Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Cherry Sauce

Name: Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Cherry Sauce
Ingredients: 300 g dry cottage cheese; 2 tbsp semolina (or flour); 2 tbsp sugar; 1 packet vanilla sugar (10 g); 1 egg; pinch of salt; 2-3 tbsp flour for breading; vegetable oil for frying; 100 g pitted cherries (frozen or fresh); 2 tbsp sugar; 2 tsp starch (potato)

One of the most important conditions for making good cottage cheese pancakes is using dry, crumbly cottage cheese. Wet, smooth cottage cheese doesn't work well — you end up having to add more flour or semolina to keep them from spreading in the pan, and the cottage cheese flavor really suffers. For this recipe I used dry cottage cheese with 9% fat content. You can make these pancakes with semolina or with flour. It's hard to say which version is better or tastier — I switch between the two depending on my mood. I'd recommend trying both to figure out which one you prefer. With these amounts I got 8 pancakes and 250 ml of cherry sauce.

Ingredients:

300 g dry cottage cheese
2 tbsp semolina (or flour)
2 tbsp sugar
1 packet vanilla sugar (10 g)
1 egg
pinch of salt
2-3 tbsp flour for breading
vegetable oil for frying
Sauce:
100 g pitted cherries (frozen or fresh)
2 tbsp sugar
2 tsp starch (potato)

How to cook cottage cheese pancakes with cherry sauce

First, let's make the cherry sauce so it has time to cool. Place the cherries in a small saucepan without thawing, add the sugar and 150 ml of water. Bring to a boil and cook for 2-3 minutes.

Dissolve the starch in 50 ml of cold water. While stirring, pour the starch mixture into the cherry liquid in a thin stream.

Wait 5-10 seconds, then turn off the heat. Set the sauce aside to cool.

Now let's make the cottage cheese pancakes. Mash the cottage cheese thoroughly with a spoon.

Add the semolina (or flour), sugar, vanilla sugar, egg, and salt.

Mix everything together well. If you used semolina, let the mixture rest for 5-10 minutes to allow the semolina to swell.

Sprinkle flour onto a plate and drop a heaping tablespoon of the cottage cheese mixture on top.

Coat well in the flour and flatten slightly.

Heat vegetable oil in a skillet. Add the pancakes and fry over medium heat for 3-5 minutes.

Flip to the other side and fry the same way. Then reduce the heat to the lowest setting and cook the pancakes for a few more minutes until fully done.