Pancakes are a traditional treat for Shrovetide, but there are a huge number of stuffing options for them. To try everything is not enough for a whole year, not to mention a week of holidays. Filling for cottage cheese pancakes can be sweet with dried fruits, berries and fruits, as well as savory with greens and even cucumbers.

Classic curd filling for pancakes

The classic cottage cheese filling is always sweet and is prepared from a minimum of ingredients. Usually, in addition to the fermented milk product, it includes eggs (or egg yolks) and sugar, but if the cottage cheese is dry, then you can fix the consistency with a small amount of sour cream. The ideal consistency of the filling should not be liquid, so as not to leak from the pancakes, and should not be dry, so as not to crumble.

The ratio of cottage cheese and other components of the classic version of the filling:

  • 500 g of cottage cheese;
  • 2 yolks;
  • 50 g or a little more sugar;
  • 40 g sour cream (for dry cottage cheese);
  • 2 g of vanillin.
  • 2.5-3 g of salt.

Cooking Algorithm:

  1. We prepare the cottage cheese: it is enough to knead the fatty product with a fork, and you will have to twist the grainy look through a meat grinder with a fine sieve.
  2. Add the yolks, sugar, vanilla and a pinch of salt to the prepared cottage cheese. Mix well. If the filling turned out to be a little dry, add sour cream, carefully stir again and you can start stuffing pancakes.If suddenly the curd filling turned out to be liquid, then it can be thickened by adding a tablespoon of semolina.

Often, housewives do not add salt to sweet varieties of fillings, but in vain.Salt is a natural flavor enhancer, and its small pinch will make the filling taste more pronounced, which will allow you to use less sugar and reduce the calorie content of the finished dish.

Sweet with raisins and dried apricots

There are two options for preparing the filling of cottage cheese with raisins and dried apricots. The first involves the addition of raw chicken eggs, the second - sour cream. If the finished pancakes are then fried, then the use of raw eggs is permissible, but for a dish without further heat treatment, it is better to use a sour cream product.

The list of ingredients for both options:

  • 500 g fat cottage cheese;
  • 60 g of powdered sugar;
  • 80 g sour cream or 1 egg;
  • 100 g dried apricots;
  • 70 g pitted raisins.

Cooking method:

  1. Sort the dried grapes, chop the dried apricots in small cubes. After that, pour dried fruit over boiling water for 10-15 minutes. When they become a little softer, drain the water, and dry the raisins and slices of dried apricots on a paper towel.
  2. In a deep bowl send the cottage cheese, powdered sugar and sour cream (egg). Thoroughly stir this mass with a tablespoon. To obtain a more homogeneous mass, you can pierce with a blender.
  3. After that, add dried dried fruits and mix well with a spoon so that they are evenly distributed in the total mass. The filling is ready.

Raisins and dried apricots can be put not only together, but also separately, as well as replaced or supplemented with prunes, dried cherries, dried cranberries or candied fruits. Any of these options will delight your taste buds and stomach.

From cottage cheese, yogurt and raspberries

Any berries are combined with cottage cheese, but raspberries are especially good with it. Yogurt for the filling should not be taken as ordinary drinking, but Greek natural without fillers. If such a fermented milk product could not be bought, the same amount of sour cream (20%) can serve as a replacement.

Proportions of products per serving of filling:

  • 300 g of cottage cheese;
  • 150 g of yogurt;
  • 50 g or as powdered sugar;
  • 200 g raspberries.

Cooking order:

  1. We carefully wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve or knead a potato masher. Then we add yogurt and icing sugar, mix everything with the same blender and interrupt with a blender.
  2. If you use thawed berries for the filling, then drain the excess juice from them and carefully interfere with the curd mass. Fresh raspberries can be put separately in each pancake on the cottage cheese.

Such a sweet filling with raspberries is suitable not only for thin pancakes, but also for plump cakes. In this case, they are rolled up in a bag, the filling is planted inside through a pastry bag, and sprinkled with berries on top.

With fresh herbs, cottage cheese and garlic

Pancakes with curd filling can be not only a dessert, but also a delicious snack, especially when it comes to unsweetened curd filling with herbs. As the last, which perfectly complements the cottage cheese, you can take dill, parsley, cilantro, basil, tarragon and even mint.

The list and quantity of ingredients that will be needed during the preparation process:

  • 450 g of cottage cheese;
  • 90 g sour cream;
  • 40-55 g of greens;
  • 18-24 g of garlic;
  • salt and pepper.

We prepare the filling as follows:

  1. Wash and dry greens. Remove the husks from the garlic cloves and chop them into slices. Put these products in a blender and beat until a homogeneous paste is obtained.
  2. Mash the cottage cheese with a fork or squeeze through a sieve, then combine with sour cream and greens paste with garlic. At the very end, mince the salt and pepper.

In addition to cottage cheese, a similar filling can be made on the basis of other cheeses - feta cheese or feta. After frying, pancakes with savory filling are served, pouring them with Tartar sauce.

Cherry Recipe

Often, berries for filling pancakes are used fresh, but then the shelf life of the treats is short. In order to bake pancakes with cottage cheese and berry filling for future use, berries must be subjected to heat treatment.The latter will help not only to avoid damage to the finished product, but also enrich its taste with spices, for example, cherries can be cured with cinnamon and cloves.

In this case, for 10-12 pancakes you will need:

  • 300 g fat cottage cheese;
  • 300 g of cherries;
  • 100 g of sour cream;
  • 30 ml of brandy;
  • 2-3 buds of cloves;
  • 1.5 g of cinnamon.

Step-by-step recipe for cherry filling:

  1. Remove the seeds from the cherries and put them in a thick-walled stewpan, in which cognac, 30 g of sugar and spices are also added. Send everything to a fire, heat to a boil and boil for 5 minutes. Then discard the cherries in a colander to stack the syrup, and remove the clove buds.
  2. Beat cottage cheese with sour cream and remaining sugar in a tender and very lush mass using a blender. Transfer the fragrant cherry without syrup into the curd mass and gently stir with a spoon.

The cherry syrup that remains from the cherries after heat treatment does not need to be poured, it can be turned into a delicious pancake sauce. For it, cherry syrup needs to be diluted a little with water, add a small amount of starch and brew for 1-2 minutes.

Cooking Banana Filling

A delicious filling for pancakes from cottage cheese and bananas of mousse consistency can also be used as a cream for creating pancake cakes.

Since bananas are a fairly sweet fruit, sugar can be completely excluded from the list of ingredients, leaving:

  • 200 g of cottage cheese;
  • 200 g of banana pulp;
  • 2 g of vanillin or cinnamon.

Working process:

  1. Cottage cheese, to avoid the appearance of unbroken curd lumps in the total mass, pass through a sieve. Peel bananas and chop in circles.
  2. Put all prepared ingredients in a chopper (blender bowl), add spices for flavor and grind into a lush homogeneous mass. This will take five or more minutes of continuous whipping.

If suddenly the filling does not seem sweet enough, you can add a little sugar in it. It is powders, because sugar may not dissolve and it will be unpleasant to grind on the teeth. Serve pancakes with such a filling, pouring them with honey or chocolate sauce.

With cottage cheese and pickled cucumbers

Cucumber does not seem to be the most suitable product that can be wrapped in a thin dough cake, but the following recipe for the filling for pancakes from cottage cheese and pickled cucumbers will dispel any doubts that arise.

Ingredients:

  • 300 g of cottage cheese;
  • 150 g pickled cucumbers;
  • 6-12 g of garlic;
  • 20 g of dill;
  • salt and pepper to taste.

How to make a savory filling option:

  1. Turn cottage cheese into a smooth mass without grains and lumps (this can be done with a blender). Make a shavings of cucumbers on a coarse grater, chop finely the greens, and squeeze the garlic through a press.
  2. Put cucumbers, herbs and garlic into the cottage cheese, carefully mix all the products with a spoon.

Using the same technology, you can make minced meat with olives, cutting them into rings, or with gherkins. Add sour cream to the curd is not necessary, because cucumbers will allocate enough juice.

In addition to various filling options, there are various ways to beautifully serve pancakes. You can put the filling in the center of the pancake and tie it with a bag, fold it into a triangle, envelope or tube, snail. These methods will help to distinguish pancakes with different types of additives.

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