Syrniki With Potato Food

SYRNIKI

Steps:

• Serve immediately with your favorite syrup, fruit or whipped cream.

RUSSIAN SYRNIKI

Steps:

• Mix together the cottage cheese, eggs, and sugar. Stir in semolina and all-purpose flour, and work into a soft dough. Turn the dough onto a floured surface, and roll into a 1-inch thick log. Slice the log into 8 pieces, then pat each piece in additional flour to form a patty.
• Heat the oil over medium heat until hot. Fry the syrniki in hot oil until golden brown on each side, 3 to 4 minutes per side.

SYRNIKI

Steps:

• If the cottage cheese is too wet, drain it for at least 2 hours in cheesecloth.
• Before removing it from the cheesecloth, squeeze it well to get rid of its water.
• Place the cottage cheese in a large bowl, and mash it vigorously using a potato masher to rid it of any lumps.
• Add the flour, baking powder, egg yolks, sugar and salt.
• Mix well.
• The dough should be very smooth and should not stick to the hands. If necessary, for example, if the cottage cheese is too oily or too wet, add a little sifted flour.
• Sprinkle the work surface with 3 tablespoons of flour.
• Give the dough the shape of a large sausage with a diameter of about 2 inches (5 cm).
• Cut slices about 1 cm (½ inch) thick.
• Add the two remaining tablespoons of flour on the work surface.
• Pass each slice thus obtained in the flour.
• Heat the butter or oil in a pan over medium heat.
• Fry the syrniki for 4 to 5 minutes per side.
• Serve with smetana, jam, and berries (example: blackcurrant, raspberries, blackberries, and/or cranberries).

SYRNIKI WITH POTATO

Steps:

• First clean and peel the potatoes and boil in salted water, drain and mash.
• Then drain the cottage cheese, sieve to remove lumps, and mix it with the mashed potato.
• Beat in raw egg, salt, sugar and half the flour. (For the sweeter version add raisins and more sugar now.)
• Stir well to form a stiff paste.
• Work on a floured surface and flatten into thick pancakes about 3 inches in diameter.
• Coat them with flour and fry in butter on each side until golden brown.
• Serve hot with sour cream well chilled.

SIRNIKI (RUSSIAN CHEESE PANCAKES)

Steps:

• In a food processor, pulse the farmer�s cheese until it is uniformly crumpled. Add the eggs, sugar, salt, and ½ cup of flour. Pulse or mix to combine. Refrigerate 1 hour, or even overnight. The dough will remain thick but sticky.
• Put approximately 1/3 cup of flour into a bowl, and use this to prevent the dough from sticking to your hands. Using 2 teaspoons, drop 1½ï¿½ balls of dough into the flour, roll them round, and flatten to about 3/8� thick. Place them on a plate in a single layer until all the patties are all formed.
• Heat a frying pan with 1 T. butter, and fry the patties on each side until golden. You will need to add more butter as you go.
• Serve hot with sour cream and/or jam. This recipe will make approximately 20 small patties.
• NOTE: Farmer Cheese is usually found near the cream cheese; my store sells Friendship brand. These days, the packages are just under 1/2 pound (don't you hate this incremental downsizing?), and 2 packages will work fine.
• About the Times, Prep time is mostly frying time, and Passive time is the chilling time.