To cheer yourself up, sometimes it's enough just to make delicious butter-fried curd balls. Such a delicious treat can hardly be found in a store. However, even if you succeed, the quality of the product is unlikely to be up to par. Home option miniature donuts will be much softer and more magnificent. Air balls can be served with fresh fruit... They will be no less tasty with sour cream, condensed milk, jam, chocolate paste or custard... Here you can experiment for your own pleasure.

Cooking time - 40 minutes.

Servings Per Container - 8.

Ingredients

You don't have to search long to make delicious, tender, yummy fried curd balls. necessary ingredients... All the products from which they are made are very simple and affordable:

• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• fine-grained cottage cheese - 450 g;
• flour - 2 tbsp.;
• vanilla - 1 pinch;
• granulated sugar- ½ st .;
• soda - 1 pinch;
• vegetable oil- for frying.

How to make delicious butter-fried curd balls

Mastering the recipe for making delicious curd balls that are fried in oil is as easy as shelling pears. However, the result will definitely not disappoint, since no culinary secrets there is no need to own.

1. If all the ingredients for preparing an appetizing delicacy are prepared, then without any delay you can start creating a small gastronomic masterpiece. The first step is to mix the eggs with the cottage cheese. Granulated sugar is poured onto them. Stir the mass with an ordinary fork until smooth.

1. In the resulting mixture, you must add 1 glass of flour, which was previously mixed with soda. Everything should be mixed carefully.

1. Another glass of flour will need to be poured into a separate deep plate. In it, in small portions using the most ordinary spoon, you need to spread the dough. Use your hands to form small balls from each portion.

On a note! It is very important to use dry breading utensils.

1. Now you should pick up suitable dishes... It's great if you have a cast iron pot. If not available, you can use an unenamelled saucepan. Vegetable oil is poured into the selected container. The dishes with him must be put on the stove and set medium fire... When the butter gets hot, we need to put our curd balls into it one by one.

Note! Before placing each piece in hot oil, it must be thoroughly rotated in your fingers so that the excess flour crumbles or is absorbed into the dough.

1. Curd balls must be roasted until formed appetizing crust golden hue.

1. Ready fried balls from the curd mass must be transferred to napkins or paper towels. This will remove any excess oil left over from frying.

1. That's all! Delicious butter-fried curd balls are ready! They can be sprinkled with grated chocolate, nut crumbs, or icing sugar... They are delicious in any form!

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Video recipe

To make the preparation of curd balls, which are fried in oil, extremely simple, you should use the video instruction:

The curd balls cook very quickly and are eaten even faster. They turn out to be incredibly tender on the inside, crispy on the outside and very, very tasty. Dessert is also good because any housewife usually has products for it. So, we read the recipe and go to prepare curd balls.

Products for curd balls

You will need these simple products:

• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• cottage cheese of any fat content - 200 g. Cottage cheese is suitable even from the freezer, but it must be completely defrosted and squeezed out of the liquid, if it appears.
• granulated sugar - 3 tablespoons;
• salt - 1 pinch;
• baking powder (baking powder for dough) - 1 tsp;
• premium flour - 1.5 cups;
• odorless vegetable oil - 0.5 l;
• icing sugar - 50 g.

This amount of food is enough for you to prepare a small portion of balls. They are enough only for evening tea drinking for a family of 3-4 people. If you are expecting guests or want the dessert to remain the next day, then prepare balls from a double portion of food.

How to make a dough for curd balls?

The dough is made elementary:

• Sift flour through a sieve and mix with baking powder.
• Pass the cottage cheese through a meat grinder or rub through a small metal strainer. This is necessary in order to dairy product there were no extra lumps.
• Beat eggs into cottage cheese and add sugar and salt. Stir the mixture until smooth.
• Pour into curd base flour and knead the dough with a spoon. It should turn out to be very soft, but so that you can mold balls from it with your hands. If the dough turns out to be liquid, then add a couple more tablespoons of flour to it.

How to fry curd balls?

The frying technology is as follows

• Sprinkle some flour on a large flat plate and spread it evenly.
• Using a coffee spoon, scoop up some curd dough and put it on flour. Using your hands, roll the dough into a ball. Before frying, fold the balls on cutting board powdered with flour. Keep the balls small because they will approximately double in size when fried. You can make stuffed balls if you like. To do this, put a piece of chocolate or any nut inside each portion of the dough.
• Heat the oil in a deep, tall saucepan. As soon as a slight smoke appears over the oil, reduce the power of the stove to medium. If this is not done, then the balls in very hot oil will burn on the outside, and inside may not bake. Determine the readiness of the oil by dipping into it small piece dough - it should pop up quickly and, when frying on one side, turn over to the other side on its own.
• Place only 3-4 balls in hot oil at a time. If you put more of them, then when the balls swell, they will prevent each other from turning over. Also from a large number balls, the oil cools faster and the balls may not bake.
• Use a slotted spoon to remove the blush balls from the oil and place them immediately on paper towels. The paper will absorb excess grease from the baked goods.
• Put the balls dried from butter in an even layer on a dish and rub with powdered sugar.

How to serve curd balls?

Except with powdered sugar and this classic way serving dessert, balls can be decorated in another way:

• Drizzle over melted dark chocolate and sprinkle with coconut.
• Dip the balls in the jam syrup and roll in the white chocolate chips.
• Serve condensed milk to the balls, in which everyone at the table can dip them.

You will find another recipe for curd balls in this video. The hostess also puts sour cream in it.

Such a dish - good method to dispose of cottage cheese, which the hand does not rise to throw away, because until a third-party smell appears, and there is no desire to eat raw, because the cottage cheese has been in the refrigerator for several days and has lost its original freshness. Naturally, such a dish can also be prepared from a completely fresh product. Curd balls are a dish from youth. The taste of the dish is familiar and pleasant and will please even the fastidious.

Therefore, meet the recipe for curd balls.

So, the following products will come in handy:

About three hundred grams of cottage cheese

5 or 6 level tablespoons of sugar

Fresh chicken egg

Half a level teaspoon of baking soda

One and a half cups sifted flour

Vegetable oil

Making curd balls

Surely, any housewife is used to turning not the freshest cottage cheese into cheesecakes. But now try to make curd balls - this is also painfully simple and more delicious. Stir in a cup the right products- eggs and cottage cheese, sugar, flour and soda. You should have a very thick mixture.

The dough should not stick to your hands when you knead it. Then you need to throw the acquired dough to rest for 20 minutes - so it will become more tied. Then pour the oil into a deep-frying pan and bring it to a boil. There is no need to cook on a very high heat, because we want our curd balls to be fried not only on the surface, but also from the inside.

The dough needs to be rolled out into sausages, but not very thick. Then, using a sharp knife, you need to cut the dough into small pads. It is necessary to make balls from the pillows by rolling them in your hands. Then the balls must be deep-fried, just make sure that the cottage cheese does not stick to the bottom. The fried ready-made balls must be put on a sieve in order for the excess oil to glass. Then you can sprinkle the curd balls sweet powder... Also, curd balls with whipped cream, cream or jam, honey are very tasty. You can even call them curd donuts and serve for tea.

Recipe for savory and fluffy curd balls

So, another fascinating recipe for cottage cheese balls, which will definitely please both you and your children.

Here's what you need for this recipe:

Flour - 2 cups

Testicles - 2 pieces

Cottage cheese - half a kilogram

Teaspoon of baking soda

A tablespoon of sugar

Powder sweet

Frying oil
Recipe for making a dish "fried curd balls in oil":
Stir the eggs and sugar, quench the soda with vinegar. Stir these ingredients together with vinegar and egg, sugar, flour. Then from the mass that you have left, make balls. Heat any vegetable oil and fry the curd balls until a crust forms.

Before serving the balls, you must sprinkle them with powder.

Curd balls - delicious nutritious snack, which can be prepared both for breakfast and for any holiday.

Classic curd balls fried in oil

Simplest cooking option, which many probably know. Children like these balls very much.

Required products:

• 0.5 kg of flour;
• egg;
• 2 tablespoons of sugar;
• a spoonful of vinegar and half a small spoonful of baking soda;
• 0.25 kg of cottage cheese;
• salt and vanillin to taste;
• vegetable oil - how much will it take.

Cooking process:

1. Mix sugar, salt and egg, whisk lightly. At this point, you can add vanillin.
2. We spread the cottage cheese and soda there, and then the flour, constantly stirring the mass, so that it is homogeneous.
3. We form balls from the curd dough and dip them into boiling vegetable oil, where we keep them until they become ruddy and golden.

Step-by-step recipe for baking with cheese

A recipe for those who don't want to mess with frying and want a less fatty dish.

Required products:

• 50 grams of hard cheese;
• fresh herbs, spices;
• 4 tablespoons flour;
• egg;
• 0.2 kg of cottage cheese.

Cooking process:

1. Mix the egg with cottage cheese, add spices to your liking, and then flour and bring until smooth.
2. Separately mix grated cheese with chopped herbs.
3. We form small balls from the curd mass, make a depression inside, fill it with cheese and herbs and cover it with cottage cheese on top, so that we get a round shape again.
4. We send the blanks to the oven for 30 minutes, turning on the heating to 190 degrees.

Cooking in the oven

The balls in the oven are not too high in calories, light, but the taste is in no way inferior to those cooked in oil.

Required products:

• five grams of baking powder;
• one egg;
• 40 grams of sugar;
• 0.250 grams of cottage cheese;
• 0.150 grams of flour;
• salt to your taste.

Cooking process:

1. Combine the egg, sugar, cottage cheese and salt in a container, mix well.
2. Put flour and baking powder there. As a result, the mass should be slightly sticky.
3. We make small balls, put on a baking sheet and cook for about 30 minutes at 180 degrees in a preheated oven.

Filled with condensed milk

Crunchy crust on the outside soft filling inside - all these are curd balls with condensed milk.

Required products:

• about 0.4 liters of vegetable oil;
• 200 grams of flour;
• 2 eggs;
• 30 grams of sugar;
• a spoonful of baking powder;
• 0.2 kg of boiled condensed milk;
• vanillin to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Combine eggs with mashed cottage cheese, add sugar, vanillin and stir.
2. Pour in the flour mixed with baking powder, bring the mixture until smooth.
3. Form a small cake from the curd mass, put a spoonful of condensed milk there, secure the edges so that a ball forms.
4. Place all prepared balls in boiling vegetable oil and fry until golden brown.

Delicious curd balls in chocolate

An option for cooking delicious and healthy dessert without heat treatment.

Required products:

• 0.5 kg of cottage cheese;
• 3 large spoons of milk;
• dark chocolate bar.

Cooking process:

1. From the specified amount of cottage cheese, you need to form small balls and remove them for a while in the refrigerator so that they freeze.
2. While they are cooling, we melt the chocolate, combine with the warmed milk until smooth.
3. Dip the products into the chocolate mixture so that it evenly covers them and put them back in the refrigerator until they solidify, after which you can serve.

Deep fried

Deep-fried curd balls are fluffy and very appetizing, and cooked much easier than on the stove.

Required products:

• a large spoonful of sugar;
• a small spoonful of baking soda;
• 0.1 liters of vegetable oil;
• 2 eggs;
• 0.2 kg flour;
• 250 grams of cottage cheese;
• add salt to your liking.

Cooking process:

1. We drive the contents of the eggs into a deep bowl, add sugar, flour, cottage cheese, salt there and interrupt everything until smooth with a mixer or blender. A fairly thick mass should come out, slightly sticking to the hands.
2. Soaked cold water with our hands we make small balls from all the dough and send them to the deep fryer. Pour oil into it and heat it up to 190 degrees. We keep the balls in it until they become a beautiful golden color.

Original curd - coconut balls

Cottage cheese goes very well with coconut flakes, to be convinced of this, it is enough to use this recipe.

Required products:

• a spoonful of vanillin;
• 0.25 kg of cottage cheese;
• 6 large spoons of sugar;
• one egg;
• one and a half glasses of flour;
• two tablespoons of coconut flakes;
• the required amount of vegetable oil for frying.

Cooking process:

1. First, mix the sugar with the egg, beat a little, add the cottage cheese and baking powder, then coconut flakes and flour. From all these ingredients, we get a slightly sticky mass. Before forming the blanks, it is advisable to let it stand for 20 minutes.
2. We mold small balls. Note that they will increase slightly during cooking. We send them to a container with pre-heated vegetable oil and cook until golden brown.

Recipe in semolina

In this variant of cooking, semolina acts as a kind of breading, and gives the balls a crunchy taste.

Required products:

• 150 grams of sugar;
• 0.1 kg semolina;
• four eggs;
• 0.5 kg of cottage cheese;
• two glasses of flour;
• a spoonful of soda and vegetable oil for frying.

Cooking process:

1. We put cottage cheese in a container, crush it a little with a fork so that it becomes more uniform and without lumps. Then add to it all the specified ingredients except semolina, knead.
2. From this curd mixture we mold balls that are not very large in size, roll them well in semolina and immerse them in boiling vegetable oil, where we keep them until they change color, it should turn golden.

How to make a cake from curd balls?

Of course, many have heard about cottage cheese balls, but what about a cake made of them? It turns out that you can make such a dessert, and even with chocolate.

Required products for balls:

• 0.25 kg of cottage cheese;
• 3 tablespoons of starch;
• two yolks;
• a large spoonful of sugar;
• 40 grams of coconut flakes.

Required products for the test:

• 5 grams of baking powder;
• four eggs;
• 3 large spoons of cocoa;
• 2 large spoons of starch;
• about 30 grams of sugar;
• half a bar of dark chocolate.

Cooking process:

1. Let's start the process by making balls. They are made very simply, it is enough to put all the indicated ingredients for their preparation into a deep container, mix well until a homogeneous consistency and mold small round pieces. You do not need to fry the blanks, we put them in a mold for the future cake at some distance from each other.
2. Moving on to the ingredients for the dough. Beat the yolks with sugar and add melted chocolate to them. In another bowl, do the same with the proteins until foam forms.
3. Separately mix the remaining bulk products and pour this mixture into chocolate mass... And then carefully add the protein foam there.
4. Pour the dough into the balls so that it is evenly distributed over the shape, and cook at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. If desired, drizzle with melted white chocolate on top.

Fried curd balls - the taste of childhood! For you - 7 recipes: classic, with cheese, dried fruits, chocolate.

• cottage cheese (at least 15% fat) - 250 g,
• granulated sugar - 2 tablespoons,
• table chicken egg - 1 pc.,
• vanilla sugar - 2 tablespoons,
• baking soda - ½ tsp,
• table vinegar ( lemon juice) - 1 tsp,
• wheat flour ( top grade) - 2 tbsp.,
• fine-crystalline sea or table salt - pinch,
• oil (deodorized) - 400 ml.

Separately break egg in a small bowl and add salt, granulated sugar and flavoring (vanillin, zest or coffee extract). Mix the mixture thoroughly with a whisk until smooth.

Then add the cottage cheese (in order for the balls to be more tender, the cottage cheese must be grated through a sieve or interrupted with a blender).

Then add soda, quenched with vinegar.

Gradually knead a soft, tender dough.

Pinch off small pieces from the dough, and roll up balls the size of a nut. To make it easier to do, we moisten our hands with sunflower oil.

Put curd balls in the heated butter and cook them over low heat so that they are well fried inside.

We put the balls in portions, as they increase in size during cooking.
It is important to warm up the oil well at this stage!

Use a slotted spoon to remove the balls on a paper towel to remove the remaining oil.

Then we transfer them to a dish and sprinkle with powder if desired.

Recipe 2: fried curd balls with semolina

To taste, such balls of cottage cheese resemble delicate cottage cheese donuts.

• cottage cheese - 400 gr
• eggs - 2 pcs.
• salt - ½ tsp
• sugar - 2 tablespoons
• flour - 6 tablespoons
• soda, slaked with vinegar - ½ tsp.
• icing sugar - 5 tablespoons
• vegetable oil for frying
• semolina - 3 tbsp.

Knead the dough from eggs, salt, sugar, cottage cheese, soda, flour. At the same time, heat the cooking oil in a deep bowl.

From the dough, form balls with a diameter of no more than two centimeters with your hands and roll them in semolina.

Fry curd balls, rolled in semolina, in heated oil over low heat, stirring them with a fork for even browning.

Put the finished donuts with a slotted spoon on a dish covered with paper napkins... Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Recipe 3: fried curd balls in oil (step by step photos)

• Homemade cottage cheese 9% - 300 g
• Flour - 1 tbsp.
• Chicken eggs - 1 pc.
• Sugar - 4 tablespoons
• Salt - 1 pinch
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Refined vegetable oil - for deep fat

In a bowl, combine cottage cheese, flour, eggs, sugar, salt, baking powder and mix thoroughly. You may need a little more flour or a little less, the dough should be soft and easily roll into balls.

Roll walnut-sized balls from the resulting dough.

Heat refined vegetable oil, lower a small piece of dough. If the dough has floated up, the oil has warmed up, and you can lower the curd balls (do not put many balls at once, they should "float" freely in the oil). Fry until golden brown, stirring occasionally.

Take out the balls on a plate covered with paper towel to make the glass excess oil.

The curd balls are ready. Bon Appetit!

Recipe 4: fried curd balls with prunes

Combination of curd dough flavors, apricot jam and the prune filling is just wonderful!

• cottage cheese - 300 g
• chicken egg - 2 pcs.
• semolina - 50 g
• pitted prunes - 100-120 g
• salt to taste

For filing:

• sour cream
• butter
• apricot jam (jam) or liquid honey
• chopped nuts

Transfer the cottage cheese to a deep plate, use a blender to bring to a pasty state (or grind through a sieve). If the cottage cheese contains a lot of liquid, it must first be thrown onto a sieve, since excess liquid can negatively affect the shape of the balls during cooking.

Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Put the yolks to the curd, add salt, mix.

Pour semolina, mix, leave the dough for 30 minutes.

Add a pinch of salt to the whites, beat until firm peaks.

Stir in whipped protein mass into the curd dough.

Form cakes from 1 tablespoon of curd dough, put prunes in the middle, mold balls out of cakes with hands moistened with water.

The prunes must be soft, so they must be soaked in warm water and give it time to absorb moisture (1-2 hours).

Boil salted water and boil the curd balls for 5-7 minutes (after surfacing and boiling).

You can try to boil one test ball for a start: if it disintegrates during cooking, add to curd mass a little more semolina, if it turned out too tough - add cottage cheese, well, if the ball keeps its shape, then the proportions of the dough are met, and you can start the main cooking.

While the balls are boiling, heat up the sour cream and melt the butter, pour into a gravy boat or immediately onto portioned plates into which the balls are laid out after boiling. Top with liquid honey or apricot jam(jam), sprinkle with chopped nuts.

Curd balls with prunes are ready! Bon Appetit!

Recipe 5: curd balls with dried apricots, fried in oil

• Cottage cheese - 200 g
• Chicken egg - 2 pieces
• Slaked soda vinegar - 0.5 tsp
• Sugar - 6 tablespoons
• Dried apricots - 100 g
• Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp
• Flour - 2 tbsp
• Semolina - 1 glass

Mash cottage cheese with a fork and add sugar. Mix everything thoroughly.

Add soda slaked with vinegar... Mix.

Add eggs.

Mix.

Then add flour and knead the dough.

The dough is ready.

Dried apricots need to be washed, remove excess moisture with a paper towel. Cut into 4 pieces. We take a piece of dough. We make a cake with our hands and put dried apricots in the middle. Rolls the dough into a ball.

Dip each ball in semolina.

Pour a lot of oil into the pan so that the balls float in it like donuts. Fry the balls over medium heat until golden brown.

Then we spread it on a dish covered with paper or napkins, but better with paper such as A4 sheets. So that the excess oil is absorbed into it.

Our balls are ready, bon appetit!