How often do we buy cottage cheese mass for children or ourselves? For many, this is a favorite dessert, and it is simply necessary for children to eat cottage cheese in any form, and it is in the form of a delicious curd mass that they eat it best. And how often do you think that you can not buy the curd mass, but cook it yourself? Try it and see how easy it is!

We will not once again delve into stories about how useful cottage cheese is and how important it is to eat it regularly. And let’s focus better on the options for its preparation, more precisely, on a very specific option – the curd mass.

Cottage cheese masses are called finely grated cottage cheese seasoned with various additives. We note right away that the curd mass can be not only “raw”, but also heat-treated, for example, boiled, and when baked, such a mass is already called a curd casserole.

Among the most popular additives with which the curd mass is prepared are dried fruits and sugar. However, you can add almost anything you like to such masses – fresh berries or berries from jam, nuts, honey, candied fruits, chocolate, coconut flakes, etc. If you are preparing a dessert for yourself or a child, it would be quite logical to add your favorite products to the curd according to your or his individual taste. Including the curd mass may not be sweet, but salty – then various vegetables, spices, parsley, basil, cilantro and other aromatic herbs are added to it. Also, the curd mass can be prepared from fruits alone, without the addition of sweets, then its taste will be slightly sour, but pleasant.

You can cook curd mass from purchased, but even better – from homemade cottage cheese. We have already talked about how to cook cottage cheese at home.

So, there is cottage cheese, now you need to decide what you want to cook your dessert with. We offer several simple and very tasty options.

The recipe for the easiest and fastest curd mass
You will need: 100 g low-fat cottage cheese, 2 tbsp. butter, 1 tbsp. powdered sugar, vanillin.

How to quickly cook curd mass. Soften the butter, grind with powdered sugar, adding also vanillin, beat into a fluffy cream, without stopping beating in portions, add grated cottage cheese. Pour the mixture into a mold and refrigerate.

Recipe for sweet cottage cheese mass with raisins
You will need: 500 g cottage cheese, 200 g sour cream, 150 g sugar, 100 g of raisins and butter, 2 eggs, vanillin.

How to cook cottage cheese mass with raisins. Twist the cottage cheese in a meat grinder, put it in a saucepan, beat in the eggs, grind, adding butter and sour cream, until smooth. Heat the mixture, but do not bring to a boil, remove from the stove, put the pan in an ice water bath, stir until the mixture cools. Pour sugar into the mixture, add the soaked raisins and vanillin, mix, put the mixture on a dish and put it under a press so that the whey comes out.

Instead of raisins, you can add any other sweet ingredients to your taste in such a curd mass.

Recipe for salted curd mass with cumin, dill and pepper
You will need: 450 g of cottage cheese, allspice, dill, cumin, salt.

How to cook unsweetened curd mass. Rub cottage cheese, salt, add allspice, chopped dill and cumin, mix until smooth. Serve with sandwiches.

If you are preparing a curd mass with the addition of eggs, then the question arises about their safety. In this case, it is better to make not a raw, but a “boiled” version of the dessert.

Recipe for sweet boiled curd mass
You will need: 400 g of cottage cheese, 4 eggs, ½ cup of sour cream and sugar, 5 tbsp. raisins, 3 tbsp. butter, vanilla, salt.

How to cook boiled curd mass. Rub cottage cheese, add butter, sour cream, sugar and a pinch of salt, mix, beat in eggs and add raisins, mix again and put in a saucepan. With continuous stirring, heat until boiling, but do not boil the mass, but immediately remove the pan from the stove. Cool the mixture in a cold water bath while continuing to stir.

A lot of delicious dishes can be prepared from the curd mass, and one of the most relevant options for such dishes will soon be Easter curd, which is prepared for the bright Easter holiday.

Whatever you cook curd mass with, these tips will come in handy.

Secrets of cooking sweet and savory curd masses

If the cottage cheese used to prepare the curd mass is low-fat, and according to the recipe, fatty is needed, then in such a situation you can find an easy solution – add 100 g of butter for every 450 g of cottage cheese.
One of the options for standard proportions for the preparation of any sweet curd mass: for every 500 g of cottage cheese, 2-3 egg yolks and 50-70 ml of milk. First, milk and yolks are added to the curd, then all this beat with a mixer at low speed until smooth, then add additional ingredients.
To make the mass sweet, but not too high-calorie, sugar can be replaced with liquid linden honey.
It is better not to add more than 3 additives to any curd mass at the same time – one of the flavors will surely kill the others. Classic combinations for sweet mass are apples and raisins, crushed nuts and chocolate, or chocolate and wild berries; for unsweetened masses – chopped parsley and garlic, sweet purple onions and ground sweet paprika, tomato puree and allspice.
Unsweetened curd masses go well with whole grain bread and are served as an appetizer with bread, while sweet ones are often served as an independent dish or baked from them – cheesecakes, casseroles, etc.
For the curd mass, it is not at all necessary, contrary to popular belief, to use only fatty cottage cheese – low-fat below 5% fat is also suitable.
To make the consistency of the mass tender, the cottage cheese should be rubbed through a sieve or twisted in a meat grinder, it can also be beaten with a mixer or ground with a blender – as you prefer. Also, for tenderness of the sweet mass, instead of sugar, it is better to add powdered sugar. However, it is not necessary to wipe the cottage cheese if you want the mass to have a granular texture.
If the curd mass is tender and homogeneous, after cooking it must be placed under a press so that the whey leaves.