Puff pastry with cottage cheese calorie content

There is already less than a month left until the New Year. We need to start preparing! It's time to choose delicious and low-calorie dishes for the holiday table. For example, cottage cheese cookies with figs.

We will need:

• Soft cottage cheese (preferably low-fat) - 200g;
• Premium wheat flour - 1 cup (120g) + 2-3 tablespoons for sprinkling;
• Sugar - to taste (you don’t have to add it at all);
• Powdered sugar - for decoration (optional);
• Film - food grade;
• Parchment - for baking.

For filling:

• Dried figs - 250g;
• Honey - 2-3 tablespoons (30-40g);
• Lemon zest - 1 tablespoon;
• Lemon juice - halves;
• Cinnamon - 1/2 teaspoon.

Recipe:

1. Let's make the filling. The filling can also be made from other dried fruits. Wash the figs well and cut off the tough tails. Place figs, honey, cinnamon, lemon zest and juice in a blender and grind to a paste. The filling is ready!
2. Prepare the dough. Take soft cottage cheese and put it in a bowl. If you have dry cottage cheese, you can add a couple of tablespoons of yogurt or low-fat sour cream and beat in a blender. Add sugar as desired. Add flour little by little (it is better to sift it through a sieve). Knead the dough (you may need a little more or a little less flour. It all depends on the cottage cheese).
3. Divide the dough into 2 parts. Roll out each part into a rectangle (mine is approximately 30x20 cm) 1-2 mm thick (you need to roll it out VERY THIN!). Rolling out the dough is not difficult, the main thing is to sprinkle it well with flour on one and the other side. It is also better to sprinkle the rolling pin itself with flour.
4. Place half of the filling on the rolled out dough, not reaching 0.5 cm from the edges. Wrap it in a roll. If the dough sticks to the table, then help with a silicone stirrer (it’s okay if it breaks, carefully glue it together). Wrap the roll in film and put it in the freezer for 15-20 (no less) minutes.
5. During this time, we do the same with another piece of dough. Then line the baking sheet with parchment. Preheat the oven to 200 C degrees.
6. We take the rolls out of the freezer and cut them into 1 cm thick slices. Place them on a baking sheet. You can place the cookies at a short distance from each other, as the cookies will not increase in size.
7. Bake for 20-25 minutes (no more, otherwise it will be hard) until light golden brown.
8. It is best to cool these cookies on a wire rack.
9. *One cookie weighs 20g – that’s 46 kcal

Calorie content and nutritional value per 100 g:

• Energy value - 230.1 kcal;
• Proteins - 7 g;
• Fats - 2 g;
• Carbohydrates - 45 g.

Bon appetit!

Incredibly tasty, puff pastry that simply melts in your mouth. It is prepared very easily and simply from a minimum set of ingredients. Everyone likes it without exception!!!

Recipe for making cottage cheese puff pastry

• Mash the cottage cheese with a fork with vanilla and softened margarine (if desired, you can replace it with butter).
• Add flour with baking powder. I advise you not to add all the flour at once, but 400 grams, and add the rest as needed. Its exact amount depends on the moisture content and fat content of the cottage cheese. The dough should be soft but not sticky. Place the finished dough in the refrigerator for at least half an hour. I had it there for about an hour.
• Roll out the chilled dough to about half a centimeter thick (do not roll it thin - there will be no puff effect). For convenience, lightly dust the working surface and the dough itself with flour. Cut out cookies of any shape and size.
• Pour sugar into a saucer. Dip one side of the finished cookies into sugar and press a little so that it sticks. Place the sugar-coated cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
• Bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees until light golden brown. This will take 15-20 minutes - use your oven as a guide!
• Let the cookies cool slightly. Warm cookies are absolutely beyond praise!

Cottage cheese is an almost ideal ingredient in cookie dough. This fermented milk product loosens the structure of the batch, while simultaneously enriching baked goods with protein and calcium. Depending on the recipe, cookies may turn out to be more or less high in calories, including ones that are suitable for a weight loss menu.

Let's look at recipes with photos of delicious homemade cottage cheese cookies, which can decorate and diversify the dietary table, as well as variations of its recipes.

Cottage cheese cookies in the oven step by step - simple recipes with photos

A long-standing and strong tradition in the production of cottage cheese cookies is the inclusion of sugar in abundant quantities.
The result is an extremely rich pastry, 100 g of which contains more than 300 kilocalories. If sugar is used sparingly or abandoned altogether, and butter is completely excluded from the recipe, the high calorie content of cookies can be reduced to medium or even low. Let us confirm this with specific examples. Quick cottage cheese cookies with medium calorie content « Economy class

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Ingredients:

Preparation:

• Add milk, sugar, salt, vanillin to the cottage cheese, pureed through a sieve, and mix well.
• Pour vegetable oil into the mixture and mix again.
• Sift the flour into the resulting mass, kneading the dough, and add baking soda to the last portion of flour.
• Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5-0.8 cm, cut out small circles, arrange in rows on a baking sheet and bake for no longer than 20 minutes in an oven heated to 180-200ºC. Thanks to the vegetable oil in the mix, these cookies never burn.
• The finished baked goods can be decorated with coconut flakes, confectionery sprinkles or painted with colored icing.

Calorie content

of such dessert
does not exceed 200 units
per 100 grams.

Dietary low-calorie cottage cheese and oatmeal cookies “The Joy of Losing Weight”

Ingredients:

It is convenient to prepare the dough using a blender.

Preparation:

• Rinse and soak raisins in hot water.
• Grind oatmeal.
• Place cottage cheese in a container of sufficient size, add peeled bananas cut into circles and chopped oatmeal, mix well with a blender.
• Add soaked raisins, mix, let the finished dough stand for 20-25 minutes.
• Cover a baking tray with baking paper and place oval cookies on it, which can be easily shaped with hands moistened with cold water. The distance between them should be approximately 2 cm.
• Send the filled baking sheet to the oven, heated to 180ºC and bake the delicacy for 35 minutes, until it becomes golden brown, but at the same time soft.

By eliminating flour, butter and sugar, calories

100 grams of such curd cookies
does not exceed 100 units
.

Curd cookies in diets

Subject to a general caloric restriction, cookies with cottage cheese are suitable for dietary diets: they are rich in highly digestible “milk” proteins, which provide muscle nutrition
, as well as natural calcium complexes, which
strengthen the skeletal system and dental tissue, and improve the condition of hair, nails and skin.
Curd cookies are allowed even in such a strict diet as high-protein, low-carbohydrate. In this case, wheat flour and butter are absolutely excluded, and instead of sugar, its approved substitutes are used.

Additional "players" in the starting lineup

Cookies based on curd dough go well with a variety of additional ingredients. These include:

• Vegetables. By adding finely grated or to the cottage cheese, you get multi-colored red-orange and also fortified baked goods, enriched with plant fiber. In fresh and salted versions of cookies, small pieces of pepper, and, as well as chopped spicy herbs are mixed into the dough.
• Fruits and berries, fresh, frozen, prepared for future use - pieces, zest and juice of citrus fruits, a variety of berries, forest and garden.
• Candied fruits, preferably without bright dyes, like dried fruits, allow you to reduce the amount of sugar in the recipe or completely abandon it.
• Dairy - , . Only low-fat varieties are appropriate in the diet.
• Dried fruits - in addition to raisins, these are cut into pieces, kumquat, dried cherries.
• Bran. A useful component for diets focused on weight loss.
• Chicken, both whole and whites/yolks separately.
• Starch, potato and corn.
• and, grated and in pieces - black varieties are healthier for diets.
• Honey is a natural, flavorful sweetener that is much healthier than sugar.
• Spices and herbs – vanilla,

There are many types and recipes for making cookies; they can be fragrant and rich, hard and dry, sweet or salty, but almost always they remain forbidden. Forbidden for those who watch their figure, because any cookie is a high-calorie product. Or not, and there are cookies that you can eat even while on a diet? In this article we will look at the calorie content of different types of cookies, and at the same time we will figure out what kind of baked goods you can treat yourself to without worrying about your slimness.

Curd cookies: the perfect recipe

How to make cottage cheese cookies:

Cut the butter into pieces and put it in the oven or microwave until it becomes soft.

I don’t have a microwave, so I put the butter in the oven for 20 minutes at 40 degrees.

We choose cottage cheese for cookies of medium fat content, but not too dry.

Next comes the fun part: grind the butter and cottage cheese using a blender. Can be used as an immersion blender or with a bowl.

If you mix the cottage cheese and butter with just a spoon, then the finished cookies will contain grains of cottage cheese on the cookie crust. Which will become hard during the baking process and will greatly spoil the taste of the cookies. Ideally, you can use cheese mass for this recipe. But I have natural cottage cheese from the market, so I need a blender.

Add flour and baking powder to the creamy curd mass. It is best to add flour in small portions; you may need a little more or less flour from the amount indicated in the recipe.

Knead the dough, divide it into two parts and put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

We do this so that the oil in the dough cools, the dough becomes elastic and easy to work with.

We take the dough out of the refrigerator and roll out one ball into a thin layer no more than 3 mm thick. It turns out quite thin, but we will fold it in 4 layers, so the thickness is quite normal.

Using a glass or cup, cut out pieces from the dough. I used a cup with a diameter of 9 cm. A glass with a smaller diameter did not work: the cookies turned out too small.

Thanks to this method, the cookies will turn out with beautiful, even edges and the same thickness.

Pour sugar into a plate (I used a little cane sugar for greater clarity, because white sugar blends in color with the dough). Dip each circle in sugar on one side.

Then fold the circle in half, sugar side inward.

Dip only one side of the half circle into sugar again.

Fold the sugar inside again, dip it again in sugar on one side only, and lightly press the curd cookies with your fingers so that they do not “open” during baking.

Place our cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, sugar-free side down.

Regarding the sugar: due to this layering, the cookies seemed too sweet to me. Therefore, you can make the sprinkles at the “semi-circle” stage. For the child, I sprinkled the cookies only on top, and this did not affect the quality of the cookies themselves. In the end, we make homemade cookies and decide how much sugar we put in.

It should be noted that when the baking sheet is completely filled with cookies, do not rush to fill the second one. If cottage cheese cookies sprinkled with sugar stand for a long time at room temperature, the butter will begin to melt, followed by sugar. In the oven, such cookies will “float”, sugar will flow onto the baking sheet in the form of caramel, and as a result the cookies will turn out tasteless.

Therefore, we put the remaining dough in the refrigerator. And we will continue making cookies when the first batch of cottage cheese cookies is on the way.

In the case of cottage cheese cookies, it is very important to maintain the oven temperature. Since we are dealing with one of the types of puff pastry (yes, yes, please don’t be alarmed), you need to bake cookies at a temperature of at least 210 degrees. At this “shock temperature”, the moisture from the cookies will quickly evaporate, the layers will rise, the dough will bake evenly, and the cookies will turn out with a crispy crust and a soft layered structure inside.

If you make the temperature lower, for example 180 degrees, the moisture from the dough will not have time to evaporate, and you will get cookies with a crispy crust - raw inside.

Oven temperature instructions have been received and it's time to send our cookies off to bake. Preheat the oven to 210 degrees. Turn on the top and bottom heat at the same time. Bake the cottage cheese cookies until golden brown for 10-15 minutes.

While the cookies are in the oven, they will rise greatly, but at the final stage of cooking they will become almost the same as when raw. This is normal and does not mean that you did anything wrong.

Take the finished cookies out of the oven, wait for them to cool completely, and eat them!

I recommend preparing: Curd manna with peaches

That's all! The cottage cheese cookies are ready! Enjoy your meal!

Chemical composition of cookies

What components are included in the mixture for making cookies, and what substances does it consist of, which is tasty, but not the healthiest product? It is impossible to fit all existing cookie recipes into one article, because there are simply too many to count. Almost every country has its own traditional varieties of cookies, the recipe of which is customized by the owner or manufacturer. And while additional ingredients may vary depending on the recipe, the main components remain the same - flour, eggs, oil (vegetable or butter), sugar and salt. Depending on the recipe and type of cookies, honey, sour cream, dried fruits, nuts, cottage cheese, cocoa, and chocolate can be added. These products themselves are high in calories; it is not surprising that, when “combined” together, they turn into not the most dietary product.

The calorie content of cookies is also affected by the type of flour used to prepare the delicacy. The most high-calorie cookies are made from wheat flour, and instead of it or in combination with it, rye, corn, oatmeal, or wholemeal flour can be used. To reduce calories, sugar is sometimes replaced with honey or fructose.

Cookies have a high calorie content per 100 grams, but at the same time contain many useful substances. It is rich in B vitamins, vitamins A and E, contains calcium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron. Oatmeal cookies also contain a lot of fiber, so some of its varieties can be eaten even on a diet, of course, in moderation.

An approximate BJU of cookies looks like this:

• Proteins - 7.5 g
• Fat - 11.8 g
• Carbohydrates - 74 g

The nutritional value of the product, as well as the calorie content, changes in accordance with the cooking recipe.

Making cottage cheese cookies

1. So, before baking the cottage cheese cookies, cut the butter at room temperature into cubes.
   Warm the butter to room temperature, then cut it into cubes
2. Add cottage cheese to the butter.
   It is advisable that it be soft, so it will mix more easily with the oil. Add cottage cheese to butter
3. Beat butter and cottage cheese until smooth.
   Beat the butter and cottage cheese with a mixer or blender until smooth.
4. Add flour and baking powder.
   Mix. Add wheat flour and baking powder to the resulting curd-butter mass.
5. The result is soft and tender dough.
   The dough for our cottage cheese cookies should be soft and tender.
6. Sprinkle a little flour onto a board or other work surface.
   Sprinkle flour on your work surface and you can draw something there, like we did