Crude without cheese - general cooking principles
Cheesecakes - a tasty dish, satisfying and healthy! If you like cottage cheese, then cheesecakes can not you not like it. Mandatory ingredients are cottage cheese, egg and flour. But what if there was no flour at home or you are on a protein diet, on which carbohydrates like flour are prohibited? In this case, you can cook great cheesecakes without flour! Do not be confused by the absence of such an important component - believe that the cheesecakes will turn out anyway!
Flour Cheesecakes - Preparing Food and Cookware
If you decide to cook cheesecakes without flour, it is important to responsibly approach the purchase of cottage cheese. First of all, immediately note that the cottage cheese with fat content above 10% will not work - it is very juicy, and since there will be no flour, the whey from the curd will have no place to go. Get the best low-fat cheese or cottage cheese with a small percentage of fat. In addition, cottage cheese for cheesecakes without flour should be of a uniform consistency, not granular, without lumps. If the cheese from which you are going to cook is not uniform, mash it with a fork or chop it with a blender. But about the freshness is not so important. Of course, cheese curds from fresh cottage cheese will be the most delicious, but stale cheese can be safely used. If the cheese is very sour, you can cook cheesecakes in the oven.
How to do without flour? There are several options. The first, most common is to use corn starch instead of flour. Please note that you need exactly corn, and not so common potato! This starch is allowed on the Dukan diet and on protein-based dietary methods for weight loss.
The second option is the use of oat bran. This product, if crushed in a coffee grinder, resembles flour, but unlike the latter, is useful, contains fiber and insoluble fiber. Include a spoonful of oat bran in your daily diet and be healthy. But since they are not very tasty by themselves, cheesecakes with this component are an excellent way out of the situation.
In addition, you can put in the cheese semolina. Such a trick will make cheesecakes more satisfying and will definitely not allow them to fall apart.
Recipes cheesecakes without flour:
Recipe 1: Cheesecakes without flour with semolina
Try experimentally cooking cheesecakes without flour, and you will realize that this is possible! To make the cheesecakes a special taste, add a little condensed milk to the dough.
Ingredients Required:
- Egg 1 piece (medium size)
- Cottage cheese 220-250 grams (1 pack)
- Condensed milk 1 tablespoon
- 1.5 tablespoon semolina
- Sugar powder 2 tablespoons
- Salt
- Vanilla
- Lemon Soda Soda
- Vegetable oil (for frying)
Cooking method:
- Mix cheese with condensed milk, semolina, powdered sugar, egg yolk, vanilla and salt. Let the mixture stand for 15-18 minutes. This time is necessary in order for the semolina in the dough to swell and absorb moisture from the cheese.
- Beat the egg white with a blender or mixer, add a little salt and add the resulting foam to the curd dough. Add there also soda, slaked with lemon juice or vinegar.
- Heat the frying pan, on which you will fry cheesecakes, and grease it well with oil.
- Using a spoon or wet hands, take the dough and spread it in small portions, the size of a chestnut, into the pan. Fry for 5-6 minutes on each side.
Recipe 2: oatmeal-free cheese cakes
Fashionable today Dyukan diet involves the inclusion in the diet of large amounts of protein and the almost complete rejection of the flour. However, cheesecakes, cooked according to this recipe, exactly belong to the permitted on the diet dishes. We will cook them without sugar, but making a non-calorie sweet treat is possible by putting a sweetener tablet into the dough.
Ingredients Required:
- Cottage cheese 1 pack (220-250 grams) fat free
- Oat bran 1.5 tablespoons
- 3 egg whites
- Salt
- Fresh dill
- Vegetable oil for frying
Cooking method:
- With the help of a coffee grinder, the bran must be ground into flour. If you do not have a coffee grinder, you can put them as a whole, but in this case put one egg yolk in the dough.
- Make the dough for bran syrniki without flour. To do this, mix all the ingredients - low fat cottage cheese, bran, whipped egg whites. If it seems to you that the dough turns out to be watery, add one egg yolk. However, keep in mind that for this recipe the dough has a special watery consistency.
- Wash the dill and chop finely. Add to the dough with a pinch of salt.
- Heat pan and grease it with oil. Using a spoon, spread the dough and fry the cheesecakes for 4 minutes on each side over low heat.
Recipe 3: Cheesecakes without flour with starch
Another version of delicious cheesecakes without flour is syrnichki with starch. An uncomplicated recipe that does not take you much time will appeal to lovers of unusual dishes.
Ingredients Required:
- Cottage cheese 220-250 grams (1 pack)
- Corn starch 1.5 tablespoons
- Powdered milk 1 tablespoon
- Chicken egg 1 piece
- Sugar 3 tablespoons
- Salt
- Vegetable oil
Cooking method:
- Combine cheese, starch, milk powder, sugar and egg yolk. Set aside the dough for 10 minutes, and at this time, whip the protein with salt.
- Enter the white foam into the dough, mix gently.
- Heat the pan and grease.
- With a damp spoon, take the dough and place it in a frying pan. Fry cheesecakes for 6-7 minutes on each side over low heat.
Recipe 4: Cheesecakes without flour and raisins
Very tasty cheesecakes without flour, but with raisins. Remember that the more such a sweet additive, the tastier the finished product!
Ingredients Required:
- Cottage cheese 220-250 grams
- Raisin 100 grams
- Egg 1 piece
- Semolina 2 tablespoons
- Sugar
- Salt
- Baking powder for dough 6 grams
- Vegetable oil
Cooking method:
- Prepare the raisins. To do this, you need to pour boiling water for 15-20 minutes before the dough.
- Combine cottage cheese (use fat-free for this recipe), semolina, salt, egg yolk, baking powder for dough, sugar. Dough should stand for 10-15 minutes.
- Egg white should be whipped with a small amount of salt to a foam condition. Enter the foam in the dough, add the raisins.
- Heat the pan and spread a little cheesecake on the surface with a wet spoon. Fry for 5-7 minutes on each side.
Flour Cheesecakes - secrets and tips from the best chefs
- Cheesecakes get better when cooked under a domed lid. They are well steamed and juicy. Especially it concerns those cheesecakes, in the recipe of which semolina is used.
- Add a piece of butter to the cheesecake dough - so they will not burn during frying.
- Vanilla, cinnamon, rum essence - delicious aromas will make the products much more appetizing.
- Add tasty “bonuses like dried berries, sliced dried fruits, fresh apples and bananas to cheesecakes without flour.
- A spoon of cocoa in the recipe will turn ordinary cheesecakes into chocolate ones. Serve this dish with condensed milk or cream.
- It is very important that the cottage cheese for cheesecakes without flour is not very moist, that is, not fat. If the cheese is too juicy, compensate for this with a large amount of dry ingredient - semolina, starch or oat bran.
