Pumpkin Cottage Cheese Casserole

Delicious, healthy, inexpensive and beautiful casserole with pumpkin! Cottage cheese and pumpkin casserole is as tasty as it is beautiful. It is easy to prepare, even an inexperienced cook can handle it. You donʼt have to add poppy seeds, but itʼs more interesting. Prepare such pastries for your child in the morning, and the problem with breakfast will be solved.
cook time: 2h
Logan Winslow
Pumpkin Cottage Cheese Casserole

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

161
Calories
6g
Fat
19g
Carbs
7g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

Curd dough:

Sugar 50 g
Eggs 1 pc
Starch 0.5 tbsp
Cottage cheese 250 g
Vanilla sugar 1 tbsp
Poppy food 15 g

Pumpkin dough:

Sugar 25 g
Eggs 1 pc
Pumpkin 250 g
Starch 1 tbsp
Tangerine zest 1 tbsp

Fill:

Sugar 2 tbsp
Eggs 1 pc
Sour cream 50 g
Pumpkin 50 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make cottage cheese casserole? Prepare the necessary products for the curd layer. Cottage cheese and eggs should be at room temperature; remove them from the refrigerator in advance. Which cottage cheese is better to use? It can be of any fat content. But a casserole made from fatty cottage cheese will be tastier. You can add a couple of spoons of sour cream, kefir or milk to low-fat cottage cheese. Rub the lumpy cottage cheese through a fine sieve or grind through a meat grinder. It should be airy

Step 2

Step 2
In a bowl, combine cottage cheese, sugar, vanilla sugar, egg and starch. Sugar can be replaced with a sweetener that is not susceptible to heat treatment. Instead of vanilla sugar, you can use vanillin (at the tip of a knife). It is important to be careful with the dosage of vanillin, because if you overdo it, the taste of the baked goods will be bitter. Potato starch can be replaced with corn starch, but the amount will need to be doubled.

Step 3

Step 3
Beat the curd mixture with a blender until smooth, airy and homogeneous.

Step 4

Step 4
Wash the edible poppy seeds, pour boiling water over them, and leave to steep for 10-20 minutes. Then drain the liquid and add the poppy seeds to the curd mixture. Stir well.

Step 5

Step 5
Prepare everything for the pumpkin dough. Which pumpkin is best? If you want the casserole to be bright and sunny, choose a fruit with thin skin, bright orange, dense, sweet flesh. Wash, peel and seeds the fruit, cut into small pieces and puree using a blender or grate on a fine grater. Squeeze out excess liquid.

Step 6

Step 6
In a bowl, combine pumpkin puree, sugar, egg and tangerine zest. Instead of tangerine, you can grate orange or lemon zest.

Step 7

Step 7
Beat the mixture with an immersion blender until creamy.

Step 8

Step 8
Take a heat-resistant mold with a diameter of 20*20 cm. It can be silicone, glass or metal. To prevent baked goods from burning, grease the bottom and sides of the dish with oil or line with oiled baking paper. There is no need to lubricate the silicone mold. Place a couple of spoons (about 2 tablespoons) of pumpkin mixture in the center. Apply curd-poppy mixture on top. Alternate layers, filling the entire pan, until both mixtures are used up.

Step 9

Step 9
In advance (10-15 minutes before cooking), preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Bake the casserole for about 40 minutes. Focus on the features of your oven. Baking temperature and time may be higher or lower than indicated.

Step 10

Step 10
Without wasting time, prepare the filling. For filling, it is better to use full-fat sour cream with at least 20-25% fat content.

Step 11

Step 11
In a bowl, combine pumpkin puree, sour cream, sugar (or a sweetener that is not afraid of heat treatment) and one large chicken egg.

Step 12

Step 12
Beat with a blender until smooth.

Step 13

Step 13
Remove the casserole dish from the oven and carefully pour the pumpkin sour cream filling on top evenly. Level the surface with a silicone spatula. Return to the oven for another 25 minutes. When the edges of the filling are set and the center is slightly quivering, turn off the heat. Open the oven doors and leave for 15 minutes. Then remove the baking dish and cool it completely at room temperature.

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