Cottage cheese with walnuts

Nutritious cottage cheese snack with nuts - very spicy! Cottage cheese with walnuts is an interesting and very tasty snack that is prepared in a few minutes without much hassle! The main thing is to take a good cottage cheese: soft and moderately moist. Such a snack is best served chilled on slices of fragrant bread, such as "Borodinsky". To your taste, the curd mass can be supplemented with fresh herbs: chopped dill or cilantro.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 43 % 16 g
Fats 51 % 19 g
Carbohydrates 5 % 2 g
240 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 15 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the products that are necessary for cooking a dish called "Cottage cheese with walnuts". This is a savory snack. You need to cook it from the freshest soft cottage cheese. It is advisable to take a market, tender, not grainy cottage cheese. It should be very fresh, because the cottage cheese will not be subjected to heat treatment.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Finely chop the walnuts. This can be done either with a mortar, or using a blender or chop the nuts with a knife. Pre-nuts can be lightly fried in a dry frying pan, cooled and then crushed - it will taste better this way!

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Mash the cottage cheese thoroughly, add chopped walnuts.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Finely chop the peeled garlic or grate it on a fine grater and add it to the total mass. Add salt and other ingredients as desired (herbs, spices.)

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Mix all the ingredients well until smooth. If the cottage cheese is dry, then you can add a little melted butter. Serve ready-made cottage cheese with walnuts on slices of black bread. It will be especially convenient if you take the bread already sliced.

In general, a curd snack with walnuts turns out to be quite self-sufficient and balanced. In addition to fresh herbs, you can put some spices to your taste: ground black pepper, ground coriander, Svan salt.
Garlic is best taken young. In old garlic, it is necessary to remove the green sprout inside, if there is one. This must be done in order to remove the excessive aggressiveness and "obsession" of the garlic taste.
As an option, such a curd snack can be served wrapped in fresh lettuce leaves or with a piece of pita bread!
An extravagant taste of such a snack will be given by added mint or basil.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Cottage cheese of 40% fat content - 466   kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese of 20% fat content - 233   kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese of 18% fat content - 226   kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese of 10% fat content - 156   kcal/100g
  • Low-fat cottage cheese - 75   kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese with sour cream - 260   kcal/100g
  • Fruit cottage cheese - 147   kcal/100g
  • Soft dietary cottage cheese - 170   kcal/100g
  • Vitalinia cottage cheese - 64   kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese "morning" ( "danone") without sugar - 91   kcal/100g
  • Cottage cheese - 156   kcal/100g
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g

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