Classic curd dishes are sweet, with sugar, jam, dried apricots and raisins. However, the options for using the product are not limited to them. Salty, spicy snacks and fillings are also prepared from high-quality, most often homemade, cottage cheese.
To obtain a paste-like mass, mayonnaise of varying degrees of fat content is used. It is he, among other things, that smooths out the pungency of garlic juice, and if mustard or its oil is included in the sauce, then the dishes acquire a completely indescribable flavor.
Curd with herbs and garlic - a homogeneous, slightly spicy curd mass. To bring its main components to the required, uniform state, a blender (immersion 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 grid or a rare metal sieve.
In most cases, such a dish is not subjected to any heat treatment, an exception may be the use of curd mass for filling pies fried in a pan. Therefore, all products for cooking should be taken only of the first freshness.
Cottage cheese is the basis of such a dish. Its consistency, graininess and fat content do not play a special role. Everyone can choose the one they prefer. But it should be borne in mind that the fatter the cottage cheese, the easier it is to stir and the mass will be easier to spread on bread or vegetables. Therefore, sour cream or mayonnaise is added to the low-fat one, and the fat-free one for a dietary dish is interrupted with a blender.
Any greens can be added - dill, parsley, cilantro, mint, basil, etc. It all depends on the type of dish prepared and personal preferences. It is undesirable to put green onions - the dish may taste bitter.
A homogeneous curd mass is brought to the desired taste by adding and seasoning with black pepper.
Cottage cheese with herbs and garlic can be served as an independent dish. This mass is spread on slices of bread, crispbread, fresh or fried vegetables (zucchini). With her, you can make Turkish unleavened pies from thin lavash. It is also perfect for stuffing fresh vegetables (tomatoes) or filling holiday profiteroles. It is very simple and easy enough to prepare a festive snack roll with tomato slices inside.
Ingredients:
Homemade cottage cheese - 400 gr.;
Fresh herbs to taste;
1/8 lemon juice;
Two cloves of garlic;
A tablespoon of fatty sour cream.
Cooking method:
1. Separate the washed and well-dried greens from the stems, cut them into small pieces and place them in a blender bowl or a small deep bowl.
2. Cut the garlic cloves into 3-4 pieces and send to the herbs. Lightly add salt and chop as finely as possible.
3. Combine the resulting mixture with half of the curd and moisten with lemon juice. Add salt if necessary, add the remaining cottage cheese and mix well again with a blender.
4. Curd mass is suitable as a paste, it can be spread on bread, slices of fresh tomatoes or halves of boiled eggs. Can be laid out on tartlets just before serving, or simply served on a plate, garnished with lemon rings and fresh herbs.
Ingredients:
Low-fat cottage cheese - 100 gr.;
Medium cucumber;
Dill greens - to taste;
Small clove of garlic;
Cooking method:
1. Lightly mash lumps of cottage cheese and large curds with a fork and transfer to a blender bowl.
2. Cut the peel off the cucumber in a thin layer, cut it into thin rings and add to the mashed curd.
3. Press the garlic here with the garlic press, put the 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 prepared curd mass with herbs and garlic on the crispbread, and put the dill sprigs on top.
Ingredients:
Two thin "Armenian" lavash;
Three boiled eggs;
One raw chicken egg (protein);
450 gr. homemade or fatty "factory" cottage cheese;
A small bunch of dill;
Refined sunflower oil.
Cooking method:
1. Mash the curd in a bowl with a fork or crush. Salt to your liking, add finely chopped dill, garlic chopped on a press and yolks grated by hand.
2. Stir the curd mass with a fork, lightly rubbing all the ingredients.
3. Cut the pita bread into rectangles measuring 10 by 12 cm. Coat one edge of each such piece well with whipped egg white, and on the opposite side (on the edge) put a spoonful of curd filling.
4. Roll the pieces of lavash into a roll and fry all sides in a small amount of vegetable fat.
5. To remove excess oil from the pies, put them out of the pan on a disposable towel (for 2-3 minutes) and only then on a plate.
Ingredients:
2-3 sprigs of fresh basil;
100 g fatty 18% cottage cheese;
A slice of garlic;
Ground black, or a mixture of peppers;
Two sprigs of dill;
Five firm, ripe tomatoes of the same size.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse dill and basil leaves under the tap and dry thoroughly to remove any remaining water.
2. In a bowl with cottage cheese put medium-sized chopped greens, chopped garlic through a press. Stir, grind twice using the finest grinder grid, and season with mayonnaise mixed with sour cream.
3. Add fine salt to your taste and taste, season with pepper and mix well again.
4. Rinse the tomatoes with cold water and pat dry with a towel. Cut each in half with a sharp knife, cutting in the middle with a zigzag, making two tulips out of each tomato. With a spoon in the middle, select the pulp and fill the empty space with the curd and herbs.
Ingredients:
Small young zucchini - 2 pcs.;
Two raw eggs;
300 gr. cottage cheese;
Several sprigs of dill and parsley;
Four tablespoons of white flour;
100 g 15% sour cream;
Three cloves of garlic;
Small carrot;
Medium beetroot.
Cooking method:
1. First, prepare the zucchini batter. To do this, beat the eggs well with a little salt (literally a pinch). Add flour and beat well again. The batter should be homogeneous, without admixture of flour lumps.
2. Wash the zucchini, lightly dry and cut into thin rings. It is advisable that the thickness does not exceed 0.6 cm. Then dip each such circle in batter and fry in well-heated vegetable oil on both sides.
3. Grind the curd through a fine metal sieve. Squeeze the garlic into it with a press, add carefully chopped, young dill and parsley (without the stems), salt and stir thoroughly.
4. Separately, use a fine grater to grate the carrots and beets and squeeze the juice out. Divide the curd mass in two. Mix one with two tablespoons of carrot juice, and the other with the same amount of beetroot juice.
5. When the zucchini is completely cool, place them on the lettuce leaves in two large, flat plates. Lubricate some of the zucchini with pink curd, and the rest with yellow.
6. You can make the original design of the edges. To do this, put the remnants of the multi-colored mixtures in a pastry bag and squeeze out the yellow mass along the edges of the pink, and the pink around the edges of the yellow.
Ingredients:
Two dense ripe tomatoes;
250 g cottage cheese, without grains;
A bunch of fresh dill;
Two small cloves of garlic;
2-3 fresh mint leaves.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse the mint leaves with sprigs of dill under cold running water and pat dry with a towel. Tear off the coarse stems from the dill and chop the herbs as finely as possible. Grind the mint leaves as well, but separately.
2. In a deep enamel bowl, combine cottage cheese with chopped mint, mayonnaise and finely grated garlic. Season to your liking with pepper, lightly salt and mix thoroughly again.
3. On a large sheet of foil or cling film, spread the curd mass and spread in an even one-centimeter layer. Sprinkle finely chopped dill on it evenly, and in the center lay a wide strip of tomatoes cut into small pieces.
4. Lifting the laid out layers together with the foil, wrap the roll. Make sure that it does not curl up like a "snail" and that the filling does not fall out at 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 solidify.
6. Serving to the table, remove the "packaging" and cut the curd roll with tomato filling into even slices.
7. Serve on lettuce leaves on the bottom of a shallow dish.
Ingredients:
Homemade or purchased fat cottage cheese - 300 gr.;
20 gr. homemade thickened cream or natural butter;
Ten ready-made profiteroles;
40 gr. 30% sour cream;
Six sprigs of fresh dill;
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 pat dry well with a linen napkin or disposable towel. Set the tomatoes aside and chop the dill very finely with scissors. Don't forget to leave a few twigs for serving.
2. In a small bowl combine cottage cheese with medium-sized chopped garlic, butter and walnut kernels. Kill all the ingredients with a blender into a homogeneous mass or twist them several times in a meat grinder.
3. Then add sour cream, chopped dill, a tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Mix well and bring to taste, season with salt and pepper.
4. Cut off not too thick "caps" with profiteroles with a sharp knife and fill with curd mass. They should be filled completely and even with a small slice. Cover each with "lids", slightly sliding them to the edge, and lay out on a flat plate, slightly receding from each other.
5. Cut two tomatoes in half, and then into small slices. Slightly drown one edge of the tomato slice in the curd filling, between the profiteroles and the "cap" (the second edge of the tomato should hang down). Arrange the dill together with the remaining, chopped tomato rings beautifully between the profiteroles.
Fresh cottage cheese is always white. Too greasy or homemade can have a characteristic slightly yellowish tint.
A quality product is neither too lumpy nor dry, nor does it contain excess whey.
Stale expired cottage cheese has a slight moldy smell and is slimy. It tastes very bad.
Be sure to rinse all greens thoroughly and dry them dry. The remaining water must not get into the cooking dish, otherwise it will quickly deteriorate.
It is better to take fine salt. Its crystals will disperse better in the curd mass, and it will be salted more evenly.
Excessively grainy cottage cheese, before twisting in a meat grinder, it is advisable to grind through a sieve, the mass will be more homogeneous.
Light snacks are always a great table decoration. Delicious, hearty, quick-to-prepare dishes attract the attention of guests. It is no secret that the combination of the simplest products turns out to be very tasty. Cottage cheese, herbs, garlic, tomato and cucumber fit this description. Together, these products make up an independent and mouth-watering dish, although cooking time is very short.
Cottage cheese, herbs and garlic are a great food combination. All ingredients together carry a huge amount of vitamins. Moreover, in the dish of 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 calorie-free dish.Doctors advise making such a snack because it is full of benefits. Curd is a source of calcium. It can be an excellent substitute for meat products, since it contains protein: 100 grams contains 16.5-18 grams of protein.
Satisfying hunger is another important feature of the snack. Cottage cheese, herbs, garlic do not interfere with losing weight even if you want to eat a dish in the evening. The curd mass is quickly absorbed and easily accepted by the body.
You can also add a tomato or cucumber to your snack. 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 is worth talking about the benefits and the harms. You may hear the opinion that this dairy product is harmful to the body. Don't believe the rumors. The presence of lactose in cottage cheese 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 how to make a curd snack with herbs.
Cottage cheese with herbs and garlic is a homogeneous mass. This dish does not need to be heat treated, so it is necessary to choose products of the first freshness.
As for the herbs, you can use anything except the green onions because they will add bitterness. You can also add a couple of mint leaves. This will only brighten the taste of the snack.
Choose the fat content of the curd according to your preferences. If you want to make a dietary meal, use a product with a fat content of 0-0.5%.
And you can also add cucumber and tomato if the curd is not completely chopped in a blender. Use vegetable oil or sour cream so that the dish does not taste dry. Just a little bit: one tablespoon will be enough.
The main ingredients of the curd snack with herbs:
First, cut the garlic into 4 pieces and place in a blender. Gradually add coarsely chopped greens to it. Next comes the curd and a slice of lemon. Stir all foods for a few minutes. Everything, your dish is ready!
The appetizer can be served in various ways: on slices of bread, on chopped vegetables, in tartlets.
Today dietary products are in great demand. People who want to quickly lose weight often start eating very small meals 1-2 times a day. Moreover, they believe that various "protein" bars are many times more useful than cottage cheese, boiled meat, vegetables. They are definitely wrong.
For proper weight loss, it is necessary to use "real", not chemically processed foods. Curd, for example, is the most important element in the diet. However, many people cannot eat it dry. This recipe will help you not only have a tasty and satisfying meal, but also lose those extra pounds. 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 herbs, peel the garlic, cut the peel from the cucumber. Then transfer the curd to a blender. Cut the cucumber into rings, then add it to the curd. First chop the garlic with a garlic press, put it in a blender bowl. After that, add the herbs, use salt and pepper to taste.
Beat all ingredients with a blender for 4-7 minutes. The mixture should be homogeneous, "smooth", without lumps. It spreads easily on bread.
Since the appetizer is dietary, 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 delicious dish. However, I want something "exotic", unusual. To the question of what to add so as not to spoil the taste, you can answer - avocado.
This fruit is very rich in vitamins. Moreover, using it, you do not need to add oil to the mass, since the avocado contains a fatty component. Don't 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 onions replace it.
First, prepare the curd by passing it through a sieve. If this is not possible, then just mash it with a fork. Carefully cut the avocado into two equal parts without touching the pit. Get it out. The pulp of the fruit must be mixed with cottage cheese.
Chop the herbs finely and transfer to a bowl with the rest. Swirl everything in a blender for a few minutes. The filling should be free of lumps. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
The dish needs to be cooled: put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes for the appetizer to improve its taste. Remember one important point: the filling cannot be prepared in advance.
Use avocado peels when serving. The boat shapes will decorate your table and surprise your guests. Cut a tomato or bell pepper into cubes on top of the filling.
You can also crumble some greens.
This snack 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:
First, wash and dry all food thoroughly. Take a bowl for the mixture, put the cottage cheese there. Add chopped herbs and garlic gradually. Whisk all ingredients with a blender until smooth.
Put mayonnaise and sour cream in the resulting snack. Then season with salt and pepper to taste. Mix everything again with a blender.
Cut the tomatoes in half and make small cuts. Shape the tomatoes into a "tulip" shape. Remove all the pulp and fill the empty space with the curd mass.
Spicy cottage cheese with sour cream is best used not for breakfast, but for dinner.
Lavash has become as common a product as cottage cheese. Moreover, you can make a lot of delicious dishes from it. Using Armenian lavash in the cooking process, you "get rid" of the "torment" with the dough.
This recipe, unfortunately, is not for those who really want to lose those extra pounds. The dish is extremely appetizing and tasty, but high in calories.
You will need the following ingredients:
Combine cottage cheese, herbs and 2 eggs. Spread the pita bread and spread the mixture evenly over it. Roll each sheet of pita bread into a roll.
This recipe requires heat treatment. Therefore, prepare an oiled baking dish in advance.
Place the filling wrapped in pita bread on a baking sheet. Then whisk the sour cream with 3 eggs, salt and pepper. Lubricate the pita bread with cottage cheese and herbs with the prepared mixture.
You need to bake the dish until the moment when a golden crust forms. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. The food cooks pretty quickly, so watch it carefully.
After baking, it is necessary to allow the pita bread to cool down. After a while, cut into small pieces and serve.
Alternatively, 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. The dish tastes like khachapuri.
If you want to surprise your guests, then this recipe is for you. An open pie with cottage cheese and herbs is very reminiscent of Caucasian cuisine in taste. When a piece of this wonderful dish gets into your mouth, a mountain landscape is immediately drawn in your mind.
Here's what you need:
Stir the curd with herbs. Then add 2 eggs and whisk the whole mixture. Prepare a baking dish. It should be well oiled.
Spread one sheet of dough on a baking sheet. Spread the resulting filling over it. The second sheet is the "roof" of the pie - they need to cover the curd with herbs. Remember to join the edges.
Make a wide hole in the center of the cake so that it can receive oxygen. Brush the dough with one egg.
The oven must be preheated to 180 degrees. Bake the dish until golden brown. Check the pie with a toothpick; if it is wet, the toothpick will be wet. Enjoy your meal!
Main Ingredients:
Rinse the greens under running water. Chop the dill. Cucumbers can be cut into cubes. You do not need to cut off the peel. It will add crunch and flavor to the dish.
Curd must be made into a homogeneous mass. Use a blender to do this. Add the rest of the ingredients to the resulting mass and mix thoroughly. 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.
Each hostess 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 specific rules for success. But there is a list of recommendations that will help you prepare an appetizer from cottage cheese and herbs so satisfying and appetizing that your guests will always ask for more.
Choose not too fatty cottage cheese. The high fat content of the dairy product produces juice that impairs the taste. The color of fresh good cottage cheese is white. Home may have a characteristic yellow tint.
A quality product should not contain large lumps.And also fresh cottage cheese should not be dry. There is serum in a quality product, but there is not much of it.
Expired cottage cheese smells like mold. You can also experience sour notes. Of course, such cottage cheese cannot be eaten.
If you have purchased grainy curd, do not despair. It can be turned into a homogeneous mass as follows: rub the curd through a sieve before mixing the ingredients with a blender.
Always choose greens to your taste. It must be rinsed and dried before cooking. The water needs to be removed because it will spoil the freshness of the dish.
Use fine salt. It will be absorbed much faster and more evenly.
The main thing is to cook with pleasure. This "ingredient" will enhance any snack!
You will learn more about how to cook cottage cheese with herbs in the following video.
Homemade cottage cheese is rich in proteins and calcium, essential for the body. Most people are used to eating the product in a sweet form, adding berries, raisins or dried apricots to it. But more and more often on festive tables you can find a spicy appetizer with cottage cheese and garlic filling, which are gaining popularity every day.
Recipe for making cottage cheese with garlic and herbs
Ingredients:
Caloric content: 170 kcal per 100 g.
If you don't have a blender at hand, you can grind the vegetables on a grater, and knead the cottage cheese well with a fork.
Ingredients:
Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Caloric content: in 100 g 160 kcal.
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Cooking time: 20-25 minutes.
Caloric content: 165 kcal per 100 g.
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Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Caloric content: 180 kcal / 100 g.
Ingredients:
Cooking time: 70 minutes.
Caloric content: 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 proven that the product is perfect as a savory snack, decorating any festive table.
Cottage cheese is widely used in the recipes 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 that use cottage cheese as a component. And if this product is usually associated with sweet desserts by some, this article focuses more on dishes that use salty and seasoned spices. Cottage cheese with herbs and garlic is just such a dish.
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 low-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. Knead the main product thoroughly with a fork, pouring in sour cream (you can use a blender to form a fluffy homogeneous mass). Finely chop all the greens. Mix with the mass prepared in a blender or manually. Squeeze the garlic with a press and mix with the main part. Salt and pepper to taste. If we want to get a cream paste that can be easily spread on a toast, it will not be superfluous to beat the whole mixture in a blender again. This 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 it is better not to beat in a blender, but to knead it by hand.
Thin Armenian lavash has taken root in our kitchens. With its help, you can prepare a lot of quick interesting dishes. Such dishes include cottage cheese with herbs and garlic, baked in. In addition, the main advantage is the absence of fiddling with the dough, since the Armenian product successfully replaces it.
Ingredients: half a kilo 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. Distribute the cooked mass evenly on the sheets of pita bread. We roll each lavash into a roll with cottage cheese and herbs. Put the rolls on a greased baking dish. Beat the sour cream with the remaining eggs, add salt and pepper to taste. We coat each rolled roll with cottage cheese, eggs and herbs with the resulting mass on top. We bake the dish in an oven heated to 180 degrees until golden brown (the product cooks very quickly - look, do not miss it, so that the dish does not burn). Take the finished baked goods out of the oven and let cool. Next - cut into portioned rolls and serve, laid out on a large plate.
Alternatively, you can make small rectangular envelopes from pita bread. Put the same filling inside and carefully wrap it crosswise. Spread on top. Bake under the same conditions, briefly. These envelopes taste like small khachapuri.
Can be prepared with the same filling. To do this, we buy puff pastry in the store, defrost it and roll it into thin sheets. Of course, if there is such a desire, you can make the dough yourself (here we are already using the most familiar and proven method). With the filling made according to the above recipe, we spread one sheet, and with the second we cover, connecting the edges. In the middle we leave a rather large hole so that the cake can breathe. Coat the top of the cake with a beaten egg. We bake in the oven at medium temperature until tender (check with a match).
This dish can also be categorized as fast food. You will need: three glasses of flour, a glass of water, a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil, three eggs, a pinch of soda, salt, 300 grams of loose cottage cheese, herbs.
We 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. We mix. We make thin small cakes from the dough (roll out with a rolling pin). Place the filling in the center of each cake and pinch the edges, making the cake flat. In a skillet in hot oil, quickly fry our cakes on both sides until golden brown. We take out on napkins to remove excess fat. Such a quick-cooked dish can be eaten immediately, hot, or you can put it in the refrigerator and serve, for example, for breakfast with sour cream sauce. It turns out very tasty. Especially children like to carry small "buns" from under the arm so that they simply do not have time to cook them!
Cottage cheese is just a universal dairy product in terms of its benefits, composition and variety of recipes, according to which you can prepare both simple snacks and real culinary masterpieces. Moreover, these dishes do not have to be sweet - cottage cheese goes well with salt, hot spices and aromatic herbs.
Curd snack - it is good because you can take not only fresh curd, but also one that is slightly stale in the refrigerator. If you mix everything, you get delicious balls that will surprise your guests with their unrivaled taste. After all, all ingenious is simple.
The recipe for a spicy cottage cheese snack 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 guests unexpectedly come to you, and you have not prepared any special treats, and the set of products in the refrigerator is the most common. The appetizer will go with cottage cheese or pickled cheese (suluguni, feta cheese, etc.), hard cheese or assorted of several varieties. You can mix feta cheese with cottage cheese - it will also be very tasty.
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