How to cook cottage cheese pancakes in a festive way: in orange syrup with rum

A favorite breakfast, a quick snack, a light dessert, and just an extremely tasty and satisfying dish – their majesty cottage cheese cottage cheese pancakes. For a festive version, this delicacy can be cooked in orange syrup: the sweet and sour flavor of the fruit and delicate cottage cheese create an incredible combination. The only important thing is to properly prepare the cottage cheese for cooking.

Chef alisa__cooper shared her secrets and recipe for festive cottage cheese pancakes in orange syrup. Posted on Instagram.

Some tips from the expert:

• Any cottage cheese should always be squeezed out of excess moisture. This should be done through a waffle towel or cheesecloth. Otherwise, the product will leak.
• For the cottage cheese pancakes to keep their shape, do not knead the cottage cheese for a long time.

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• cottage cheese - 300 g

• egg yolk - 1 pc.
• sugar - 20 g
• flour - 25 g
• cinnamon

For the sauce:

• orange - 1.5 pcs.
• sugar - 1.5 tbsp
• rum

Method of preparation:

1. Using a fork, mix the cottage cheese, egg yolk and sugar.

2. Add flour and mix.

3. Form the sausage, cut it into portions with a knife and form cottage cheese pancakes .

4. Fry until golden brown.

5. Prepare the sauce. To do this, zest the orange and cut it thinly. Peel and cut into slices.

6. Squeeze the juice from the trimmings and the other half of the orange.

7. Heat the juice with sugar and zest in a frying pan.

8. Put the cottage cheese pancakes, bring the sauce to a boil and let it thicken.

9. You can also heat orange slices in the sauce.