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Cheesecake

I learned the recipe for this cheesecake from Ivanna Pavlovna, the grandmother of my friend Yulia. Syrnik is a traditional cottage cheese pie made in Western Ukraine (hence the name: syr - Ukr. curd). Despite the fact that the main ingredient is cottage cheese, syrnik is not like curd or cheesecake. It consists of a sandy base, cottage cheese filling, which is quite dense but still soft, and sandy crumbs on top. It's delicious warm, but even tastier the next day. For curd lovers (of which I am one), I highly recommend it.

cheesecake

Composition:

batter:

  • flour - 300 gr.
  • cream butter - 200 gr.
  • sugar (powdered sugar) - 100 gr.
  • egg yolk - 2 pieces
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stuffing:

  • cottage cheese - 1 kg
  • egg white - 8 pcs.
  • egg yolk - 6 pcs.
  • sugar - 230 gr.
  • lemon - 1 pc.
  • manna groats - 2 tbsp.
  • starch - 2 tbsp.

Cheese cake preparation:

Prepare the shortbread dough. Mix the well chilled butter, flour and sugar in a food processor until crumbly. Add the egg yolks and knead into a fairly thick dough.

flour crumble with yolks

If you're making the dough without a food processor, freeze the butter, then grate it, add the sifted flour and sugar and quickly knead with your hands until crumbly. Then add the yolks and knead the dough. Divide the finished dough into two unequal parts, cover the larger part with clingfilm and put it in the fridge and the smaller part in the freezer.

sand dough

Then prepare the filling.
For this purpose, pass cottage cheese and lemon (together with the skin) through a meat grinder. Mix the yolks with the sugar and add to the cottage cheese.

cottage cheese with sugar, yolks and lemon

Pour semolina and starch into the cottage cheese mixture and let stand for 2-3 minutes.
Meanwhile, whisk the egg whites to stiff peaks and gently mix into the cottage cheese mixture.

Add the egg whites to the cottage cheese mixture.

whipped whites

cottage cheese filling

Spread the dough from the fridge over the bottom and sides of a 28-30 cm diameter mold, pressing it firmly into the mold, and prick it with a fork to prevent it from puffing up when baking.

Send the mold with the base for the cheesecake to a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes.
Then place the curd filling in the mold, flatten and top with coarsely grated freezer dough, distributing evenly over the entire surface.

Allow the curd filling to set.

cheesecake

Bake the cheesecake for 45-60 minutes.

cheesecake

Cool the finished cheesecake, remove from the mold and slice.
Enjoy!"

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