The best recipes for dumplings with cottage cheese in one place (traditional and non-traditional variants)

Do you remember the holidays at your grandmother’s? Make sweet cottage cheese dumplings and go back to your childhood.

The recipe for cottage cheese dough is surprisingly simple.

Summer is full of fruit and you can fill cottage cheese dumplings with anything you have on hand.

How about trying something a little healthier?

Check out our recipes.

Luxurious cottage cheese dumplings with strawberries

A holiday at a cottage or a weekend at a cottage? A great lunch that won’t take you all day to prepare? Try the holiday evergreen – strawberry cottage cheese dumplings. The recipe is easy and quick, and the taste is simply delicious.

Ingredients

• 20 – 30 pieces of medium strawberries
• 200 g coarse flour
• 250 g semi-fat cottage cheese
• 1 egg
• pinch of salt

Method

1. Mash the cottage cheese and mix it with the egg and salt
2. Add the flour and mix until a dough forms
3. If the dough is sticky, add more flour
4. Form it into a roll about 5 cm in diameter
5. Cut 1-2 cm wide slices from the roll
6. Place a strawberry in each, press in and cover with dough
7. Place the prepared dumplings in boiling salted water and cook for about 8 minutes until they float to the surface

Fluffy cottage cheese dumplings with fruit

You can make the dough rise even more by adding snow. Just be careful that the diners don’t rip off your hands.

Ingredients

• 200 g semi-coarse flour
• 250 g of soft cottage cheese
• 2 eggs
• 100 g of butter
• 2 tablespoons of sugar
• pinch of salt
• 150 g of raspberries

Method

1. Separate the yolks from the whites
2. Beat the yolks with melted butter and sugar
3. Beat the egg whites until stiff
4. Mix salt, flour and cottage cheese
5. Add the yolk mixture and form a dough
6. Carefully mix the snow into it
7. Make a roll from the dough and cut slices from it
8. Press each slice into a pancake
9. Put a spoonful of raspberries in the middle, cover them with dough and form a ball
10. Boil the resulting dumplings in boiling salted water until they float to the surface

Gluten-free cottage cheese dumplings

Do you avoid gluten? Or do you just want to prepare cottage cheese dumplings in a healthy way? You can’t go wrong with this recipe. The great taste remains even without wheat flour.

Ingredients

• 200 g of gluten-free flour
• 250 g of cottage cheese
• 1 egg
• pinch of salt
• 10-15 apricots

Method

1. Split the apricots and remove the pits
2. Mash the cottage cheese and mix it with the egg and salt
3. Add the flour and mix until a dough forms
4. If the dough is sticky, add more flour
5. Form it into a roll about 5 cm in diameter
6. Cut 1-2 cm wide slices from the roll
7. Flatten each one, insert half an apricot and cover it with dough
8. Place in boiling salted water and cook until they float to the surface

Do you have a lot of apricots and don’t know what to do with them? It is best to store them for the winter. Check out tips on how to preserve apricots.

Potato dumplings with cottage cheese

Plum dumplings made from cottage cheese dough, to which potatoes are added. A surprising combination that you must try.

Ingredients

• 200 g of potatoes
• 250 g of soft cottage cheese
• 300 g coarse flour
• 1 egg
• pinch of salt
• 20-30 pieces of plums

Method

1. Boil the potatoes in their skins and let them cool
2. Peel them and grate them on a fine grater
3. Add salt, flour, eggs and cottage cheese and make a smooth dough
4. Roll out the dough into a roll with a diameter of about five centimeters
5. Cut it into slices
6. Crush each slice, put a plum in it and cover it with dough
7. Place in boiling salted water and cook for 7-8 minutes until the dumplings float to the surface

Cottage cheese dumplings with blueberry sauce

You don’t have to fill the cottage cheese dumplings with fruit every time. Shape the dough into smaller balls, wrap them in breadcrumbs after cooking, and the goodness is ready. Drizzle with blueberry sauce for total perfection.

Ingredients

• 350 g of cottage cheese
• 200 g breadcrumbs
• 2 eggs
• 100 g of butter
• 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar
• 500 g of blueberries
• 2 dcl of milk
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 3 tsp potato starch

Method

1. Make a dough from half the breadcrumbs, half the softened butter, eggs, cottage cheese and powdered sugar
2. Make small dumplings
3. Place them in a pot of boiling water and let them cook on a low heat for about 10 minutes
4. Heat the remaining butter in a pan and sprinkle the breadcrumbs over it
5. Stirring constantly, fry it until golden
6. Put the blueberries and granulated sugar in a small saucepan, cover with water and let the fruit boil over a low heat
7. Then add milk, sprinkle starch and boil briefly
8. Wrap the finished dumplings in breadcrumbs on all sides and serve topped with blueberry sauce

Proven preparation advice

How to make the best cottage cheese dough? Take a look at a few small gadgets, or get inspired in the video recipe:

• Use cubed soft cottage cheese, not from a tub. The tub contains too much liquid and the dough becomes unnecessarily sticky.
• Let the curd that is too watery drip off in a strainer or you can squeeze out the excess liquid through cheesecloth.
• Instead of flour, you can use semolina or baby semolina in the recipes, the dough is then softer.
• Dumplings can be frozen raw, and whenever you feel like them, all you have to do is transfer them from the freezer to boiling water, let them cook for a few minutes before they float to the surface and you can serve.
• If you don’t have fresh fruit on hand, you can use frozen.
• Traditionally, dumplings are served with grated hard cottage cheese, icing sugar and melted butter, but try butter, sugar, cinnamon and sliced almonds or butter, sugar and poppy seeds. Sour cream is also great.

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