Lazy vareniki with cottage cheese - tasty, useful, convenient.

Cottage cheese is a useful and necessary product for childrenand adults. Empty cottage cheese every day there is not - bored, so many mistresses try to pamper their households with various curd treats.

Dishes of cottage cheese for each day should not beonly dietary and delicious, but also quickly prepared. One of the most successful dishes in this respect are lazy vareniki with cottage cheese, the preparation of which will take no more than 15-20 minutes.

These vareniki are not only simply prepared withminimum time, but can still be stored in the freezer for several days and are great for breakfast and dinner. If desired, the classic lazy vareniki with curd can easily be modified by adding raisins, cherries, potatoes, semolina, wheat crumbs. And you can serve dumplings with butter, sour cream, jam, syrup, fruit, sauces. Especially delicious dumplings are obtained from the cottage cheese of own cooking, because the fat content and calorie content of the home curd, and its nutritional quality is higher than that of the shop.

Traditional lazy vareniki are prepared as follows:

For 200 grams of cottage cheese you need to take 1 raw egg,50 grams of butter, 50 grams of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, a quarter of a glass of flour. If the cottage cheese is wet, flour will need half a glass. Not all the housewives put butter in the dough, although the dumplings with the oil are more gentle and soft. Flour in lazy vareniki should be less than cottage cheese, otherwise it will break the cottage cheese taste. Do not put too much sugar in the dough, otherwise the vareniki will simply fall apart during cooking. Sugar can not be added at all, then unsweetened vareniki can be served with herbs, garlic, mushroom, onion sauce.

Now you need to make a dough. The butter can be held at room temperature until it becomes soft. Then rub it with sugar, add salt, egg, cottage cheese and mix. At the end, add the flour and knead a thick dough, which should be sticky, but do not strongly stick to the hands. Dough to lie under a towel or lid for a few minutes, then put on a board, well sprinkled with flour. From the dough, form a sausage with a diameter of about 2.5 cm, slightly flatten it and cut into diamonds. The form of vareniki can be anything: circles, balls, triangles, bizarre figures.

Lazy vareniki with cottage cheese is best cooked inA large saucepan so that they do not stick together and do not deform. In the pot, pour water, put a teaspoon of salt and put on fire. When the water boils, gently put the dumplings in a saucepan, cook stirring. As soon as they come up, the fire is reduced, hold them on the fire for a minute and take out with a little noise. Serve the dish hot, with butter, vanilla sugar, sour cream, jam, etc.

Some mistresses instead of flour put 6 dining roomsspoons of mango. Stir such a dough with a fork and put in the fridge for half an hour, so that the mancha swells, and the dough becomes thick. The dough on the manke turns out very sticky, with insufficient density it is necessary to add one or two tablespoons of flour.

Another way to diversify lazy vareniki withcottage cheese - put some berries inside. For this, the dough is formed in the form of lozenges, put on them berries with powdered sugar or sand, tear, forming a ball.

After the vareniki are cooked, they can beput in a pot, add sour cream and put in the oven for a few minutes. Some people like to put yesterday's cold vareniki in a frying pan with butter and fry.

Lazy vareniki with low-fat cottage cheese -an indispensable dish for those who want to lose weight, because it has a low calorie content. Vareniki with cottage cheese diet are prepared without oil and instead of sugar put honey.