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Cottage cheese Easter with candied fruits
On the bright holiday of Easter, the main dishes of the holiday must be on the table – kulich, cottage cheese Easter with candied fruits and dyed eggs (krashenka or pysanka).
A very simple recipe for Easter made from cottage cheese with candied fruits that is quick and easy to prepare, yet the dish turns out to be very tasty. Over the years, I have prepared various cottage cheese Easter and royal, and steamed. But this simple recipe remains the best according to my family. Even a teenager can easily make it. You can diversify the dish with different candied fruits, raisins, dried apricots, and nuts. This time, it turned out like this for us.
Caloric content: 127 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Preparation time: 12 hours.
Ingredients
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- fresh cottage cheese, homemade – 1 kg;
- sour cream – 100 g;
- butter – 100 g;
- sugar – 1 cup;
- chicken eggs – 4 pcs;
- vanillin – 1 pack;
- salt – a pinch to taste;
- cardamom seeds – 2 pcs;
- nutmeg – a pinch;
- raisins – 1/3 cup;
- dried apricots – 6 pcs;
- orange candied fruits – 100 g;
- grated zest of one orange.
Preparation
- First, it is necessary to rub the cottage cheese through a fine sieve, which can be done in advance.
- Prepare all the necessary products according to the recipe.
- In a large bowl, crack the eggs, add salt and sugar. Whisk everything together with a whisk.
- Next, add sour cream and butter. The butter can be melted in the microwave or in a water bath. But this can be skipped if the butter is soft.
- Grind the cardamom and a little nutmeg in a mortar.
- Add the nutmeg and cardamom to the mixture. Also add vanillin and orange zest. Mix with a whisk.
- Add the egg mixture to the rubbed cottage cheese. Mix well.
- A homogeneous mass of medium density is obtained, not too runny. It is important to beat the eggs with a whisk for this consistency, and not to beat them with a mixer or blender into a foam.
- Prepare the candied fruits and raisins. Chop the orange candied fruits and dried apricots randomly, approximately the size of raisins. At this time, soak the raisins in warm water for about ten minutes.
- Add the candied fruits and dried apricots to the cottage cheese mixture. Pat the raisins dry with a napkin and also add them to the mixture.
- Mix very well to evenly distribute the candied fruits in the cottage cheese mixture.
- Prepare a detachable mold and line it with clean cheesecloth or cotton fabric, which should be moistened beforehand. Place the mold in a deep bowl. Spoon in the prepared mixture.
- Pack the cottage cheese tightly into the mold, filling all the corners so that there are no voids in the cottage cheese Easter. The mold should be filled to the top, even with a slight mound.
- Cover the mold with the edges of the fabric. It will already be visible that excess liquid has started to drain into the bowl. Place a weight on top of the mold, which can be a 0.5-liter jar of water. Place the structure in the refrigerator for at least 12 hours.
- After some time, carefully extract the cottage cheese dish from the mold. To do this, remove the weight and unfold the fabric. Cover the prepared dish, on which the beautiful cottage cheese Easter with candied fruits will eventually be placed, with the mold. Turn it onto a plate in one motion.
- Carefully open the mold and remove the fabric. Here is the cottage cheese Easter with candied fruits that turned out. It has a firm structure, and the imprint is well visible.
- Decorate the cottage cheese Easter to your taste. You can use sprinkles, melted or grated chocolate, candied fruits for this.
The cottage cheese Easter with candied fruits is ready, and it is festively decorated. Such an Easter will add even more solemnity to the Easter feast.
Happy upcoming Easter!
