Usuba
Cottage Cheese Pie with Shortcrust Pastry
A tender pie with cottage cheese filling and crispy pastry crust. You can decorate it with thawed berries — blueberries, cherries, or strawberries, sprinkling them with sugar before baking.
- Total
- 45 min
- Standard serving
- 124.8 g
Ingredients
Total 7
Instructions
- 1
Step 1
Mix the flour, baking powder, and half of the sugar. Add the butter cut into thin pieces and mix with your hands until breadcrumb-like texture forms. This is the base of the dough.
- 2
Step 2
Mash the cottage cheese with a fork, add sour cream and egg yolks. Mix until smooth.
- 3
Step 3
Whip the egg whites with the remaining sugar until the volume increases approximately 3 times. Carefully fold the whipped egg whites into the cottage cheese mixture.
- 4
Step 4
Spread two-thirds of the crumb mixture into a baking pan. Distribute the cottage cheese and protein mass on top and sprinkle with the remaining dough.
- 5
Step 5
Bake in a preheated oven at 180–200 degrees for 25–30 minutes. Turn off the oven and cool the cake with the door slightly ajar, then let it cool at room temperature. Place in the refrigerator to cool — there it will become denser and acquire a cheesecake-like consistency.
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