Curd cheese cakes with cherries

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the necessary ingredients for the cheesecakes. Cottage cheese is better to take slightly moist, not lumpy. Fat content does not matter much. Cottage cheese in briquettes is ideal - it is quite soft, moderately moist, without grains. If your cottage cheese is dry and lumps - whisk it with an immersion blender or rub it through a sieve. Use flour of the highest grade.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cherries can be taken both fresh summer and frozen, in this case delicious cheesecakes with stuffing are available all year round. If the cherry is fresh, wash it, dry it and remove the tails and bones. Put the cherries on a paper napkin to absorb the excess juice. If the cherry is frozen, first defrost it and also put the berries on a napkin. The net weight of pitted cherries should be about 50 g, so take berries with a margin.

3. Step 3:

   

   In a bowl, combine cottage cheese, egg, sugar, vanilla and salt. Mix everything thoroughly. The mass will turn out to be quite liquid.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour in the flour, leaving 2 tbsp. l. for breading cheesecakes. Knead the plastic sticky dough. Flour may need more or less, depending on the humidity of the cottage cheese and the total humidity of the resulting mass.

5. Step 5:

   

   With wet hands, divide the dough into 8-9 balls of the same size.

7. Step 6:

   

   Roll out each piece of dough into a round tortilla. Put 3-4 cherry berries on the dough. If the dough sticks strongly to your hands, either moisten your hands with water, or on the contrary, dust them with flour.

8. Step 7:

   

   Connect the edges of the dough and form small round cheesecakes.

9. Step 8:

   

   Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Lay out the cheesecakes and fry for 3-4 minutes on each side until golden brown.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the finished cheesecakes on a plate and serve hot. You can serve cheesecakes with sour cream, honey, jam or topping. Bon appetit!