Cottage cheese pie with plums and nuts

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients. To prepare the curd dough, we will need: cottage cheese (preferably lumpy, not moist; I took moist cottage cheese in briquettes and when mixed with butter crumbs and I began to form large lumps), flour, sugar, cold butter; baking powder.

2. Step 2:

   

   Mix flour with sugar and baking powder.

3. Step 3:

   

   Divide the flour mixture into two equal parts. Add cottage cheese to the first part of the flour mixture.

4. Step 4:

   

   Rub it with your hands until you get a fine crumb.

5. Step 5:

   

   In the second part of the flour mixture, add cold butter cut into pieces and grind everything into crumbs.

6. Step 6:

   

   Combine the two types of crumbs and mix gently, trying not to crush the crumbs so that it does not gather into a lump. When I mixed it, I got a larger crumb than I wanted. While the filling is being prepared, it is better to put the crumbs in the refrigerator.

7. Step 7:

   

   Filling. To prepare the filling, we will need: plums (preferably dense, not soft); any nuts and powdered sugar.

9. Step 8:

   

   Wash the plums, cut in half and remove the pits.

10. Step 9:

    

    Chop the nuts with a knife. I have pistachios, for lack of others, there were pistachios, and you can use any. Walnuts and hazelnuts are combined with plums.

11. Step 10:

    

    Pour the resulting crumbs into a greased and floured baking dish (Ø 26-28) cm. Level.

12. Step 11:

    

    Put the chopped nuts on the dough.

13. Step 12:

    

    Put the plum halves on top.

14. Step 13:

    

    Sprinkle the plums with 1 tbsp sugar. Bake the pie for about 35 minutes in a preheated 180 ° C oven.

15. Step 14:

    

    Cool the cake slightly, remove from the mold and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve the pie to the table and cut into pieces. Bon appetit!