Banana Sochniki (Cottage Cheese Pastries)

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  1. In deep bowl connect softened butter and sugar (2 tbsp). By means of mixer whip everything to homogeneous light mass.
  
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  2. Then add sour cream and 1 chicken egg to the dough.
  
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  3. Mix the ingredients again with the mixer until homogeneity.
  
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  4. Add a baking powder and a pinch of salt to the dough, mix.
  
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  5. Add sifted high grade wheat flour into the dough.
  
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  6. Knead soft elastic dough. Cover the bowl with the dough with food wrap and send it to the fridge for 30 minutes.
  
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  7. Meanwhile, let’s make a filling. Peel ripe banana and mash with the fork into homogeneous puree.
  
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  8. Add cottage cheese, wheat flour (1 tbsp), sugar (1 tbsp) and vanillin to the banana puree.
  
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  9. Mix the filling until homogeneity.
  
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  10. Roll the cooled dough into a 3 mm thick layer. Cut out round blanks of 10-12 cm diameter from dough.
  
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  11. On each blank let’s put 1 tablespoon of filling.
  
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  12. Fold the preparations in half, carefully pinch the edge of the dough and form a decorative braid.
  
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  13. Put the preparations on the baking sheet, covered with parchment paper, in a short distance from each other. At will, the preparations may be greased with whipped yolks.
  
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  14. Send sochniki with cottage cheese and banana to the oven heated to 200 degrees. Bake the products for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Cool the ready pastries to room temperature and decorate with sugar powder.
  
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  15. Bon Appetite!