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Cheesecakes made of cottage cheese with raisins

Quick Farmer's Cheese Fritters with Raisins (Syrniki)

Super-fast farmer's cheese fritters for breakfast. In the dairy aisle you'll often find sweetened farmer's cheese blends — usually marketed for kids, since they're already sweet and mixed with dried fruit. You can eat the blend as is for breakfast, or turn it into these quick fritters.

Maria

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Cheesecakes made of cottage cheese with raisins

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Farmer's cheese (sweetened curd blend)

350

Raisins

Flour

Vegetable oil

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 30 % 13 g

Fats 32 % 14 g

Carbohydrates 39 % 17 g

242 kcal

GI: 0 / 38 / 63

Cooking method

Cooking time: 25 min

Step 1:

Gather the ingredients. To make these fritters you'll need a sweetened farmer's cheese blend (with raisins, dried apricots, or plain vanilla), plus flour and vegetable oil for frying.
Step 2:

Rinse the raisins, cover them with boiling water, and let them soak for 10–15 minutes to swell and soften, then drain. I added raisins because my cheese blend was plain and I wanted some — if yours already has raisins, there's no need.
Step 3:

Put the cheese and raisins in a bowl. You can add sugar if the blend isn't very sweet — I skipped it so the fritters wouldn't be too sweet.
Step 4:

Sift the flour and add it to the cheese a little at a time, stirring until smooth after each addition. You may need slightly more or less flour depending on how moist the cheese is, so go by feel. The mixture should be just barely tacky to the touch — not stiff or overloaded with flour. Too much flour makes the fritters dense.
Step 5:

Shape the mixture into an even, thick log.
Step 6:

Roll it in flour on all sides.
Step 7:

Cut the log into equal pieces and shape each one into a smooth, evenly sized fritter.
Step 8:

Dredge each fritter in flour.
Step 9:

Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet and fry the fritters 3–5 minutes per side, until golden.
Step 10:

Serve the fritters with sour cream, honey, or sweetened condensed milk. Enjoy!

A sweetened farmer's cheese blend is a popular dairy product built on curd cheese, mixed with butter, sour cream or cream, and sugar or condensed milk. You'll find versions with raisins, dried apricots, cherries, vanilla, or chocolate chips. It starts as ordinary cultured curd cheese, which is then blended with add-ins, shaped, and packaged. A good one contains curd cheese, butter, cream, and sugar, with no artificial flavors or dyes — watch out for cut-rate versions that swap real butter for cheap palm oil.