Airy cottage cheese casserole in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make an airy casserole? Prepare the products for her. Take a fat cottage cheese, it will make the most delicious casserole. Keep in mind that the calorie content will then be high. If the cottage cheese is dry, then add a small amount of sour cream or natural yogurt. With this amount of sugar, you will get a casserole of medium sweetness, look to your taste. Instead of flour, you can put corn starch, it will turn out even more tender.

2. Step 2:

   

   Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Try to do this as carefully as possible so that the yolk does not get into the whites, even a drop of it can prevent them from whipping. Put the proteins in the refrigerator.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add sugar, cottage cheese, vanilla and flour to the yolks.

4. Step 4:

   

   Punch all the products with an immersion blender. Don't skip this step. The mass after whipping will become very tender and homogeneous, which will make the casserole airy and soft. Simple mixing of cottage cheese will not give such an effect. If you do not have a blender, then be sure to wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve.

5. Step 5:

   

   Take the proteins out of the refrigerator. Add a pinch of salt to them - this will help them beat up and enhance the taste of the rest of the products in the casserole. Beat the whites with a mixer to peaks - this is a condition when the blades of the mixer leave obvious traces that do not fall off after the end of whipping.

7. Step 6:

   

   Add proteins to the bulk.

8. Step 7:

   

   Gently, using a silicone spatula or whisk, mix the proteins into the cottage cheese. Do this with movements from the bottom up, as if you are burying proteins. It is the air in the whipped whites that will raise the future casserole when baking.

9. Step 8:

   

   Take a baking dish. The smaller the shape is in size, the higher the casserole will turn out. Mine is 18 cm in diameter. Brush it with a small piece of butter.

10. Step 9:

    

    Pour the dough into the mold, level the top.

11. Step 10:

    

    Bake the casserole in the oven, preheated to 190 ° C, top-bottom mode, for 45-50 minutes. Focus on the appearance of the casserole - it should become ruddy. The casserole rises very much during baking, and then, when it cools down, it falls off. This is normal, because it is prepared like a souffle, and has a similar structure. The casserole is delicious both warm and cold.