A huge number of dishes of all kinds are made from this dough, ranging from pies and buns to cookies, casseroles and even pizza. The simplest version is kneaded from a minimal set of ingredients: flour, egg, cottage cheese, salt and a little sugar. Variations also use yeast — for yeast baking — or fat — for puff pastry. And cottage cheese dough works for both desserts and savory dishes, by adjusting the amount of sugar and sweet components in it.
The Five most commonly used ingredients in Cottage Cheese Dough Recipes:
| Product | Calories per 100g | Protein g per 100g | Fats g per 100g | Carbohydrates g per 100g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cottage cheese | 156 | 16.4 | 10 | 0 |
| Flour | 325 | 12 | 1 | 67 |
| Sugar | 398 | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Butter | 734 | 0.5 | 82.5 | 0.8 |
| Baking soda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cottage cheese about to go off? Make curd dough!
The huge advantage of this kind of dough is that you can put cottage cheese that is far from the freshest to good use. If this product has been sitting in the refrigerator, go ahead and knead dough from it — you will not lose out. For a number of its types, sour cottage cheese is preferable. It makes decent lazy dumplings and cookies — things that are either boiled or baked. Besides, it is easy to remove excess acidity from cottage cheese by soaking it in milk and then straining it through cheesecloth.
Note that excess sugar in curd dough can cause the product to burn if it is fried or baked in the oven. If the cottage cheese is very moist, it is recommended to put it in cheesecloth and hang it over a container for about three hours. The drier it is, the better the result.
The Five Fastest Cottage Cheese Dough Recipes:
| Dish Name | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottage cheese pie dough with sour cream and cottage cheese | 40 min | 269 | +38 |
| Cottage cheese dough for hand pies | 50 min | 272 | +56 |
| Cottage cheese shortbread dough | 1 hour | 322 | +125 |
| Cottage cheese dough for Easter cakes | 1 hour | 332 | +34 |
| Yeast curd dough with cottage cheese | 2 hours | 271 | +174 |
Tips for cottage cheese dough :
- use dry, fresh cottage cheese for baking
- dough that needs to be boiled can take a more acidic product
- for fluffier baking, rest the finished dough in the refrigerator for at least five hours