Appetizer of cottage cheese: types, recipes

Even the children know about the benefits of cottage cheese. True, not all of them agree to eat this product, except in the form of glazed curds. Yes, and housewives, as a rule, do not pay much attention to cottage cheese, treating it more often as an ingredient for cooking casseroles, vareniki, cheese cakes and burger fillings. And completely in vain. Because of it you can cook a huge number of other dishes, in particular, independent snacks. And to taste, they can also be very diverse - as sharp, salty, and sweet.

Any snack, made from cottage cheese, is able to surprise even the most capricious gourmet, especially if earlier it was not particularly spoiled with dishes made from this product. And to surprise not only with its taste, but also with a very attractive and peculiar kind.

Types of snacks

This dairy product is perfectly combined with many ingredients that are used in the preparation of snacks in the form of various additives. It is equally good with fruits, and with fish, and with spicy seasonings, and with vegetables, and with smoked products. Perfectly combines cottage cheese with herbs (the recipe for preparing exactly such snacks, and not one, we'll give below).

Mixed with all kinds of fillers, it is often used in this form as fillings for tartlets, rolls and simply as paste for spreading on a sandwich. Or it is the base for cooking a separate dish. Cottage cheese dishes can be not only cold, but also hot. In addition, depending on the ingredients, they can be prepared both in the form of desserts, and in the form of snacks served to the table in front of the main hot dish.

An interesting feature of the product: the landlady, having at his disposal any one type of curd mass, say, the same cottage cheese with greens, the recipe for creating one or another snack can be modified at its discretion. And to receive in the end a completely new dish. For example, fill this mixture with zucchini or eggplant, tomato or pepper. And believe me, each dish will have an individual taste.

Well, now let's go directly to practice. And first let's talk about how to prepare a quick snack from cottage cheese.

Cottage cheese balls

To get an acute snack, it is usually combined with cheese and garlic. The recipe, as a rule, does not limit the amount of the second ingredient, garlic is added to taste (the more it is, the more sharply the food is). As for cottage cheese, it will need a half kilogram to make the balls. And you need to take the product fairly dense and dry. So, the specified amount of cottage cheese is ground in a blender, add the crushed garlic (preferably in the press), salt it, then pour in half a finely chopped dill. If there is a desire, you can flavor the mixture with a pinch of curry. All diligently vymeshivayut, and then mold the balls, collapsing each in the remaining chopped dill. Such an appetizer of cottage cheese - sharp, very beautiful - should be at least an hour in the refrigerator. After which you can serve on the table. By the way, if there is no time to sculpt the balls, you can simply smear a lot of black bread and serve the food in the form of sandwiches.

Cottage cheese + greens

As we already mentioned, this combination is quite popular. We offer to prepare a very beautiful cream of greens and cottage cheese. For half a kilo of dry curd we take 10 twigs of cilantro, parsley, basil and dill. Greenery finely chopped, curd we put in a bowl of a blender salt, pour two tablespoons of fatty cream and add the cut greens. Then stir everything until the mass becomes puree. The result is a very beautiful dish of amazing green color. If desired, they can fill, for example, tartlets. Cottage cheese purees can be made and sharp, if you add the same garlic.

Potato + cottage cheese

Very simple snack from cottage cheese, which is classified as hot. Take a kilogram of potatoes, and preferably, the roots were the same size. Clear and boil. While the potatoes are being cooked, it is necessary to have cottage cheese (it will be enough to have a 200 g bag) to grind with a spoonful of butter, a pinch of salt and the same amount of pepper. Add to the mass cut myelenko favorite greens. Finished potatoes cut into halves, and along. And then slide a slice of cottage cheese onto each piece. And immediately served on the table.

Appetizer with salmon

We take three hundred grams of salmon (you can replace it with any other red fish), cut into small pieces, mix it with a 200 gram sachet of dry cottage cheese. Add a couple of spoons of olive oil. Then pour the chopped small fennel. We knead it. Further - at will. You can stuff tartlets, or you can spread it with lavash paste and roll into a roll. Or just make sandwiches with white bread. Well, for an ordinary, not a festive table, instead of salmon, you can even take salted herring fillets. Believe me, it will not be less delicious.

Eggs ... from cottage cheese

Smoked ham (enough to be a piece in weight of 200 g) melenko cut with a knife. In a blender, mix half a kilogram of cottage cheese with three tablespoons of creamy butter, cut into a green onion and a couple of spoons of thick sour cream. Add the ham. Grate a piece of cheese on a grater. Then, from the curd mass, mold oval dumplings, each roll in grated cheese. To get the "eggs" kept in shape, they must be put at least an hour in the refrigerator. Such an appetizer of cottage cheese, however, like many others, can also be used as a pasta for sandwiches.

Cucumber boats

Take the cucumbers, cut along.

We cut off the bottom of each halve so that the products are stable. We take out the flesh. And fill the vacant place with curd mass, ground in a blender with cucumber pulp, several cloves of garlic, a bunch of greens and one Bulgarian pepper. This appetizer from cottage cheese is prepared not only with cucumbers. Similarly, you can make boats from eggplants or courgettes. Just before filling the filling, they (already cut, but with the pulp) should be baked in either an oven or microwave.

Curd balls in chocolate

And finally - a sweet option.

If you take our recipe as a basis, and then at your discretion to replace or add ingredients, you can always get a new cottage cheese delicacy. As for the basic option: for cottage cheese (the same 200 g) we add a spoonful of sour cream and sugar (or, say, honey or syrup) over the dining room. Thoroughly mix. We spread the table spoon of the mass on the palm, make a lozenge. Then we take any suitable dried fruit (for example, dates without pits, prunes or dried apricots) or walnuts (the same almonds). We put in the middle and form a ball. Which then needs to roll in the grated chocolate (black, dairy, mixed with coconut shavings). After that, a sweet snack of cottage cheese for an hour goes to the refrigerator.