In Russia we name them “syrniki” which means cheesy pancakes, but the main ingredient – cottage cheese Russians calls “tvorog” which is not a cheese actually. We eat “tvorog” with sour cream or jam on breakfast, it is very healthy and tasty. You can find a million of cottage cheese pancakes recipe with different ingredients but my recipe is the simplest I have ever seen! Russians cook these pancakes as quick breakfast. This recipe as simple as 1-2-3! Just try to make pancakes by yourself and you’ll not be disappointed!
cottage cheese pancakes
The ingredients we need for cottage cheese pancakes recipe:
400 gram cottage cheese
2-3 eggs
4 tablespoon sugar
pinch of salt
3-4 tablespoon flour
You can find cottage cheese in ANY Russian markets in milk section, it’s very popular as kefir, sour cream etc. We buy the cottage cheese packed in 200-250 gram packs. It is soft, defatted and a bit salty.
cottage cheese
To turn this cottage cheese into light and tasty pancakes we need to add 3 eggs, 4 tablespoon sugar (or by taste), pinch of salt and mix all ingredients, to do this I always use my own tools – hands! It takes 1-2 minutes and the pastry is ready 🙂 I also recommend you to add a bit flour if the pastry looks wet but it always depends on cottage cheese. Mine was very soft so I did not add any flour into the pastry.
Dust the table with 3-4 tablespoon flour, take the pastry and shape into pancakes as shown in the pictures below.
making pancake is easy
pancakes
Heat the frying pan on a medium heat, add 1-2 tablespoon oil and brown pancakes on each side
frying 2-3 minutes each side
almost ready
serve with a sour cream or jam
Well, as you can see my cottage cheese pancakes recipe is simple and easy to make but the taste of pancakes is gorgeous!
p.s. American recipes are my new passion! I invite you to share it with me. I’ve just joined Secret Recipe Forum and bought a really interesting and useful resource – Cook book collection with Restaurants recipes, it’s called America’s Secret Recipes. If you like and enjoy food like i do – you should give it a try. Really nice community to be with!
Hi!
By way of my appreciation, I came here again.
I just recently posted on your other post about the commentluv, keywordluv and top commentator plug-in topic and here to make my day, I need to eat.
I want to try the one you portrayed here. It is amazing you happen to post foods also and I am a trying hard cook. LOL, I just want to impress my husband, and maybe try this on our kitchen. Really happy to oblige.
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Sounds delicious. Makes me think of crepes filled with fruit and sour cream. It is just a bonus that this doesn’t sound like too difficult of a recipe to do, either.
Would you recommend using dry or wet cottage cheese? I want to try these out, but I don’t want to end up with soggy pancakes – any help would be appreciated.
This is a good breakfast recipe. I will surely try this one.
I’d love to make this recipe, but I’m trying to cut back on my sugar intake! Any chance you could write about healthier, sugar-free options in an upcoming post?
Oh la la la! it’s looks very delicious, I can’t resist from it, hope to find a good restaurant in my country who can do such meal!
Somebody replied for a sugar free version, I bet you can leave out all the sugar, and make it savory, as the ‘non-sugars’ are quite bad for a human system, regular sugar is better for you. I do not really like sweet, so if I leave the sugar out, I may need to increase the thickening (flour?, oh well) a bit. Remember that processed flour is probably worse for you than real raw sugar.
But my 2 cents.