Curd Easter in the oven: recipe. Easter cottage cheese "Tsarskaya" custard. Form for cottage cheese Easter

What is the famous Easter curd? Cottage cheese according to the Christian canons is an integral element of the festive table, symbolizing a "mulled thickening" of the promised land. In ancient times, cottage cheese was a sacred food, eating which people worshiped the deities of fertility. Since the bright Easter is celebrated for 40 days, our recipes will add variety to the everyday menu, becoming the decoration of the table.

More than food

In ancient times, without any cottage cheese, no major rite could have been done, whether it was the first plowing of the land or the ceremonies of greeting. Cottage cheese was considered the highest creation, the essence of food and the crown of benefit for man. In addition, our ancestors do not allow themselves to allow cottage cheese as a daily meal. Hence the tradition began to eat this royal feast exclusively on holidays. Over the years, priorities have changed, but the symbol of blessed food, which is Easter curd, remained.

The recipe for Easter baked in the oven

This kind of Easter is baked in an oven like a cake and has a taste reminiscent of curd pudding. It is better to buy a pasochnitsu - a special form for the holiday baking. The dish in it turns out beautiful and festive. If the form for cottage cheese is missing for some reason, you can replace it with special paper cakes for Easter cakes. However, in this case, you need to be prepared for the fact that the paper will strongly stick to the Easter. When it comes to cutting a festive dish for servings, all the beauty will have to be spoiled. Meanwhile, the baked Easter can be held in the refrigerator until the holiday for several days.

Easter cottage cheese

Ingredients:

• Fatty cottage cheese - 1,250 g;
• Wheat flour (semolina) - 150 g;
• Granulated sugar - 1 glass;
• Chicken eggs - 10 pieces;
• Cream of high fat content - 80 g;
• Raisins, candied fruits - 4 tablespoons.

Cooking dough

Since fresh natural curd has characteristic grains, we will rub it through a sieve or try to homogenize it with a blender. When the lumps are broken, add to the cottage cheese granulated sugar, cream, as well as sifted flour. All thoroughly mixed. Who loves a manga, can safely replace it with flour.

We take the eggs and separate the yolks from the proteins. Curd Easter in the oven, the recipe of which we are now mastering, will turn out to be in a special gentle and enriched with oxygen, if yolks and whites for celebratory baking are whipped and kneaded separately.

First we'll fry the yolks to a lush foam and add half of the resulting curd mass to them. Then we'll do all the same with the proteins. We will construct from them a dense mass and add the remains of the cottage cheese dough. Proteins, in contrast to yolks, have to be mixed with the rest of the ingredients with extreme caution.

We connect the contents of both containers together and carefully knead it with a wooden spatula. Then add candied fruits and raisins. The more air bubbles penetrate the curd mass with mixing, the better for the ready-made dish.

Put the dough on the mold

So, it's time to lay out the tender dough obtained in the pasochnitsu or in special paper cups. Before laying out the dough, the shape for cottage cheese must be greased with butter. When we pour in the dough, make sure that the conical shape or paper cups do not fill more than ¾ of the volume. During the baking time (40 minutes for one large form), the mass will just rise to the top of the mold. The oven should already be heated to 180 degrees, we do not need a higher temperature. If your form is paper, and the capacity is small, then, accordingly, the baking time can be reduced to 30 minutes. Curd pasta, baked in paper form, came to readiness, when when you press your hands on the sides you feel a solid density. It happens that the tip of the cake begins to acquire a characteristic golden hue even long before the expiration of time. In this case, you can resort to a little trick: cover the cake with foil. The usual parchment white paper is also suitable. In this case, the cottage cheese Easter in the oven will have time to properly bake, and the tip will not burn at the same time.

After the cooking time has expired in the recipe, and the cake will be taken out of the oven, do not rush it and immediately remove it from the mold. Ready-made cottage cheese must stay in the mold for at least an hour and a half. Up to this point, you can not disturb and decorate Easter cake.

How can I decorate?

We have reached the final stage. Cottage cheese Easter in the oven thoroughly rose and baked, even had time to cool. Now you can decorate our festive dish. Options for decorating an incredible variety, it all depends on the imagination of the chef and his creative inspiration. For the glaze is suitable melted sugar, as well as white and dark chocolate. Over the glaze the festive dish is additionally sprinkled with crushed nuts, candied fruits or a culinary colored powder. Also on sale are various decorations for a cake made from colored glaze. Dare and decorate!

Easter cottage cheese before serving should be stable and properly soaked, so the dish should be prepared on the eve of the holiday, at least a day. In order for the festive pastry to be especially tender and airy, it is better to keep it in the refrigerator.

Royal food

We have already said that in the olden days, cottage cheese as the main dish, and also as an ingredient to various pastries, was available exclusively to royal people. In our time, cottage cheese is available to everyone without exception, but the name of some dishes was fixed after them from those times immemorial. Now we will learn how to cook such a dish, like the easter cottage cheese, with the usual ingredients, but with an unusual name.

One of the main attributes of the festive table

It is impossible to imagine a festive Easter table without three main attributes: colored eggs, Easter cakes and cottage cheese. If you are not strong in "royal" baking, we suggest that you, as they say, get your hand, practice and sharpen your culinary skills. Here is the list of ingredients that we will need:

• Cottage cheese fat -1 kg;
• Egg of chicken - 5 pieces;
• Sour cream - 400 g;
• Granulated sugar - 1/5 cup;
• Butter - 200 g;
• Vanillin - 1 sachet;
• Walnuts or almonds - 50 g;
• Candied fruits, raisins - for 50 g.

Curd pasta cooks, as we see, without flour. All the ingredients, like pudding, will be cooked in a saucepan. The festive dish will have an unusually tender and sweet taste. In advance we will take the oil from the refrigerator and bring it at room temperature to the state of softness.

Preparation of mass

To cottage cheese Easter cake has a homogeneous structure, we will rub cottage cheese through a sieve and get rid of lumps. Add to the curd softened butter, eggs, sugar and sour cream. We knead the mass to a state of homogeneous consistency.

Heating process

Now comes the most crucial moment, which should not be distracted for a minute. We spread a delicate curd mass in a saucepan or in another enameled vessel and put it on the fire. Start stirring the mixture to avoid burning. Easter cottage cheese should go to a boil, but it does not lose its flavor. As soon as the mass begins to boil, immediately remove the composition from the fire and cool it. If we did everything correctly and regularly stirred, then no signs of burning on the bottom of the pot will be found.

When easter curd (royal) will cool, you can add the rest of the ingredients: vanillin, crushed nuts and raisins with candied fruits. Not everyone likes to use candied fruits to cook this dish. In this case, you can omit this component.

Forming the Passover

Now we will give our festive dish a beautiful shape. To do this, take the pasochnitsu and put inside a moist sterile gauze. Over the gauze in the form we place the curd mass, thoroughly primed. In order for Easter cottage cheese to form, it is necessary to place a load on top. This can be an ordinary saucer, which is additionally supplied with a glass of water. The covetous festive dish should also be prepared the day before, since it is necessary to have at least a day for giving the original form.

Ease of cooking

Easter cottage cheese does not take much time from the hostess in the kitchen. This dish is both tasty and significant for all Christians at the same time. Besides, it's not a sin to show such a Passover to guests, let them be surprised.

The recipe from great-grandmother

In each house, the cottage cheese Easter in the oven is baked according to its traditions. For years, people adapted well-known recipes to their taste preferences. We bring to your attention one of such numerous adaptations. As ingredients you will need:

• Fresh cottage cheese - 1 kg;
• Starch - 1 glass;
• Granulated sugar - 1 glass;
• Egg yolks - 5 pieces;
• Eggs of chicken - 5 pieces;
• Butter - 150 g;
• Raisins sweet - 1 glass;
• Walnuts -1 glass;
• Lemon peel;
• vanillin.

We remember that curd pasta is prepared only from soft butter. Therefore, beforehand we get the oil from the refrigerator. At this time, prepare the ingredients used in the dish. To begin with, we will thoroughly rinse the raisins in a colander. Then chop the walnuts in a mortar or with a rolling pin. Cottage cheese can be wiped through a sieve or scrolled through a meat grinder.

Cooking dough

Easter cottage cheese is prepared in a certain sequence. First, in buttered cottage cheese, we introduce oil, which stood at room temperature. Mass properly mixed. Whisk eggs in a separate vessel together with sugar. You can use a mixer or blender. In the process of whipping, fall asleep in a mass pinch of vanillin, lemon zest and starch. We do not stop whipping all the time. We combine egg and curd mass, add raisins and crushed walnuts. Do not beat, but mix with a wooden spatula.

Curd Easter in the oven, the recipe of which we propose to you, will turn out to be very lush, so we'll fill the mold into only half the volume. Do not forget to grease the shape with butter. Ideally, the dough should be laid with oiled parchment paper - so the ready-made cottage cheese will be easily removed from the mold. We preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake, depending on the volume of the mold from one hour to one and a half. We hope that our Easter Passover (photo is available in the review) will be your liking and will be the main element of the annual festive table.