Lazy vareniki with cottage cheese is tasty, useful, convenient.

Cottage cheese is a useful and necessary product for children and adults. Empty cottage cheese every day there is not - bored, so many mistresses try to pamper their households with various curd treats.

Dishes of cottage cheese for each day should not only be dietary and delicious, but also quickly prepared. One of the most successful dishes in this respect are lazy vareniki with cottage cheese, the preparation of which will take no more than 15-20 minutes.

These dumplings are not only just prepared with minimal time, but can still be stored in the freezer for several days and are great for breakfast and dinner. If desired, the classic lazy vareniki with curd can easily be modified by adding raisins, cherries, potatoes, semolina , wheat rusks. And you can serve dumplings with butter, sour cream, jam, syrup, fruit, sauces. Especially delicious dumplings are obtained from cottage cheese of own cooking, because the fat content and calorie content of the home cottage cheese, and its nutritional qualities are higher than that of the shop.

Traditional lazy vareniki Are prepared as follows:

For 200 grams of cottage cheese you need to take 1 raw egg, 50 grams of butter, 50 grams of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, a quarter of a glass of flour. If the cottage cheese is wet, flour will need half a glass. Not all the housewives put butter in the dough, although with the butter vareniki are obtained more gentle and soft. Flour in lazy vareniki should be less than cottage cheese, otherwise it will break the cottage cheese taste. Do not put too much sugar in the dough, otherwise vareniki will simply fall apart during cooking. Sugar can not be added at all, then unsweetened vareniki can be served with herbs, garlic, mushroom, onion sauce.

Now you need to make a dough. Keep the butter at room temperature until it becomes soft. Then grind it with sugar, add salt, egg, cottage cheese and mix. At the end, add the flour and knead a thick dough, which should be sticky, but not strongly stick to the hands. Dough to lie under a towel or lid for a few minutes, then put on a board, well sprinkled with flour. From the dough form a sausage with a diameter of about 2.5 cm, slightly flatten it and cut into diamonds. The shape of the vareniki can be anything: circles, balls, triangles, bizarre figures.

Lazy vareniki with cottage cheese is best cooked in a large saucepan so that they do not stick together and do not deform. In the pot, pour water, put a teaspoon of salt and put on fire. When the water boils, carefully put the dumplings in a saucepan, cook stirring. As soon as they come up, the fire is reduced, hold them for a minute and take out with a little noise. Serve the dish hot, with butter, vanilla sugar, sour cream, jam, etc.

Some mistresses instead of flour put 6 tablespoons of semolina. Stir such a dough with a fork and put in the fridge for half an hour, so that the mancha swells and the dough becomes thick. The dough on the manke turns out very sticky, with insufficient density it is necessary to add one or two tablespoons of flour.

Another way to diversify lazy vareniki with cottage cheese is to put some berries inside. For this, the dough is formed in the form of lozenges, put on them berries with powdered sugar or sand, tear, forming a ball.

After the vareniki are cooked, they can be transferred to a pot, add sour cream and put in the oven for a few minutes. Some people like to put yesterday's cold vareniki in a frying pan with butter and fry.

Lazy vareniki with skim cottage cheese is an indispensable dish for those who want to lose weight, because it has low calorie content. Dumplings with curd dairy cook without oil and instead of sugar put honey.