Puff Pastry with Cottage Cheese and Jam

For the filling, use blueberry, apricot, or cherry jam. Instead of jam, you can use fresh berries cooked with sugar and starch for five minutes. Cut the baked pie into slices and serve hot with tea, milk, or coffee.

Ingredients

• Puff Pastry - 500 g
• Cottage Cheese - 350 g
• Sugar - 4 tbsp
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp
• Egg - 1
• Berry jam - 150 g
• Fresh berries - 200 g
• Milk - 1 tbsp
• Powdered sugar - 1/2 glass
• Almond flakes - to taste

Directions

1. Whip cottage cheese with sugar and lemon juice.
2. Defrost the dough according to the instructions on the package and roll it out on a sheet of parchment as a 5 mm thick rectangle, 30x40 cm.
3. Put the dough with the narrow side closer to you and divide it lengthwise into three parts. Cut the left and right parts into 1 cm wide strips at an angle of 45°. Keep the middle part intact.
4. Spread the cottage cheese filling in the center, and spread a thin layer of jam or berries grated with sugar. Add some fresh berries.
5. Wrap part of the dough around the filling at the top and bottom. Next braid the strips of dough over the filling.
6. Place the pie on the parchment onto a baking sheet and grease with an egg beaten with a tablespoon of water. Put in the oven preheated to 190 °C and bake for 20-25 minutes until light golden brown. Leave the baked pie to cool.
7. Mix powdered sugar with milk. Put icing on a cold cake, and decorate with berries and almond flakes.
8. Enjoy!