How to make cottage cheese donuts: a tasty treat for tea

Who doesn't love various tasty treats and sweets, especially homemade ones, such as flavorful pies, buns, and pizza? However, these dishes often don't turn out well because of the dough and incorrect proportions.

Today FoodOboz editorial team shares 2 recipes for fluffy, airy and delicious cottage cheese donuts that will be a great addition to tea.

1. With cherries

Ingredients:

• flour - 1 kg
• yeast - 40 g
• cottage cheese - 400-500 g
• milk - 1 glass
• eggs - 2 pcs
• yolks - 2 pcs
• sugar - 100 g
• butter - 100 g
• cherries - 500-700 g
• oil - 0.5 liters
• powdered sugar - 50 g
• salt - a pinch

How to prepare:

1. Heat the milk, add the yeast, 1 tbsp of sugar, salt, and 1 tbsp of flour. Mix everything thoroughly and leave for 10-15 minutes.
2. Grind the cottage cheese through a sieve, add eggs, sugar and melted butter, put everything in a blender and beat until smooth.
3. Add the resulting cottage cheese mixture to the yeast mixture and mix.
4. Sift the remaining flour and add to the dough. Mix well.
5. Put the finished dough into a deep bowl, cover with cling film and leave it for 1 hour to rise.
6. Wash the cherries and remove the pits.
7. When the dough is ready, you can start forming the donuts: take a ball of dough with your hands, make a depression, put a few cherries in it, and roll it into a ball with your hands.
8. Heat the oil well in a deep frying pan, throw the donuts in, and fry until they are done.
9. Afterwards, put them on a paper towel to drain all the excess fat.
10. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

2. Without yeast and oil

Ingredients:

• flour - 300 g
• baking powder - 1 tsp
• vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
• sour cream - 50 g
• cottage cheese - 300 g
• sugar - 80 g
• eggs - 1 pc
• oil - 1 tbsp
• salt - a pinch

Method of preparation:

1. Beat the egg with sugar and vanilla sugar, add salt, sour cream, butter and cottage cheese, and mix thoroughly.
2. Sift the flour twice, add the baking powder and mix. Knead the elastic dough with your hands.
3. Sprinkle the table with flour and put the dough out, mixing well again. Then make a sausage out of the dough, divide it into 10-12 pieces, make balls and press them down a little
4. Take a small cup and squeeze out the center.
5. Cover a baking sheet with parchment and put the donuts on it. Be sure to brush with milk so they will be golden brown.
6. Bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.
7. Sprinkle the finished donuts with powdered sugar, it will be delicious.