Baked Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Semolina

Prepare all the necessary ingredients for cottage cheese pancakes in the oven with semolina. Take cottage cheese with a fat content of 5-9%, you can use loose cottage cheese or cottage cheese in bricks. The dairy product should be fresh, crumbly, made from natural ingredients. It is better not to use cottage cheese that contains vegetable fats. For this portion of ingredients, it is better to use a small egg, grade 1 or 2. You can also add only egg whites to the cottage cheese mixture, without using the yolk. You can use wheat flour, high-grade or rice flour. Part of the flour is necessary for the cottage cheese dough, and the other half is for shaping the pancakes. Sugar is needed in a small amount for this recipe, but the portion can be increased. You can also add raisins or poppy seeds to the dough for flavor.

Transfer the cottage cheese to a deep bowl, add one small chicken egg or one egg white. Mix the mass vigorously with a fork.

Add sugar to the mass. You can use white sugar or cane sugar. If you want to reduce the amount of calories in this recipe, you can replace the sugar with a natural sweetener, such as stevia.

Pour semolina and vanilla into the cottage cheese mass. You can use vanilla sugar or a small amount of liquid vanilla. Stir the cottage cheese mass with a fork until it becomes uniform.

Add 2.5 tablespoons of flour to the cottage cheese mass. Mix everything until the mass forms into a lump. It should be homogeneous and sticky. The remaining flour is needed for shaping the syrniki and will be used later.

Leave the cottage cheese dough for 10-15 minutes to allow the semolina to swell and the dough to form well into syrniki.

Sprinkle the surface or a cutting board with the remaining flour. Place a tablespoon of cottage cheese dough on the flour. Coat the cottage cheese ball in flour and shape it into a syrnik.

To form a smooth and beautiful syrniki, you can do it by hand or using a glass. To do this, roll the curd dough in flour and make a small cake out of it. Cover the curd cake with a glass and rotate the glass intensively in a circle. The glass will form a beautiful and even syrniki, about 2-2.5cm in height.

Carefully transfer each syrniki to a baking dish. This portion of curd with semolina yields 7 large syrniki, approximately 90 grams each. It is better to use a baking dish with a thick bottom or line the bottom with baking paper. It is better to use silicone-coated paper to prevent the syrniki from sticking.

Bake the syrniki in a preheated oven to 170 degrees Celsius for 10-13 minutes on the lower rack. It is better to set the oven to the lower rack mode, if available. Remove the syrniki from the oven when one side turns golden brown.

Flip the syrniki and place them in the oven to bake the other side for about 10 more minutes. However, the baking time may vary depending on the oven's power and the thickness of the baking dish's bottom.

Place the beautiful, golden and very tender syrniki on a plate. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top for decoration. Making syrniki from curd with semolina in the oven is very easy, and the result is excellent. Give it a try. You will definitely like this recipe. Enjoy your meal.