On top of the filling, cut the tomato or bell pepper into cubes.
And also you can crumble some greens.
This appetizer has a very pleasant aroma. The combination of garlic, herbs, cottage cheese and tomatoes is something extraordinary! The recipe, like all the previous ones, is simple, does not require any special skills.
Ingredients for cooking:
To begin with, thoroughly wash and dry all the products. Take a bowl for the mixture, put the cottage cheese there. Gradually add chopped herbs and garlic. Beat all products with a blender to obtain a homogeneous mixture.
Put mayonnaise and sour cream in the resulting snack. After that, salt and pepper to taste. Mix everything again with a blender.
Cut the tomatoes in half and make small cuts. Give the tomatoes a “tulip” shape. Remove all the flesh and fill the free space with the curd mass.
Spicy cottage cheese with sour cream is better not to eat for breakfast, but for dinner.
Pita bread has become as common a product as cottage cheese. Moreover, from it you can make a lot of delicious dishes. Using Armenian pita bread in the cooking process, you are "freed" from "torment" with the dough.
This recipe, unfortunately, is not for those who really want to lose extra pounds. The dish is extremely mouth-watering and tasty, but high-calorie.
You will need the following ingredients:
Combine cottage cheese, herbs and 2 eggs. Spread pita bread and evenly distribute the resulting mixture. Roll each sheet of pita bread into a roll.
The preparation of this recipe requires heat treatment. Therefore, prepare a greased baking dish in advance.
Put the filling wrapped in pita bread on a baking sheet. Then beat sour cream with 3 eggs, salt and pepper. Grease the pita bread with cottage cheese and herbs cooked mixture.
You need to bake the dish until the moment when a golden crust is formed. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. The product cooks pretty quickly, so watch it closely.
After baking, allow time for the pita to cool. After a while, cut into small pieces and serve.
As an option, you can make pita bread stuffed in the form of envelopes. To do this, you need to wrap cottage cheese with herbs in pita bread, but crosswise. The baking time remains the same. It tastes like khachapuri.
If you want to surprise your guests, then this recipe is right for you. An open pie with cottage cheese and herbs is very similar to the taste of Caucasian cuisine. When a piece of this wonderful dish gets into your mouth, a mountain landscape is immediately drawn in your thoughts.
Here is what you need:
Mix cottage cheese with herbs. Then add 2 eggs and beat the whole mixture. Prepare a baking dish. It should be well oiled.
Spread one sheet of dough on a baking sheet. Distribute the resulting filling on it. The second sheet is the "roof" of the pie - they need to close the cottage cheese with herbs. Remember to connect the edges.
Make a wide hole in the center of the cake so that it can receive oxygen. Lubricate the dough with one egg.
The oven must be heated to 180 degrees. Bake the dish until golden brown. Check the cake with a toothpick, if it is wet - the toothpick will be wet. Enjoy your meal!
The main ingredients:
Rinse the greens with running water. Chop the dill. Cucumbers can be diced. The peel does not need to be cut. She will give a crunch and aroma to the dish.
Cottage cheese must be made a homogeneous mass. Use a blender for this. Add the rest of the ingredients to the resulting mass and mix thoroughly. You can serve the dish in different ways: on slices of bread, in egg white or tomatoes.
However, a salty snack is best combined with thin pita bread.
Every housewife wants her dish to be very tasty, and especially so that guests like it. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to “please” these factors.
There are no special rules for success. But there is a list of recommendations that will help prepare a snack of cottage cheese and herbs so hearty and appetizing that your guests will always ask for supplements.
Choose not too fat cottage cheese. The high fat content of the dairy product gives juice that degrades the taste. The color of fresh good cottage cheese is white. A home may have a distinctive yellow hue.
A quality product should not have large lumps.And also fresh cottage cheese should not be dry. There is serum in a quality product, but not much.
Overdue cottage cheese smells of mold. You can also feel “sour” notes. Of course, such cottage cheese cannot be eaten.
If you purchased grainy curd, do not despair. It can be turned into a homogeneous mass as follows: wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve before mixing the ingredients with a blender.
Always choose greens to your taste. Before cooking, it must be washed and dried. Water needs to be removed because it will spoil the freshness of the dish.
Use fine salt. It absorbs much faster and more evenly.
The main thing is to cook with pleasure. This “ingredient” will improve any snack!
You will learn more about how to cook cottage cheese with herbs from the next video.
Homemade cottage cheese is rich in proteins and calcium, which are necessary for the body. Most people are used to using the product in a sweet form, adding berries, raisins or dried apricots to it. But more and more often on holiday tables you can find a savory appetizer with cottage cheese and garlic filling, which are gaining popularity every day.
The recipe for cottage cheese with garlic and herbs
Ingredients:
Calories: 170 kcal per 100 g.
If there is no blender at hand, then the vegetables can be grated, and the cottage cheese is well kneaded with a fork.
Ingredients:
Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Calorie content: 100 g 160 kcal.
Ingredients:
Cooking time: 20-25 minutes.
Calories: 165 kcal per 100 g.
Ingredients:
Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Calories: 180 kcal / 100 g.
Ingredients:
Cooking time: 70 minutes.
Calories: 686 kcal / 100 g.
Most often, cottage cheese is used as a dessert: sugar, berries, jams or fruits are added to it. But professional chefs and housewives have proved that the product is perfect as a savory snack, decorating any holiday table.
Cottage cheese is widely used in the recipe of dishes of various cuisines of the world as a delicious and healthy product. It contains trace elements and vitamins in large quantities. There are many famous dishes with cottage cheese as an ingredient. And if this product, as a rule, is associated in some with sweet desserts, in this article more attention is paid to dishes that use salted and seasoned with spices. Cottage cheese with herbs and garlic just belongs to such dishes.
It is characterized by a sharp taste, pleasant aroma, the ability to spread on croutons or dried bread. Preparing such an appetizer (cottage cheese with herbs and garlic) is quite simple. Cooking takes just a few minutes.
We need: half a kilogram of cottage cheese, half a glass of non-fat sour cream, a bunch of green onions, a bunch of greens (dill, cilantro, parsley, basil), a couple of cloves and pepper.
We prepare cottage cheese with herbs and garlic according to the following scheme. We knead the main product with a fork, pouring sour cream (you can use a blender to form a lush, homogeneous mass). Finely chop all the greens. Mix with the mass prepared in a blender or manually. Squeeze the garlic and mix with the main part. Salt and pepper to taste. If we want to get a cream paste, easily spread on toast, it will not be superfluous to whip the whole mixture in a blender again. Such a cream can be packaged in jars and kept in the refrigerator. It is very convenient, for example, to use ready-made pasta in the morning for delicious sandwiches, but in this case we recommend putting less garlic there. If served as a salad, then in a blender it is better not to beat, but to knead manually.
Thin Armenian pita bread took root in our kitchens. With it, you can cook a lot of quick interesting dishes. Cottage cheese with herbs and garlic baked in also belongs to such dishes. In addition, the main advantage is the lack of fuss with dough, since the Armenian product successfully replaces it.
Ingredients: a pound of low-fat cottage cheese, two (thin), five eggs, half a glass of sour cream, assorted greens.
Mix greens, cottage cheese, two eggs until smooth. On the sheets of pita bread we evenly distribute the cooked mass. We twist each pita bread into a roll with cottage cheese and herbs. Spread the rolls on a greased baking dish. Beat sour cream with the remaining eggs, add salt and pepper to taste. Each rolled roll with cottage cheese, egg and greens is greased with the resulting mass from above. We bake the dish in the oven, heated to 180 degrees to a golden crust (the product is cooked very quickly - look do not miss, so that the dish does not burn). We take out the finished baked goods from the oven and allow to cool. Next - cut into portioned rolls and serve, laid out on a large plate.
As an option, small rectangular envelopes can be made from pita bread. Inside, put the same stuffing and carefully wrap it crosswise. Top smear. Bake under the same conditions for a short time. These envelopes are similar in taste to small khachapuri.
You can cook with the same filling. To do this, buy puff pastry in the store, defrost and roll into thin sheets. Of course, if there is such a desire, you can prepare the dough yourself (we already use the most familiar and proven way here). Stuffing made according to the above recipe, spread one sheet, and cover with the second, connecting the edges. In the middle we leave a rather large hole so that the cake can breathe. Top the pie with a beaten egg. Bake in the oven at medium temperature until cooked (check with a match).
This dish can also be classified as fast. You will need: three glasses of flour, a glass of water, a couple of spoons of vegetable oil, three eggs, a pinch of soda, salt, 300 grams of friable cottage cheese, greens.
Drive one egg into the flour, put soda, vegetable oil. We make the dough and set it aside to rest. We prepare the filling: finely chop the boiled eggs, finely chop the greens. Combine with cottage cheese. Mix. From the dough we make thin small cakes (roll out with a rolling pin). Place the filling in the center of each tortilla and pinch the edges, making the tortillas flat. In a frying pan in hot oil, quickly fry our flat cakes on both sides until they are rosy. We take it out on napkins to remove excess fat. Such a quickly cooked dish can be eaten immediately, hot, or it can be refrigerated and served, for example, for breakfast with sour cream sauce. It turns out very tasty. Especially children like to drag small “buns” from under their hands so that you just don’t have time to cook them!
Cottage cheese is simply a universal dairy product according to its benefits, composition and variety of recipes, according to which you can cook both simple snacks and real culinary masterpieces. Moreover, these dishes do not have to be sweet - the cottage cheese goes well with salt, hot spices and aromatic herbs.
Cottage cheese snack - it’s good in that you can take not only fresh cottage cheese, but also one that is slightly in the refrigerator. If you mix everything, you get very tasty balls that will surprise your guests with their unsurpassed taste. After all, everything ingenious is simple.
The recipe for spicy appetizers from cottage cheese can be immediately entered into several sections of your culinary notebook. This is a quick recipe, a holiday recipe, and a budget option for a quick and effective snack. He will especially help out if the guests suddenly came to you, and you did not prepare any special treats, and the set of products in the refrigerator is the most usual. The appetizer will go to cottage cheese or brine cheese (suluguni, feta cheese, etc.), hard cheese or assorted several varieties. You can mix feta cheese with cottage cheese - it will also be very tasty.
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