photo: niftyrecipe.com Cottage Cheese Puffs

Cottage Cheese Puffs

Earlier we’ve already prepared open puffs with cottage cheese and lemon zest from non-yeast puff pastry. Puffs with cottage cheese, the recipe I offer you to prepare today, we will form in the shape of small rolls with raisins and poppy. The delicious layered and crisp base is perfectly combined with a gentle cottage cheese filling. Puffs are very tasty, soft and fragrant. To make home-made pastries even tastier, apart from raisins, you can add candied fruits, dried apricot, prunes, cherries or finely chopped nuts to the filling. Preparation of sweet cottage cheese puffs according to this recipe won’t take long, and the result will certainly please you! Follow the step-by-step recipe with the photo, and everything will work out!
Ingredients
40 min


Ingredients

  • Non yeast puff pastry
    500 g
  • Cottage cheese
    400 g
  • Egg
    2 pcs
  • Sugar
    3 tbsp
  • Whole wheat flour
    1-2 tbsp
  • Raisins
    100 g
  • Vanilla sugar
    0.5 tsp
  • Poppy seeds
    1 tbsp



Steps

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    1. In advance take out non-yeast puff pastry from the fridge so that it unfreezes and becomes elastic. In deep bowl let’s connect cottage cheese, sugar and vanilla sugar.
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    2. Sort raisins, pour with boiling water and leave for 10 minutes. Then drain water from raisins, dry fruits on a paper towel and add to the filling. Add 1 chicken egg to received mixture.
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    3. Mix the filling thoroughly, achieving homogeneous consistence. If the filling is too liquid, add 1 tablespoon of corn starch or wheat flour.
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    4. On the working surface dusted with flour, roll unfrozen puff pastry into a rectangular form with thickness of 3-4 mm.
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    5. On top of the dough let’s place a cottage cheese filling, leaving one edge of the dough free for 2 cm. Using a culinary brush, grease a free edge of the dough with a whipped egg so that during baking the puffs with cottage cheese hold the shape well.
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    6. Carefully roll the preparation by moving towards the filling-free edge. With sharp knife cut the roll into segments with width of 3-4 cm.
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    7. Put the puffs on the baking sheet, lined with parchment paper, on a short distance from each other. Grease each puff with whipped egg and decorate with poppy.
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    8. Bake cottage cheese puffs made of puff pastry in the oven pre-heated to 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes until golden shade.
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    9. Cool the ready pastries to room temperature and serve with tea, coffee or milk.
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    10. Bon Appetite!




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