Fried Manniks Stuffed with Cottage Cheese

A wonderful alternative to the usual cottage cheese pancakes with semolina is the most delicate manniki stuffed with cottage cheese. Thanks to a couple of tricks, it will not be difficult to cook such manniks and will not take much time. Very original breakfast made from available products!

Ingredients

• For thick semolina porridge:
• Milk – 250 ml
• Semolina – 70 g
• Sugar – 50 g
• Salt – a pinch
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  For filling:
• Cottage cheese – 100 g
• Sugar – 50 g
• Vanillin – a pinch
• Yolk – 1 pc.
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• Wheat flour (for burning) – 1 tbsp
• Egg (for rolling) – 1 pc.
• Butter (for frying) – 30 g
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  For filing (optional):
• Powdered sugar – to taste
• Jam / sour cream / jam – to taste

Directions

1. We prepare products according to the list. From the specified amount, I got 6 medium-sized manna. If desired, you can add a little raisins, chopped dried apricots or prunes to the curd filling. Cooking the filling. Combine cottage cheese, sugar and yolk in a deep bowl. Add vanillin. We mix.

   

2. It is better to cook porridge for manniks right away – it does not take much time, but freshly brewed semolina porridge is more plastic and it is easier to give it the desired shape, which is quite important for making manna. Cook thick semolina porridge. Pour milk into a saucepan or stewpan, put it on heat and bring to a boil. Then we reduce the heat to a minimum, add sugar and salt. We mix. Stir constantly, pour semolina in a thin stream. Stirring occasionally, cook the semolina over low heat for about 3-4 minutes, until thickened.
3. We begin to form manna. You need to do everything as quickly as possible so that the semolina does not have time to cool down. Sprinkle the work surface (table, dish, board or tray) with flour. Each time, dipping a tablespoon into cold water, spread the hot porridge on the work surface in small lumps at a distance from each other. Flatten each lump of porridge and put about 1 teaspoon of curd filling in the center of the resulting cake. Gently connect the edges of the cake, hiding the filling inside and give the resulting manna an oblong shape. In the same way, we form the rest of the manna with curd filling.

   

4. Melt the butter in a frying pan over low heat. Break the egg into a separate bowl and shake with a fork. We dip each manna in an egg. We spread the manna in a frying pan preheated with butter. We fry the manniki over low heat for about 2-3 minutes on each side, until golden brown. Delicate manniks with curd filling are ready. We serve them to the table, if desired, sprinkle with powdered sugar and add jam, sour cream or jam.

Bon Appetit!