Ricotta is a dairy product, the home of which is Italy. And although this product is called cheese, this is not entirely true. Cheeses are made from milk, and ricotta is made from whey, left after cooking mozzarella. Below you will get acquainted with recipes for cooking dishes with ricotta cheese.
Salad with ricotta cheese
Ingredients:
- Ricotta cheese - 100 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- beets - 300 g;
- rosemary - 2 branches;
- pine nuts - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - 35 ml;
- parsley greens - 20 g.
Preparation
Beets can be brought to the ready in 2 ways - you can just boil it, and you can bake in the oven. Let the beet be cooled and cut into cubes. In a frying pan, we warm up the vegetable oil, then add crushed garlic and rosemary (1 branch) into it. Fry garlic with rosemary. Then we remove them, and with the received oil we water the beetroot. On top, lay out pieces of cheese, sprinkle with nuts, chopped parsley and rosemary.
Ricotta cheese cake
Ingredients:
- flour - 150 g;
- butter of 72.5% fat content - 60 g;
- sour cream - 60 g;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- egg whites - 2 pcs .;
- baking powder for dough - 5 g;
- Ricotta cheese - 400 g;
- banana - 1 pc.
Preparation
The softened butter is mixed with 1/3 sugar and sour cream. Add the flour with the baking powder, and knead the dough. Spread it evenly on a baking sheet, oiled. Put the diced banana on the dough. We put the baking tray in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, and bake for about 20 minutes until the cake is browned.
Ricotta cheese is mixed with 1/3 sugar, add vanillin and mix. Egg whites are combined with the remaining sugar and beat to a thick foam. When the cake is browned, we take it out of the oven and spread the filling evenly, using a confectionery syringe to squeeze out the protein cream from above. We send the cake to the oven and bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes until the proteins acquire a brownish hue.
Sandwiches with ricotta cheese
Ingredients:
- bread - 4 slices;
- tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
- Ricotta - 0,5 glasses;
- hard cheese - 2 slices;
- mayonnaise - 40 g;
- seasoning "Italian herbs."
Preparation
Heat the oven grill and set the grate at a distance of 15 cm from the grill. We lay the baking tray with baking paper. Tomatoes cut into circles and put on a baking sheet, we spread ricotta on top, sprinkle with Italian seasoning and send it to the oven for 5 minutes, until cheese begins to melt.
We toast the bread in the toaster. 2 pieces of oil with mayonnaise, and the rest 2 put on a slice of cheese. For the cheese we put baked tomatoes with ricotta and cover with bread lozenged with mayonnaise. That's all, ricotta cheese sandwiches are ready.
Dessert with ricotta cheese
Ingredients:
- Ricotta cheese - 4 cups;
- lemon peel - 1 teaspoon;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- vanilla extract - 2 tsp.
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- salt - ¼ tsp spoon;
- Strawberry - 2 cups;
- raspberry - 2 cups;
- blueberries - 2 cups;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- powdered sugar - 20 g;
- fresh mint;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
The oven is heated to 180 degrees. Mix ricotta, sugar, vanilla extract and lemon zest. Then we mix it all up at a medium speed, about 2 minutes. Then one by one enter the eggs and lay the mass in a round shape, greased with vegetable oil. Bake for about 1 hour, then cool and lay out on a flat dish. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Mix the sliced strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar and lemon juice. Stir and leave for 5 minutes. We spread berries for dessert with ricotta cheese and decorate with mint leaves.