Cottage Cheese Casserole with Noodles and Apples

This seemingly completely Russian, even Soviet dish has Jewish roots. The Jewish counterpart is called kugel, which is very popular in home cooking.

Ingredients

• 50 g soft cottage cheese
• 3 eggs
• 100 g noodles
• 2 large green apples
• 3 tbsp. l. brown sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp orange liqueur
• 1 tbsp. l. butter
• 1 tbsp. l. ground crackers
• sour cream or yogurt for serving

Directions

1. Cook the noodles according to the instructions on the package, discard in a colander, rinse with cold water and dry.
2. Separate the whites from the yolks. Mash cottage cheese with yolks, sugar, liqueur and cinnamon.
3. Separate the whites from the yolks. Mash cottage cheese with yolks, sugar, liqueur and cinnamon.
4. Put the mass in a greased and sprinkled with breadcrumbs form and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 40–45 minutes. Serve the casserole hot with sour cream or yogurt.