Cottage Cheese Casserole with Cherries

The cottage cheese casserole with cherries turns out to be very tasty, juicy, with a pleasant balance of the sweetness of the curd mass and the sourness of the cherry. Due to the fact that frozen cherries are used in the recipe, you can cook such a casserole at any time of the year. And this curd casserole has a special twist – a golden-brown crust of baked whipped proteins!

Summary

Ingredients

• Fat cottage cheese – 400 g
• Frozen cherries – 400 g (pitted weight)
• Semolina – 100 g
• Cream (or any other dairy or fermented milk product) – 100 ml
• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Sugar – 150 g
• Powdered sugar – 0.5 tbsp
• Vanillin – 1 pinch
• Salt – 2 pinches

To prepare the form:

• Butter – 2 teaspoon
• Semolina – 0.5 tbsp

Instructions

1. Prepare all the ingredients you need to make your cherry curd casserole. Defrost cherries in advance on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.
2. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Add sugar to the yolks. Whisk or use a mixer to stir the yolks and sugar until combined.

   

3. Pour cream into the yolks (they can be replaced with any fermented milk or dairy product – kefir, yogurt, milk, etc.), add vanillin, and a pinch of salt. Stir. Then add the semolina immediately. Stir again.
4. Add cottage cheese to the yolk base. I used soft fat homemade cottage cheese. Stir the mixture with a spoon until the ingredients are evenly distributed among themselves.
5. Turn on the oven to heat up to 200 degrees. Grease a baking dish with butter and sprinkle with semolina. Put about half of the curd mass in the prepared form, flatten.
6. Remove the seeds from the cherries, drain the resulting juice. Place the cherries on the curd layer. Cover the cherries with the remaining curd mass on top and smooth.

   

7. Beat two squirrels (we don’t need one) with a pinch of salt in a mixer until strong peaks. Put the whipped egg whites on the top curd layer, smooth with a spatula. Cook the curd casserole with cherries in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for about 35-40 minutes.
8. Let the finished curd casserole with cherries cool until warm. Then sprinkle with powdered sugar on the casserole. Cut the casserole into portions and serve for breakfast or dessert. This cottage cheese casserole is equally good both warm and cold (I liked the cooled one better).

   

Enjoy your meal!