"Ukrainian south has a lot to share to the world, I often call it the last terra incognita on the European food map, because a lot of the recipes and techniques are unique and not reviled yet. Today I would like to share one of this recipes, easy and brilliant zapekanka, has it's own cheesecake recipe called zapekanka, which is the name for Baked curd cheesecake in Ukrainian."
Baked curd cheesecake or zapekanka
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Prep time 40mins
Cook time 30mins
Serves or Makes: 4
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ingredients
- 450 gram dry mall curd cottage cheese
- 1 piece egg
- 4 tabelspoons semolina
- 4 tabelspoons castor sugar
- 2 tabelspoons sourcream
- 1 tabelspoons vanilla paste
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 teasopon butter for greasing
Method
Step 1
Heat the oven to 180°C. Add cottage cheese, egg, sugar, salt, and vanilla to the bowl. Beat with a hand blender until smooth. Add semolina and mix well. Set aside for 20-30 minutes to make the semolina swell.
Step 2
Butter the ramekins. Spread the cheese mass evenly among the dishes, and top each with sour cream. Put the ramekins in the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes.
Tips and tricks
Step 1
You can cook this cheesecake either in small dishes or in a large one 🙂 If your cottage cheese is too dry, add a small piece of butter to it. For a change you can add raisins or candied fruits to the cheesecake. If you need to get a ready-made cheesecake out of the dish, then after you butter the ramekins, sprinkle them a little with semolina. The cheesecake is delicious, both hot and cold. But if you need to warm it, place it in the ramekin in the oven and pour a little water on top. So that your cheesecake does not dry out while it is warming up.