Cottage cheese balls - sweet and sharp recipes

Cottage cheese is a delicious sour-milk product, supplying our body with many useful substances. This is an excellent source of calcium, which is important for the formation and preservation of the human bone system. Perhaps, therefore, it is widely used in the preparation of numerous dishes. The peculiarity of cottage cheese is that it can be made from it as sweet, fruity, and spicy, sharp works of culinary art. The variety of recipes is simply astounding. One of the dishes that both adults and children love is curd balls. Photos of these items return us to childhood - even my grandmother did such a treat.

Vegetarian curd balls

To prepare the dish, take 300 grams of cottage cheese, add sour cream (3 tablespoons), about 200 grams of sugar. All we knead to a homogeneous state. In a teaspoon of soda add a little lemon juice or apple cider vinegar, after the reaction is added to the cottage cheese, put a little salt. Once again, we mix everything. Now you need to add flour. It needs so much to get a fairly dense, but not hard dough. We knead until it begins to lag behind the hands, the shape of the balls (2-3 cm in diameter). In thick-walled ware (cauldron) we heat oil. It is important not to overheat it. Lower the cottage cheese balls into several pieces. Temperature and fire should be average. For 5-6 minutes, the balls should be baked inside and not burned. They should have a pleasant golden color. Serve on the table in a hot form, sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Spicy curd balls

An excellent snack is prepared from fat cottage cheese (300 g). In it add 50 grams of sour cream, 10 grams of curry seasoning and dried ground tomatoes (in extreme cases you can substitute a tablespoon of tomato paste, but then the mass will be liquid), 20 grams of chopped parsley, as well as ground black pepper and salt. From the received weight to form cottage cheese balls, to roll in seasonings. They can be made in many colors: some can be rolled in chopped green dill or parsley, some in curry, and others in dried tomatoes. Put on the dish. Beautiful, unusual and piquant.

Cottage cheese balls with garlic and nuts

To prepare snacks, take fat cottage cheese (350-400 grams) and Feta cheese (about 100 grams), wipe them through a sieve (you can use a blender). In the resulting mass, add:

• Soft butter (100 grams);
• 2-3 cloves of garlic, passed through the press;
• Crushed walnuts (50 grams);
• 2 tbsp. Spoons of mayonnaise;
• 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice;
• Curcuma, salt, pepper, chopped herbs - to taste and desire.

All the ingredients are mixed, shaped balls, roll them in ground nuts, put on a dish and put in the cold for 20-30 minutes.

Curd balls "Raffaello"

This option is sure to please children (those who love coconut). Take soft curd (500 grams), add sugar (100 grams) and thoroughly rub until a homogeneous paste-like mass is obtained. Pour 120-150 grams of coconut chips, mix everything thoroughly. The mass is divided into small pieces, which put a nut (you can take hazelnuts, peanuts, walnuts, etc.). Form balls, roll in crushed nuts and / or coconut chips and refrigerate for about 30 minutes. A wonderful dessert!