COTTAGE CHEESE PANCAKES (SYRNIKI)

In Russia we name them “syrniki” which means cheesy pancakes, but the main ingredient – cottage cheese Russians calls “tvorog” which is not a cheese actually. We eat “tvorog” with sour cream or jam on breakfast, it is very healthy and tasty. You can find a million of cottage cheese pancakes recipe with different ingredients but my recipe is the simplest I have ever seen! Russians cook these pancakes as quick breakfast. This recipe as simple as 1-2-3! Just try to make pancakes by yourself and you’ll not be disappointed!

The ingredients we need for cottage cheese pancakes recipe:

400 gram cottage cheese

2-3 eggs

4 tablespoon sugar

pinch of salt

3-4 tablespoon flour

You can find cottage cheese in ANY Russian markets in milk section, it’s very popular as kefir, sour cream etc. We buy the cottage cheese packed in 200-250 gram packs. It is soft, defatted and a bit salty.

To turn this cottage cheese into light and tasty pancakes we need to add 3 eggs, 4 tablespoon sugar (or by taste), pinch of salt and mix all ingredients, to do this I always use my own tools – hands! It takes 1-2 minutes and the pastry is ready . I also recommend you to add a bit flour if the pastry looks wet but it always depends on cottage cheese. Mine was very soft so I did not add any flour into the pastry.

Dust the table with 3-4 tablespoon flour, take the pastry and shape into pancakes as shown in the pictures below.