Recipe
Homemade cottage cheese pie
A homemade crust of flour, butter and egg under a cottage-cheese filling, baked until the top is gold and the middle just set.
Homemade cottage cheese pie takes about 70 minutes and makes 8 servings. Each serving has 432 kcal.
- Preparation
- 25 minutes
- Cooking
- 45 minutes
- Total time
- 70 minutes
- Servings
- 8
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 432 kcal
- Protein
- 13.4 g
- Carbohydrates
- 38.6 g
- Fat
- 24.8 g
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour300 g
- Butter150 g
- Eggs2 pcs
- Cottage cheese500 g
- Sour cream150 g
- Sugar80 g
- Vanilla sugar8 g
- Lemon1 pc
- Salt1 pinch
Instructions
- 1
Heat the oven to 180°C.
- 2
Rub 250 g flour with cold cubed butter, a pinch of salt and 1 egg into a short dough. Press two-thirds into a 24 cm tin, including the sides. Chill the rest.
Tip: Cold butter is the point. Warm butter turns the crust into a biscuit that will not hold a wall.
- 3
Beat the cottage cheese with sour cream, the remaining egg, sugar, vanilla sugar, lemon zest and the leftover 50 g flour until no dry lumps remain.
- 4
Spread the filling in the crust. Crumble the reserved dough over the top as a thin lid - gaps are fine.
- 5
Bake 40 minutes until the lid is gold and the center only just wobbles.
Tip: A wet wobble in the very center is fine. It sets as it cools. A dry, cracked top means you went too long.
- 6
Rest 20 minutes so the slices hold. Serve warm or cold.
Cooking methods
On the stove
Dough and fillings are mixed on the board or in a pan on the lowest gas flame. The bake is a middle-rack oven. If the top browns early, tent with foil.
On induction
Warm milk or butter on level 2. Custards and sabayon on 3 with constant stirring. Bakes stay in the oven - an induction hob does not replace it.
Over an open fire
You can rise dough and cook fillings near the fire. The bake needs an oven or a Dutch oven with coals on the lid; open flame burns thin pastry and cookies.
Recipe questions
- How long does this recipe take?
- Plan for about 70 minutes from start to finish.
- How many servings does this recipe make?
- This recipe makes 8 servings.
- Can I cook this recipe on induction?
- Yes. Warm milk or butter on level 2. Custards and sabayon on 3 with constant stirring. Bakes stay in the oven - an induction hob does not replace it.
- Can I cook this recipe over an open fire?
- Yes. You can rise dough and cook fillings near the fire. The bake needs an oven or a Dutch oven with coals on the lid; open flame burns thin pastry and cookies.
- Which dietary preferences does this recipe support?
- This recipe is tagged: vegetarian.
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