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Cottage Cheese and Carrot Cakes

Type: Mains
Servings: 8
Ready in: 1,5 hours
Calories: Middle
It is an original and interesting dish made of carrot. These cakes are served hot complemented with sour cream.

Ingredients

Carrot 1 kg
Tvorog (Cottage cheese) 200 g
Semolina 4 tbsp
Egg 2 pieces
Sugar 2 tbsp
Milk 125 ml
Breadcrumbs 4 tbsp
Dairy butter 2 tbsp
Smetana (sour cream) 125 g
Salt to taste

 

Stages of cooking

1
Wash, peel and finely grate the carrot. Heat the frying pan; braise the carrot with milk until cooked through.
2
Add the semolina, a pinch of salt and sugar. Braise everything adding milk until the semolina is ready.
3
Cool the carrot until it is warm; add eggs and stir up.
4
Rub the cottage cheese through sieve or grind it in blender. Add the cottage cheese to carrot, stir up well and shape cakes.
5
Dip the cakes in breadcrumbs and fry in dairy butter until golden.
6
Serve with sour cream.

 

 

 

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