Cottage cheese casserole with apples

I do not get tired of sharing with you new recipes for cottage cheese casseroles, and this time I propose to try with apples. Delicate, nourishing and fragrant homemade cottage cheese casserole with slices of juicy sweet and sour apples. With a cup of fragrant tea, it is good both warm and cold - be sure to cook it!

Cottage cheese for casseroles is suitable for any fat content (I used 5%), but the fatter the product, the more satisfying and tender the finished dish turns out. The same goes for milk. We take large chicken eggs (about 60-65 grams each). You can try to replace semolina with potato or corn starch, but I won't tell you the exact amount, so you will have to determine it yourself and only empirically.

The amount of sugar in the cottage cheese casserole depends on the acidity of the cottage cheese and your taste (I do not advise you to reduce the sweet tooth). Choose apples that are dense, juicy, sweet and sour varieties. For flavoring, you can add a little vanilla sugar or vanillin to the curd base (if desired and possible, replace with natural vanilla), citrus zest or even cinnamon.

Ingredients

• Cottage cheese (800 grams)
• Apple apple (300 grams)
• Chicken eggs (3 pieces)
• MilkMilk (160 milliliters)
• Semolina (80 grams)
• SugarSugar (80 grams)
• Butter(30 grams)

Directions

1. To make homemade cottage cheese casserole, we need the following ingredients: cottage cheese, granulated sugar, chicken eggs, semolina, milk, apples and butter (to grease the mold). All foods should be at room temperature.
2. Take a bowl, pour 80 grams of semolina into it and fill it with milk (160 milliliters). Mix and leave on the table so that the semolina swells.
3. I strongly advise you to rub 800 grams of cottage cheese through a sieve. I agree, the process is rather dreary, but it's worth it - after wiping, not a single large lump will remain.
4. After 15-17 minutes, all the cottage cheese will be like a light and airy cloud.
5. In a separate bowl, combine 3 large chicken eggs (you can replace 4 or 5 small ones) with 80 grams of sugar. At this point, you can add your favorite flavor (vanilla, citrus, cinnamon).
6. Beat the eggs and sugar with a mixer or whisk until the sugar crystals dissolve.
7. Pour semolina swollen in milk to the curd.
8. Next, pour the eggs, beaten with sugar, which represent an air mass.
9. Mix everything thoroughly - the base for the curd casserole is ready.
10. Last but not least, we will deal with apples (so that they do not have time to darken), while we do not forget to turn on the oven to warm up (170-180 degrees). Wash the apples, dry them, cut off the skin, remove the seed boxes, and cut the pulp into a small cube.
11. We shift the prepared apple slices (300 grams is the weight of the fruits already prepared in this way) into the curd base.
12. Mix thoroughly so that the apple pieces are evenly distributed over the curd mass.
13. Grease the baking dish with soft butter (30 grams) - the bottom and sides.
14. We shift the curd base with apples into a mold, level it with a spoon or spatula.
15. We bake cottage cheese casserole with apples in a preheated oven at 170-180 degrees for 40-60 hours. Cooking times may vary depending on the size and height of the dish and the characteristics of the oven. I have a gas oven, bottom heating, middle grate level, no convection. We take the finished casserole out of the oven, let it cool for 10 minutes, after which you can serve it if you like it hot.
16. Delicate, nourishing and fragrant homemade cottage cheese casserole with slices of juicy sweet and sour apples. With a cup of fragrant tea, it is good both warm and cold - be sure to try it! Cook for your health, friends, and bon appetit!