Cottage cheese casserole with tangerines in a slow cooker. Cottage cheese casserole with tangerines
There is no semolina or flour in this cottage cheese casserole recipe. And even a little oatmeal was added, just enough to slightly thicken and compact the curd mass. Ready-made cottage cheese casserole with tangerines, the recipe with a photo of which I offer, will turn out to be very tender, with a pleasant taste of baked cottage cheese, oatmeal is not felt at all in it. And the fruits will just be very noticeable. Depending on the season, you can cook the casserole in different ways, adding apples, peaches, apricots, pears, oranges, tangerines and much more. The main thing is that the fruits are not very juicy, and you need to add them in moderation. This recipe for cottage cheese casserole uses tangerines as a fruit additive. It is not worth cleaning the slices from the film, it does not interfere at all and, in addition, prevents the juice from flowing out of the tangerine slices.
If you have someone who doesn’t really like cottage cheese even in the form of a casserole and you need to muffle its taste, add more cereal, not two spoons, but four. Or put a couple of spoons of fruit puree and a little semolina to thicken the curd mass. By the way, let me remind you that last time we cooked.
Ingredients:
- homemade cottage cheese - 200 gr;
- egg - 1 pc;
- oatmeal - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- milk - a third of a glass;
- sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons (to taste);
- tangerines - 2 pcs (or one apple, pear, orange);
- syrup from fruit jam, chocolate - for serving.
How to cook with a photo step by step
Warm the milk a little so that the flakes swell faster. Pour two tablespoons of cereal into a bowl (we collect with a slide), ordinary, not instant. Pour in warm milk, mix and let stand for 10 minutes, until softened. Turn on the oven. While you are preparing the base for the casserole, it should have time to warm up to 180 degrees. 
Homemade cottage cheese is used to prepare the casserole. It does not taste sour at all, the consistency is layered, squeezed out of whey. The proportions of sugar and cereal are given for such curds. For a product of a different consistency, it will be necessary to adjust the amount of flakes: for a dry granular, one heaped spoon is enough, for a wet pasty it is better to put three spoons. 
Add sugar. Again, adjust the quantity to your taste (according to the recipe, the casserole will be sweetish, but not cloying). 
Grind cottage cheese with sugar, beat in one egg. Once again, mix everything until smooth. 
After mixing, you should get a viscous curd mass, almost homogeneous (not counting small lumps of curd). 
Now you need to add the soaked cereal along with the milk if the oatmeal has not completely absorbed it. Put the flakes to the cottage cheese, mix. After adding flakes, the curd mass will become thicker, denser. If it seems to you that it is still liquid, then put a spoonful of semolina. 
Grease a low mold with oil. Spread about half of the cottage cheese with oatmeal. Smooth out. Peel the tangerines from the peel, divide into slices. Peel off all white streaks (zest residue). Do not remove the film that covers the pulp. It will not interfere, it will not affect the taste, and you will save time. Spread the slices lightly pressing them into the curd. 
Close the tangerines with curd mass. Make the top even and be sure to leave room for the casserole to rise. Keep in mind that the consistency of the curd is quite liquid, it is not dense, and if you fill the form flush with the sides, then the curd mass will simply flow out when you lift it. 
Put the casserole on the middle level of a well-heated oven. Cook until the top seals. 20-25 minutes for a low form will be enough. If the form is high, then increase the time to 35-40 minutes. Be guided by the consistency, at the finished casserole it will become dense, a golden crust will appear on top. 
Cottage cheese casserole with oatmeal and tangerines is ready. Allow to cool without removing from the mold. It will shrink as it cools - this is normal. Then grease the top with syrup from fruit jam, cut into portions and serve. Bon appetit! 
Author Elena Litvinenko (Sangina)
Can be cooked for dinner
Tangerine curd - very tasty!
I wanted something tasty for tea, there was cottage cheese and tangerines at home. And I decided to bake a tangerine cottage cheese dessert (which can rightly be called both a casserole and a cottage cheese cake).
The dessert was tender. It is especially pleasant to bite into tangerine slices, which unexpectedly come across in a curd soufflé. Preparing a casserole with tangerines is very simple, and disappears from the table - very quickly!
What to make a cottage cheese casserole with tangerines
for 8 servings
Cottage cheese (preferably fatty, 9%) - 350 g;
Sugar - 3 tablespoons;
Vanilla sugar - 1 teaspoon;
Moth - a small pinch;
Semolina (semolina) - 3 tablespoons;
Sour cream - 3 tablespoons;
Eggs - 3 pieces;
Tangerines - 3-4 pieces;
A piece of butter for greasing the baking dish (mould diameter 22-24 cm)
How to bake cottage cheese casserole with fruit
Beat eggs with sugar (plain and vanilla) and salt until the crystals dissolve.
Combine sour cream, semolina and cottage cheese. Mix well and carefully fold in the beaten eggs.
Grease the baking dish butter and put half of the curd mass into it. Then - lay out the slices of tangerines and cover them with the remaining cottage cheese.
Place the form with tangerine casserole on the middle shelf of the oven, heated to 180 degrees C. As soon as an intense cottage cheese smell appears, and our cottage cheese pastries are browned, it's ready!
Remove the finished casserole from the oven, let stand for 20-30 minutes to cool. Then remove from the mold and serve!
Ready-made casserole of cottage cheese and tangerines!
Features of cooking casseroles with tangerines and taste
Is it possible to replace cottage cheese with curd mass
Of course you can. Then you should not add sour cream and sugar to the casserole dough, because the curd mass is already quite fatty and sweet.
I baked this cottage cheese pie with fresh Abkhazian tangerines
How to replace tangerines in the filling
If there are no tangerines, you can add thin slices of apples or bananas to the curd dough (then they should be sprinkled with lemon juice so that they do not darken), pieces of peaches or apricots, cherries or grated carrots.
Piece of cottage cheese pie with tangerines
If you have canned fruits, then pineapples (pieces) and peaches are suitable (you can put them in halves straight).
Raisins, prunes and dried apricots are traditionally good in cottage cheese casserole.
Of course, you can do without the filling, but it is more fun with it.
Form for baking casseroles
To prepare a cottage cheese casserole, you can use any form: porcelain (ceramic), metal or silicone (I had just one).
In silicone molds, baked goods are usually cooked upside down. Therefore, in order to take it out, you must first attach one plate to our pie and tip the curd on it. And then tip it over again on another plate to bring it into the correct position.
If you bake a cottage cheese pie immediately in the correct position, then you can pour sour cream on top of it, from which a delicious creamy crust will harden.
I have not tried to cook a casserole in a glass form, but, probably, it is possible in it. True, I'm not sure that it is convenient to take out the finished curd cheese from the glass. However, if pastries are served at the home table, then there will be nothing wrong if you put the cake in a glass form on the table and cut it right in it.
Juicy tangerine slice in cottage cheese captivity)))
Any cottage cheese casserole is familiar from childhood and easy to prepare delicious food that can be made on hastily from improvised products!
A delicious cottage cheese casserole is good as a dessert for tea for every day, and for a festive table!
Enjoy your meal!
Calories: 706.09
Proteins/100g: 55.63
Carbs/100g: 102.51
Fruits and berries, raisins, dried apricots and prunes, oatmeal and various cereals, pasta are added to cottage cheese casseroles, and even unsweetened casseroles or with salted cottage cheese are prepared. There are so many recipes and options that it seems to be impossible to come up with anything unusual. But no, it turns out that the cottage cheese casserole can be “winter”, with tangerines. Why "winter"? Because tangerines appear on sale closer to winter, and New Year's holidays are generally unthinkable without them. So it turns out that winter is the time to cook various desserts with tangerines, pastries, and at the same time try the cottage cheese casserole with tangerines.
Cooking cottage cheese casseroles with tangerines is no different from ordinary cottage cheese casseroles. The most difficult thing here is to clean the tangerine slices from the transparent film, otherwise there may be a slight bitterness in the finished dish, which the zest will give.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese (preferably homemade) - 250 gr;
- tangerines - 2-3 pieces;
- semolina - 1-1.5 tbsp. l;
- sugar - 2-3 tbsp. l (to taste);
- egg - 1 pc;
- oatmeal - 3 tbsp. l;
- milk - 50 ml;
- butter - for greasing the mold.
For the top of the casserole:
- 1 egg yolk + 1 tbsp. l. milk.
How to cook at home
Mix in a small bowl semolina and oatmeal. Oatmeal can be taken as instant, and ordinary oatmeal such as "Hercules". The amount of semolina depends on the moisture content of the cottage cheese - the more whey in the cottage cheese, the more semolina should be put. If the cottage cheese is dry or well squeezed, semolina will need 1 tbsp. l.
Warm milk to warmer than room temperature. Pour semolina with oatmeal and leave for 10-15 minutes to swell.
Beat egg and sugar until smooth.
Mash the cottage cheese with a crush or wipe through a sieve (if you like delicate, homogeneous casseroles). Soft cottage cheese can be immediately mixed with a beaten egg and sugar.
Add softened oatmeal to the curd mass along with milk and semolina. To stir thoroughly.
Divide tangerines into slices. Carefully free the slices from the whitish film.
It is more convenient to make cottage cheese casserole with tangerines in small portion molds. Lubricate the bottom and walls of the molds with butter, fill with curd mass a little more than half of the mold. Spread the tangerine slices slightly pressing into the curd mass.
Put the remaining curd mass on top, level it so that the tangerine slices are completely covered.
Place the forms with cottage cheese casserole with tangerines in the oven (preheat to a temperature of 200 degrees) and bake for 15 minutes. Get the molds, grease the surface with egg yolk mixed with 1 tbsp. l. milk. Return to oven and continue to bake for another 15-20 minutes until browned on top. Cottage cheese casserole can be served hot, immediately after cooking. Or let it cool down a bit before taking it out of the molds. Served cottage cheese casserole with tangerines sprinkled with powdered sugar or sour cream. 