Sometimes we think about how to cook such a tasty, healthy, light and unusual, and even so as not to stand at the stove for half a day. And then it seems that it’s still easier to go buy a dietary yummy than to do it yourself, a miracle recipe comes to the rescue - a cottage cheese casserole in a double boiler. The beauty is that there are a huge number of options for this simple dish, and it’s not difficult to come up with something new yourself!
From this article you will learn the basic principles and recipes of cottage cheese casseroles and cheesecakes cooked in a double boiler.
Let's start with the simplest, traditional recipe, where there are no additional ingredients like flour, semolina, or at least candied fruits or nuts.
If the too low-fat casserole does not suit you and you want to fix the delicate creamy taste, add sour cream to the recipe. It is best to take bold or even rustic for greater juiciness.
Since, due to this, the texture of the mass is significantly heavier, in order to maintain the airy consistency of the souffle, we will beat the eggs separately.
We select the desired mode and prepare the dish for half an hour or 40 minutes.
It is possible to remove the finished sour cream casserole from the form of a double boiler only after complete cooling, as it will turn out to be very tender. We do this with a wide wooden spatula.
Now try to make a berry dessert. Best of all, the curd flavor will sparkle if supplemented with sour cherry or fragrant strawberries.
Instead of cherries, you can add black currants, but you will need to take it one and a half times less, gooseberries or raspberries.
Fruit combinations are also good, such as half an apple and cherry or ½ pear and 100 g of fresh apricots.
You can cut the fruit at your own discretion - apricots and plums can remain halves, berries - whole, but apples and pears or three on a coarse grater, so the consistency will become more juicy, and the taste will be saturated, because the cottage cheese is completely saturated with juice. Or we cut them into medium-sized slices, this will make the slices more decorative.
When it seems that due to the fruit the dough is too thin, add 2 tbsp. To the amount indicated in the recipe. l semolina and let stand 10 - 15 minutes until the cereal swells.
Well, what if a family requires something more satisfying for breakfast than fruit desserts?
Prepare cottage cheese casserole with rice. It will take only 100 g: boil in advance and cool or simply use the porridge left over from the evening.
Cooking rice and cottage cheese casserole in a double boiler for 40 - 45 minutes. Serve warm or cooled, it will still be delicious, with ice cream, jam, sprinkled with powdered sugar or cinnamon.
Less satisfying, but even more useful will be a dessert with pumpkin. The beauty of this dish is that with the same products, it can turn out to be completely different in appearance and taste.
If we use several small tins, the casserole will cook faster - in about 25-30 minutes.
Before serving, it is better to cool to room temperature - so the taste will become more saturated.
It is good to add a whole orange to this composition, especially if you decide to cook a casserole with pumpkin puree. You may have to add another 1 tbsp of semolina, but the aroma will become extraordinary! To do this, cut the orange into slices 1 cm thick, peel off the crust and films, then cut it again into cubes.
For those who do not like to add cereals to the dish, we offer the following recipe. He will definitely please the sweet tooth and aesthetes, as the casserole is very beautiful and unusual.
This is not a quick process, but worth it!
In exactly the same way as for the Zebra cake, starting from the center, we pour 2 tbsp in turn, first chocolate cottage cheese, then white. Alternate until the mass runs out.
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Instead of cocoa, you can add a bar of chocolate to the cream - this will make the dessert even more chocolate. Just remember that then you do not need to add sugar to cream anymore!
But besides casserole in a double boiler, wonderful cheesecakes are obtained!
They need the same products:
If desired, they can be filled with pre-soaked raisins or chopped dried apricots, or you can carefully mix fresh berries - this will make cheesecakes more juicy.
If it works out, we form them from the curd dough with our hands, if it is too liquid, put them on the bottom of the double boiler with a tablespoon at a distance from each other.
Cook for half an hour, serve hot, unlike casseroles, they will remain intact. Cheesecakes can be poured with melted honey or condensed milk and garnished with a nut on top.
Well, for those who prefer a patty to all cakes, we suggest preparing salted cheesecakes in a double boiler!
As you can see, in a double boiler both cottage cheese casserole and cheesecakes are obtained quickly and easily! And, most importantly, you can use any desired ingredients for this.
Everyone has known the taste of casseroles since childhood. It is introduced into the diet of a child, starting from a year. It is very useful, it contains fruits, cereals, vegetables, cottage cheese, and it is a source of proteins, trace elements, pectins, vitamins and other useful substances. It can be sweet, with cottage cheese, fruit or semolina, and not sweet, with vegetables, fish, meat. The smallest it is steamed so its consistency is softer and more tender. Usually, children eat it with pleasure, because it is very tasty. For greater juiciness, casserole is watered with sour cream or jelly. Sweet casserole can be made from oatmeal, semolina, rice, cottage cheese, bread. By the way, if you still have buckwheat, semolina, or oatmeal porridge from breakfast, it’s quite possible to make a new dish of casserole from it.
Typically, a casserole consists of egg whipped with a mixer and other ingredients cottage cheese, cereals, vegetables. Because the dish is prepared for children, the preparation of products should be treated with special care. All products must be fresh, fruits, berries, vegetables thoroughly washed. Eggs must also be washed with water before breaking. Croup should be sorted out and boiled. Then you just have to mix the ingredients and bake.
Baby casseroles - best recipes
Cherry is introduced into the diet of babies from 11 months. It is rich in pectins, vitamins and minerals needed for growth. Because she has a pronounced sweet and sour taste, not all children will like fresh berries. Therefore, cherry compotes, jelly, casseroles are prepared for them. This casserole older children and very little ones will eat with pleasure. If the child is allergic, hen eggs are replaced with quail eggs, doubling the number. By the way, such a casserole can be made with other berries and fruits.
Ingredients. 300g cottage cheese, ½ cup sugar and cherry, 3 eggs, butter (grease the form), 2 tbsp. decoys.
Prepare a cherry. Rinse fresh and remove seeds. If the cherry is frozen, thaw it out, pour about 10 minutes boiling water.
Mix eggs and sugar and beat with a mixer or whisk. Add curd and semolina to the mass and beat again. The dough is ready.
At the bottom of the pan (do not forget to grease with butter), place cherries, then pour the dough and bake. If a child older than two years can be baked in the oven (at 180 ° C - 25 minutes). For kids it is better to cook a casserole for a couple, for example in a double boiler (25 minutes).
If your child has a year, then he has already met this vegetable in the form of mashed potatoes. Why not diversify its menu and make a casserole. Especially vegetable marrow is very easy to digest vegetable and very healthy. Zucchini can be taken both fresh and frozen.
Ingredients. 1 small zucchini, 100 g of cottage cheese, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon semolina and butter, a little greens (optional).
Initially, the zucchini should be slightly boiled, two minutes. If a frozen vegetable is used, it is immediately thrown into boiling water, as he is already cut into pieces. And peel off fresh and cut into longitudinal slices, rings. Put the boiled slices of zucchini on a colander and gently press with a fork, squeeze a little. This is done in order to get rid of excess fluid. Then they are crushed with a blender.
In the zucchini puree add eggs, softened butter and cottage cheese. Mix. You can use a spoon or a mixer. Add salt and chopped herbs.
Grease the mold and pour out the dough. If the molds are silicone, there is no need to lubricate them. The casserole will not pester. Bake in the oven (180C) or for a couple for about 40 minutes. It turns out tastier in the oven, but it is better for small children under 2 years old to steam.
Because the casserole is prepared for children, it can be decorated by laying out eyes, nose, mustache. Or make the sun. To do this, use green onion feathers, radish, tomato, halves of olives or dark berries.
Starting from the year it is already possible to introduce milk soups with pasta into the child’s diet. From a year and a half, cook casseroles or use as a side dish. For casseroles, you can take long pasta such as spaghetti or regular short ones. Cottage cheese is suitable for anyone, most importantly, to be fresh. Instead of regular granulated sugar for children, it is better to use fructose or brown sugar (sold in the store).
Ingredients. 100 g of cottage cheese, 1 egg, 50 g of pasta, 2 tbsp. sour cream, butter 20g, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 apple.
Boil the pasta in the usual way, put it in a colander and cool. If the vermicelli are too long, it is better to break them into several parts before throwing them into the water.
Mix cottage cheese with egg, sugar and sour cream. Combine with pasta and stir.
Grate the apple. Now you can collect the casserole. Lubricate the cookie cutter, put half the dough, grated apple on it, and cover with the second half of the curd dough. In each mold add a piece of butter. Bake the product for 30 minutes for a couple or in the oven (180C). Pour the casserole with sour cream or decorate.
This casserole is recommended for children over two years of age. This delicate texture dish is mashed potatoes with fish and eggs. The casserole does not contain semolina or cottage cheese. The recipe includes milk, which, like fish, is very useful for children. The casserole is large, so the number of components can be halved or served to the whole family for dinner or breakfast. It is with great pleasure that adults will eat it.
Ingredients. 500 g of potatoes, 800 g of fish, 2 eggs, 150 ml of milk, 50 g of butter, breadcrumbs for powder form, sour cream (optional) to water the casserole.
Boil the fish. If it is not a filet, then remove the skin and peel off the bones.
Separate eggs - separate yolks from proteins. Boil potatoes mashed. Add salt, milk, half the butter. Stir with the fish and push the crush once again. Introduce the yolks, mix. Add whipped whites to the foam.
Lubricate the form with the remaining oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and lay out the potato-fish mass. If you wish, the surface can be laid out with tomato slices and bake (180-200) 30 minutes. Cut into pieces and serve with slices of tomato or watering sour cream.
Children eat not only vegetable or cottage cheese casseroles. They can easily cope with meat. The meat is ground beef. Delicate and juicy dish remotely resembling cabbage rolls. The creamy taste and attractive appearance of the finished product will give sour cream, which you need to pour a piece of casserole, and sprinkle with chopped dill on top. The ingredients are designed for 4-5 servings. If desired, reduce the amount of food.
Ingredients. minced meat 0.5 kg (beef), 50 g butter, a slice of white cabbage (0.5 kg), milk ½ stack. sour cream, breadcrumbs, salt, 1 onion, 2 eggs and dill greens.
Chop the onion finely. Fry lightly in a frying pan, then add minced meat and fry, stew together for about seven minutes.
Chop cabbage with ordinary medium-sized straws. Pour a glass of water, put on a stove. Simmer 15 minutes from the moment of boiling. At the end, add butter and minced meat with onions. Mix well.
Beat 1 egg in foam, add to minced meat and cabbage, add crackers to the same place. Salt and put the mass in a mold. Top level.
There was the last touch: mix the remaining egg with milk and pour the casserole. Place the form in the oven, bake for half an hour (180C).
This casserole for children from three years. Unless specially boiled foods are cooked very quickly. It is better to do it when the house has ready-made buckwheat porridge and boiled or baked chicken, chicken legs or chicken. Then it will remain slightly spasserovat carrots with onions, mix the ingredients and bake. By the way, you can just boil the carrots and grate finely.
Ingredients. boiled or baked chicken 100g, buckwheat porridge 200g, half a carrot and onion, a couple of tablespoons of sour cream, salt, an egg.
Finely grate the carrots, chop the onion into small cubes and sauté. Cut the chicken into thin strips, mix with buckwheat porridge and vegetable frying, salt. Beat eggs with sour cream and add to buckwheat. Put the mass in the molds and bake for 15 minutes (180C). The top of the finished product can be decorated with canned corn kernels. The ingredients are indicated in two servings.
To cook a casserole for a couple, it is not necessary to use a double boiler. It may well be replaced by a water bath. To do this, put the casserole in a saucepan filled with water for a quarter. Water will boil, and the mass in the mold will be baked. It is only necessary to ensure that water does not pour into the mold through the sides, i.e. drilling should not be too strong.
Cottage cheese is a unique product in its usefulness for people of all ages. Its micro, macrocells and vitamins contribute to the optimal functioning of all human organs. This product has practically no contraindications; it is recommended both in regular and in diet. Children do not always want to eat cottage cheese in its natural form, which is why it is traditionally cooked at home. In a double boiler, it turns out to be especially delicate in taste and texture.
The use of modern household appliances in the kitchen significantly expands the range of dishes, saves cooking time, preserves the useful properties of products. in a double boiler is subjected to more gentle heat treatment than similar cooking in the oven. Spread the prepared dough in a bowl for cooking rice, cook on the first level for 40-45 minutes.
The selection of ingredients for the dish is advisory in nature, it can be changed depending on the availability of products and taste preferences. The main proportions that cottage cheese casserole keeps in a double boiler are the ratio of eggs to semolina, which is a binding filler. The cooking technology is simple: the cottage cheese is ground with sugar until smooth, then eggs, semolina and other fillers and flavorings are introduced into it. When adding eggs, it is better to separate the yolks from the proteins and introduce them into the cottage cheese separately, carefully rubbing the mixture. Beat whites in a dense foam, add to the dough last, gently mixing the products from the bottom up. With this introduction of eggs, the cottage cheese casserole in a double boiler is especially lush, airy.
Here are sample food packages for making a delicious dessert.
The main proportions: for every 500 g of cottage cheese, 2 eggs should be taken, about 50 g of sugar (can be reduced to taste), half a glass of semolina. Aromatic substances are added to the basic set - vanilla, lemon peel or other citrus, cinnamon, cloves - one of the proposed sets or a combination of aromas. At this point, the list can be completed, but the casserole with fruit fillers is more delicious.
Half a glass of raisins, candied fruits or other dried fruits, a glass of fresh fruits such as raspberries, currants, strawberries, sliced \u200b\u200bapples, peaches, and apricots are added to the indicated amount of cottage cheese. The taste with the addition of nuts is less harmonious, since they are heavy, sit on the bottom of the form.
For children suffering from diathesis, is prepared Instead of them, fresh, non-acidic kefir is added to the dish at the rate of 1 tablespoon instead of each egg. To achieve a pleasant consistency and splendor of the casserole, it is advisable to grind the cottage cheese using a submersible blender. All other requirements for the preparation of dessert are similar to the egg variant.
Semolina is also an optional component, cottage cheese casserole with flour is an equivalent alternative to the traditional recipe. The dish should not be cooked in a double boiler, but in the oven, greasing the top of the dough with sour cream to get a crispy crust. Half a cup of semolina is replaced by a third glass of flour.
A casserole may not always be a dessert. No less interesting are the salty options for a healthy dish. Cottage cheese casseroles are prepared in France and Italy. To prepare, you need to grind the cottage cheese with eggs, add cumin or ground paprika, black ground pepper or nutmeg, flour as seasoning. The dish gets an original taste thanks to a variety of additives. It can be green or black olives, dill and basil. Cold cottage cheese served.
A cottage cheese casserole in a double boiler is the perfect option for a wholesome breakfast. Steam it for several reasons.
Cottage cheese is one of the few products that has no contraindications. In moderate doses, everyone can use it. The exception is people suffering from excess calcium in the body, which is extremely rare.
Such a dish is suitable even for a child from 1.5 years. Exclude only cinnamon and vanilla, and the baby will be happy to enjoy a healthy dessert.
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Cottage cheese casserole with banana is better to eat hot. The cooled can be heated.
In this recipe, baked goods are prepared without semolina. Instead, starch is used. It is best to take corn or rice, as they contain useful minerals and trace elements. Compared with starch, semolina does not bring any benefits to the body. Moreover, with the addition of starch, baking is light and “fluffy”, it does not burden the cooked mass. Great for pies, muffins, muffins, pancakes. Cottage cheese casserole in a double boiler is also no exception.
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The cake will rise well and will have a delicate and soft consistency. The dish can also be prepared in a water bath. The result will be the same. A golden crust is obtained only when baking in the oven.
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The dish will turn out with a fragrant golden crust. Also, diet curd casserole can be cooked in a double boiler. Then, according to the recipe, you will need only 1 spoon of sour cream. Pour the curd mixture into the steaming bowl, cover and set the timer for 45 minutes. Determine readiness with a knife or fork.
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In the same way, a dish is prepared in a slow cooker. Set the “Baking” mode for 40 minutes. After cooling, remove the casserole using a steaming container.
According to many people, a cottage cheese casserole for a couple is fresh and tasteless. But so think those who prepared it incorrectly. In fact, a casserole can be made sweet, airy in consistency, add nuts, fruits or dried fruits to it. This healthy dish will appeal to everyone, especially pregnant, nursing mothers and young children.
- curd diet dish, delicious breakfast, tender curd dessert. A dietary cottage cheese casserole in a double boiler is prepared from low-fat cottage cheese, eggs and granulated sugar, without semolina, flour, soda, and baking powder. Sugar can be replaced with honey. Cottage cheese is chosen traditionally without vegetable refractory oils that spoil the dish and harm the body. Cottage cheese casserole in a double boiler is cooked without oil, overcooking, in an easily digestible form, while maintaining the useful properties of cottage cheese. Low-fat cottage cheese is a useful dietary fermented milk product. Rich in Calcium Salts: An easily digestible source of calcium for the elderly, pregnant women and nursing mothers. It contains vitamins A, E, P, B2, B6, B12, folic acid, salts of iron, sodium, magnesium, copper, zinc, fluorine and phosphorus. It is rich in an essential amino acid - methionine, which has a lipotropic effect. It lowers cholesterol in the body and prevents liver obesity resulting from exposure to toxins and a number of medications. Cottage cheese is important for growth, restoration, all body tissues, strengthening bone and cartilage. Improves the regenerative ability of the nervous system and normalizes its work. Promotes the formation of hemoglobin in the blood. Recommended for the prevention of metabolic diseases. Recommended in the treatment of liver diseases, atherosclerosis and hypertension. Cottage cheese should not be abused for diseases of the kidneys and increased acidity of the stomach.
Cottage cheese casserole in a double boiler is prepared according to various recipes. The basic recipe is published below. By adding various ingredients, we get the taste and color variations of the dish. Popular additives: raisins, dried apricots, prunes, walnuts, berries. In the photo - cottage cheese casserole in a double boiler with raisins and walnuts.