Lazy dumplings with cottage cheese and semolina and their dietary versions

Semolina is the closest relative of flour, or rather, the same wheat flour of only more coarse grinding. Associations with the word "manka", of course, are not pleasant for everyone: at once I recall the kindergarten lumpy porridge. And if earlier semolina was almost the main dish in the children's diet, today pediatricians do not favor it. It is difficult to digest, there are few useful substances in it. But semolina has been widely used in cooking. This breading is excellent, and an excellent component for the test. Manka swells well, so any dish, including lazy dumplings, becomes soft with it. It is important that this cereal is inexpensive and available everywhere.

How to choose the ingredients

• Croup. It is believed that the larger the semolina, the more tender the dumplings will be. Moreover, they will not crawl during cooking. To make lazy dumplings with cottage cheese and semolina, it is important to use high-quality cereals made from durum wheat. It is better cooked and less harmful to the figure. After purchase, grits should be poured into a plastic container and stored in a darkened cabinet. Constantly check for bugs in the container; they “love” semolina much more than children.
• Cottage cheese. For this dish, you need to choose non-acidic cottage cheese, it is desirable that it is fatter. Of course, when preparing diet lazy dumplings without flour and semolina, you can also take fat-free cottage cheese, but this will be to the detriment of taste.
  If you like to feel the texture of cottage cheese in dumplings, just mash it with a spoon when you knead the dough. You can use a grain product so popular today, it will feel even stronger. If you want the dumplings to be homogeneous, first wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve.

Lazy dumplings low-calorie recipes

This is a traditional recipe for lazy dumplings with cottage cheese and semolina, where the ratio of flour and cereals is 1: 2. Experiment: perhaps by experience you will find the best combination for yourself, changing the number of ingredients in one direction or another. A very good meal with a diet.

You will need:

• cottage cheese - 400 g;
• semolina - 200 g;
• wheat flour - 100 g;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• sugar - 100 g;
• salt to taste.

Cooking

1. Rub the cottage cheese with sugar and eggs.
2. Add semolina and salt, form a soft and sticky dough. Put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
3. Add the flour and knead the dough with your hands again. (It is not necessary to add all the indicated amount of flour. You need to see how much the “dough” will take - it should stick silently to your hands).
4. Divide the dough into several parts, from each make a sausage or tourniquet. Cut into small pieces.
5. Boil in salted boiling water. The approximate cooking time is 5 minutes after boiling again.

Serving lazy cottage cheese and semolina dumplings is best with your favorite jam. You can mix sour cream and jam in a saucepan - you will also get the original “topping”. It will be delicious if you just mix sour cream with sugar.

Dietary variations

For those who zealously monitor their figure and count calories, there are lite versions of the dish. You can cook lazy dumplings from cottage cheese without eggs, thus reducing fat content.

No eggs added

You will need:

• cottage cheese - 500 g;
• sugar - 50 g;
• wheat flour - 50 g;
• potato starch - 25 g;
• salt to taste.

Cooking

1. Mix sugar with salt and starch.
2. Pound cottage cheese with sugar.
3. Add flour and knead the dough. The more carefully you knead it, the better the result.
4. Form sausages from the dough and cut them into pieces.
5. Boil with the addition of salt.

Without flour and semolina

You need to understand that cooking lazy dumplings without flour will not work. Something should bind cottage cheese with the rest of the ingredients. Therefore, in this recipe, wheat flour is not used, but it is replaced by oatmeal. Calories in these two types of flour are approximately equal, but oatmeal is much more healthy. It contains a large number of micro and macro elements, fiber and vitamins. So such dumplings can safely be called dietary.

You will need:

• cottage cheese - 400 g;
• oat flakes - 180 g;
• eggs - 2 pieces;
• sugar - 100 g.

Cooking

1. Grind oatmeal in a blender or in a coffee grinder until flour. If you have prepared oatmeal, use it.
2. Rub the cottage cheese with eggs and sugar.
3. Knead the dough by thoroughly mixing the sugar-curd mixture with oatmeal.
4. Form dumplings by slicing dough bundles.
5. Boil in a large amount of salted water for about 4 minutes after floating.

How to serve diet lazy dumplings? Light yogurt is great. Very useful "companions" for such a dish will be nuts and pieces of fresh or canned fruit.

By the way, the calorie content of lazy dumplings with cottage cheese, even classic ones, is not so high - a little more than 200 kcal per 100 grams. In this case, the dish contains a large amount of carbohydrates. This, again, speaks in favor of eating a meal for breakfast - there is definitely enough energy and strength before lunch.

The recipe for lazy dumplings with semolina permits freezing. Before cooking, you do not need to defrost dumplings - just throw them in boiling water and wait until they reach readiness.

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