Cottage cheese is a versatile, low-fat ingredient used in various desserts. Popular recipes include mixing it with fruit, baking it into biscuits or cakes, and combining it with sour cream for a sweet cake or ice cream. Indian desserts use cottage cheese in a simple syrup.
There are a number of cottage cheese desserts, mainly because it’s a versatile, low-fat alternative to some other ingredients. The most popular of the ricotta desserts probably involves using the fruit in some way, even if it’s simply mixing canned fruit with the cheese. Cottage cheese can be mixed with flour, sugar and baking soda and baked into sweet biscuits. The same dough, with a little more liquid and blueberries, can be made into a dessert pancake. There are also recipes for ricotta cake, ice cream and whipped desserts.
The subtle flavor and smooth texture of cottage cheese make it a natural accompaniment to fruit. The simplest of all cottage cheese desserts is to simply fold sliced fruit or whole berries into a bowl of cottage cheese, possibly with a tablespoon of sugar. A more complex preparation might involve reducing the fruits to a thick sauce and blending the liquid into the cheese. A very quick dish uses powdered gelatin added to cheese along with frozen whipped dessert cream and some fruit to make a cold ricotta pudding.
There are cottage cheese desserts that use cheese in baked or fried dishes. One of the simplest is a mixture of cottage cheese, flour, baking soda and sugar. This is baked until set to create a small dessert cake with a slight flavour. The same type of batter can be thinned out and fried in butter to make a dessert pancake or put on a griddle to make a dessert waffle. Some cake batters may have a richer flavor if cottage cheese is mixed with them instead of cream or other ingredients.
A good pairing for some cottage cheese is sour cream. The two can be combined with eggs and sugar, heated in a pan, breaded in a conch, and baked to create a thick, sweet dessert cake. They can be used in a similar way to create a liquid that can be placed in an ice cream maker and frozen into thick ice cream.
In India, cottage cheese desserts are very simple and use cheese modestly. One recipe calls for a syrup of water and sugar to be heated in a pan. The ricotta curds are dried a bit and then pressed together into tight balls. These balls are dropped in sweet syrup and cooked until they are slightly firmer in texture and have absorbed some of the sugary liquid.
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