Fried cheese balls in oil

Take cottage cheese that is not too wet, rather dry. Pour it into a bowl, crush the curds. If there is time and desire, you can rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, but this is laborious work that will take some time. If you need to quickly prepare the doughnuts, just crush the cottage cheese with an ordinary spoon. Not all the curds can be crushed with a spoon, but this won't spoil the taste of the doughnuts.

So, we have crushed the cottage cheese. Now we move on. The next ingredient of our cheese delicacy is chicken eggs. Wash two chicken eggs, dry them with a napkin, and then break them into a separate bowl.

Pour sugar into the bowl with raw chicken eggs.

Beat this mixture with a mixer at low speed. No mixer or simply don’t want to wash it later – no problem, beat the mixture with a whisk.

Combine our tender cottage cheese with the beaten egg mixture.

Now measure out a tablespoon of vinegar. Quench half a teaspoon of baking soda in the vinegar.

Quickly add the quenched soda to the bowl with the other ingredients, mix.

Add the sifted flour.

Knead a soft dough using a spatula or spoon. Leave the cheese dough to rest for a few minutes.

While the dough is resting, decide on the dish in which we will fry the cheese doughnut balls. Since our balls should float freely in oil while frying, it’s better to take a small deep pot. A small cauldron is convenient for this purpose. It's easy to mix our cheese balls in it without risking splattering everything around with fat. Pour refined sunflower oil into it. Heat the oil well in the cauldron, as for frying pies.

While the oil is heating, shape balls from the cheese dough. The dough is sticky, so when forming the doughnut balls, dip your hands in flour. Roll balls the size of a walnut.

Carefully drop the doughnut preparations into the heated fat. As mentioned before, the doughnuts should float freely in the fat. Therefore, there should be free space between them. Regularly turn the cheese balls with a spatula to fry them evenly.

In hot fat, the cheese balls puff up and increase in size.

When the fried cheese balls in oil are nicely browned, remove them from the cauldron and place them on paper towels.

From the first batch, break one doughnut. Check if it is cooked through in the middle to determine how well we need to fry them. Although cheese balls of such a small size usually cook well.

Sprinkle the cooled balls with powdered sugar.

Cook cheese balls according to our step-by-step recipe with pleasure. Enjoy your meal.