Cottage cheese strudel

Each Friday I'll bake something for my partner's parents when he goes home for private classes. I tell you, it's a great way to experiment with lots of recipes and not having to gain the extra inches on the waist *evil grin*

This week there's left over cottage cheese in the fridge, so it's easy to decide on what to bake. Originally I set my mind on cottage cheese cake but when I saw some strudel at the convenient store I changed my mind ;)

For someone who hasn't acquired the taste of cottage cheese, I find the end result quite appetising!

Note :
Conincidentally, my fave. Hungarian food blog baked something similar. With the use of canned peach pieces ; which I'll definitely incl. in the future.



Cottage cheese strudel
Yield : 8 square pieces using 32x21cm baking pan

Ingredient for fillings
adapted from Allrecipes

300 g cottage cheese
80 ml milk
1-1/3 eggs
15 g all-purpose flour
20 ml lemon juice
3 ml vanilla extract
90 g white sugar
1 g salt
handful of raisin, soaked til soft

Ingredients for Strudel Layers (estimates)
6 pcs Filo (Strudel) sheets (size slightly larger than baking pan)
60 gm butter, melted

Method :-
1) Pre-heat oven gas mark 3.

2) In a blender, combine cottage cheese, milk, eggs, flour, lemon juice, vanilla, sugar and teaspoon salt. Blend until smooth. Mix in the soften raisin. Set aside

3) Grease a baking pan. Put two filo sheets inside, then spread metled butter on them, then put Put half of the cottage cheese filling on it, followed by 2 new filo sheets, again spread with melted butter. Next spread the other half of the filling, finish off with remaining 2 pcs. of filo sheets and melted butter.

4) Grease knife and cut pre-bake strudel according to your liking.

5) Bake for 25 mins. or until golden brown.

6) Dust icing sugar before serving.