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Marble cottage cheese Easter with vanilla, condensed milk and cocoa

Marble Cottage Cheese Paskha with Vanilla, Condensed Milk, and Cocoa

The most delicious dessert on the Easter table — marble paskha. This quick and easy cottage cheese paskha comes together very simply. It looks unusual on the Easter table, and the beautifully paired vanilla and cocoa make its flavor very interesting.

Natalia Vasilenko

Recipe author

Marble cottage cheese Easter with vanilla, condensed milk and cocoa

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Cottage cheese

550

Butter

100

Condensed milk

100

Vanilla sugar

Cocoa powder

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 31 % 13 g

Fats 45 % 19 g

Carbohydrates 24 % 10 g

261 kcal

GI: 10 / 20 / 70

Cooking method

Step 1:

Get all the ingredients ready. Use full-fat cottage cheese, 9-15% fat.
Step 2:

A few hours before you start, take the butter out of the refrigerator and let it come to room temperature. Beat the butter with the condensed milk until smooth. Gradually add the cottage cheese and blend everything thoroughly with an immersion blender.
Step 3:

Divide the resulting cheese mixture into 2 parts. Add the vanilla sugar to one part and the cocoa powder to the other. Add the cocoa to taste — I like the cocoa part to have a noticeable bitterness, so I add 2 tablespoons, but you can add less. Mix both parts thoroughly.
Step 4:

Take a paskha mold (mine is 12 cm tall), line it with lightly dampened cheesecloth folded into 2 layers, and spoon in the white and brown cheese mixtures in a random pattern. If you prefer, you can lay them in even layers. Cover the top of the paskha with cheesecloth, set a small weight on top, and put it in the refrigerator. Depending on the moisture of the cottage cheese, the paskha is ready in 10-20 hours — most often fully ready after a day.
Step 5:

It's best to set the mold in a deep dish and pour off the whey as it separates. After a day, take the paskha out of the refrigerator, carefully remove the mold and cheesecloth, and decorate as desired.
Step 6:

The quick and easy cottage cheese paskha is ready! For a more detailed recipe, watch the video. Enjoy!

Cheese mixture, or paskha, is another fixture of the festive table. There are theories that cheese mixtures, like cottage cheese itself, are among the oldest sacred foods, tied to fertility and the worship of fertility deities. Many ancient rituals (the spring rite of greeting the earth, the first plowing of the field) were performed using cottage cheese and other dairy products, which carried symbolic meaning. Cottage cheese is more than food; it's the best part of milk, its very essence — the most nourishing and beneficial thing for a person. And puréed cottage cheese, sweetened with sugar and the finest butter, is nature's highest gift. For the common person of the past, such luxurious food was available only once a year, so it was made over a long time and from the very best ingredients. With the adoption of Christianity, the traditions gradually changed, and the meaning of the symbol was lost in the pagan past. The main thing remained: at Easter, the most important holiday in Christianity, treats were made with special care and love. Cottage cheese paskhas were blessed in churches and were considered "blessed" food.