Puff pastry with cottage cheese: a step-by-step recipe on how to make it

Puff pastry with cottage cheese made from yeast-free puff pastry They perfectly complement the flavor of coffee, black, or green tea. Today, we'll tell you how to quickly prepare this delicious treat at home and offer a simple step-by-step recipe for cottage cheese puff pastry in a beautiful envelope format with detailed photos of each preparation step.

Nutritional value per serving

278.7 kcal

Proteins: 8.5 g
Fats: 15.0 g
Carbohydrates: 26.4 g

*Nutritional value is calculated per 100g of ingredients

Total time: 40 min
Time in the kitchen: 15 min
Complexity:

A simple recipe.
Number of servings: 7

Puff pastry was accidentally invented by a budding French baker in 1645, and since then, delicious, golden-brown sweet pastries have been one of the most popular types of baked goods.

We have already cooked with puff pastry. classic croissants with apples, pies with apple filling And puff pastry tubes with cream, and today we'll learn how to make beautiful and equally delicious curd puff pastries, which are also called "Hungarian cheesecakes."

Interesting fact! Unlike the classic vatrushka, which is always made with yeast dough, the "Hungarian" is traditionally baked with puff pastry, tied in a knot.

If you have the time and inclination, you can make proper puff pastry at home using the simple recipe in this video as a basis:

If you have guests "out of town" and don't have time to knead the dough, it's easier and quicker to make fluffy puff pastries with cottage cheese using ready-made puff pastry, which can be purchased inexpensively in almost any supermarket these days.

Important! If you plan to bake cottage cheese puff pastries, like we did, using ready-made frozen puff pastry, be sure to defrost it properly. Do not microwave or speed up the process by heating it.

The best way to defrost puff pastry is naturally, by simply removing the sheets from the freezer and letting them sit on a lightly floured board for 30 minutes.

Step-by-step recipe for puff pastry with cottage cheese

Cheese Puff Pastries – A Simple Step-by-Step Recipe

Ingredients

Servings

Puff pastry

500 G
Flour

2 tbsp
Sugar

2 tbsp
Egg C1

2 pcs
Milk

10 ml
Vanilla sugar

10 G
Salt

1 pinch

Preparation

Step 1

Step 1 – prepare the filling.

The main ingredient is cottage cheese, so to ensure the filling is delicious, choose a high-quality, exceptionally fresh product.

You can use either the simplest classic cottage cheese or sweet cottage cheese with raisins, dried apricots, or other additives. It will also turn out delicious.

Step 2

Add one egg (white and yolk), 2 tablespoons of regular sugar, a packet of vanilla sugar (can be replaced with vanilla extract or vanillin), and a pinch of salt to the cottage cheese. Mix everything thoroughly with a fork until a soft, smooth mixture is achieved.

Step 3

You should get a soft curd mass like this (as in the photo).

Note that the mixture should not run. If your cheese is initially too soft, add only the egg yolk.

Step 4

Step 2 – forming layers.

Place the well-defrosted dough on a floured mat and remove the film.

Step 5

Cut the sheet of prepared dough into 10 squares of approximately equal size.

Your squares may turn out slightly smaller than in the photo, but that's okay. You can either use a little less filling or roll the square out a bit to get the desired size.

Step 6

Place a tablespoon of filling in the center of the square.

Step 7

We connect two opposite corners of the dough over the cottage cheese, pressing the ends lightly so that they stick together.

Step 8

We connect the other two corners in the same way, pinching the edges of the dough well to securely fix them.

Repeat steps 6-8 for each subsequent square of dough.

Step 9

Place the puff pastries on a baking sheet lined with parchment, silicone paper or a special heat-resistant mat.

Step 10

Beat one egg yolk and 10 milliliters of milk with a fork until smooth.

Step 11

Step 3 – bake the puff pastries.

Brush each envelope with the egg mixture. This will give the pastry a beautiful golden brown crust.

At this stage, you can also sprinkle the pies with sesame seeds; this ingredient will give your puff pastries a special piquancy.

Bake puff pastry with cottage cheese in an oven preheated to 180℃ approximately 20-25 minutes.

The baking mode assumes the oven operates with top and bottom heat, without convection. If you're using a different mode, adjust the cooking time accordingly.

Step 12

Remove the finished cheese puff pastries from the oven and sprinkle generously with powdered sugar.

If you previously sprinkled the baked goods with sesame seeds, then there is no need to sprinkle them with powdered sugar; they will be sweet enough as is.

This is how beautiful and appetizing puff pastry with cottage cheese can look, sprinkled not with powdered sugar, but with sesame seeds (you can use white or black).