Grandma's Cheesecakes

by Editorial Staff

The most delicious breakfast is warm cheesecakes and a cup of aromatic tea. This is my grandmother’s recipe for cheese pancakes with sour cream.

Summary

Course	Dessert
Cuisine	Russian

Ingredients

Cottage cheese – 300 g
Egg – 1 pc.
Sour cream or yogurt – 2 tbsp
Flour – about 130 g (1 glass of 200 ml)
Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
Sugar – 1-2 tbsp (to taste)
Salt – 1 pinch
Vegetable oil – for frying

Instructions

Mash cottage cheese thoroughly with sugar. Add egg, sour cream, salt, baking powder. Mix everything well. Then add flour. Stir the curd dough thoroughly.
Divide the dough into 2 parts. Roll a sausage from each part. Cut the dough sausage into slices about 2 cm wide. Form curd cakes and roll them in flour.
Preheat a frying pan, pour in vegetable oil. Put the cheese cakes in hot oil. Fry syrniki over medium heat, first covered for 3-5 minutes, until golden brown on one side. Then turn the syrniki over to the other side and fry without a lid, also until golden brown, for another 2-3 minutes. The cheesecakes are ready!

Bon Appetit!

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