What to add to cottage cheese casserole dough to keep its shape: we share a secret

Cottage cheese casserole is an ideal dish for a quick breakfast, and it can also be served as a dessert for tea. To keep the casserole in shape, add semolina or starch.

Cook Marichka Gorodetska shared a recipe for a delicious cottage cheese casserole with poppy seeds, vanilla sugar, and butter on Instagram.

To keep the casserole in shape, add butter to the dough!

Ingredients:

• cottage cheese - 3 kg

• sugar - 700 g

• eggs - 8 pcs.
• poppy seeds - 200 g

• butter - 200 g
• semolina or starch - 3 tbsp.

• vanilla sugar - to taste
• powdered sugar for decoration

Method of preparation:

1. Grind or beat the cottage cheese in a blender.

2. Add the semolina, starch, vanilla sugar, butter to the cottage cheese mixture and mix well with a mixer.

3. Set aside 1 kg of the curd mass and add the poppy seeds, mix thoroughly and put into a baking dish.

4. Top with the remaining curd mass and place in a preheated oven.

5. Bake for 1 hour at 180°C.

When the casserole has cooled, you can pour chocolate fondant over it and sprinkle with powdered sugar!