Miracle with cottage cheese is a wonderful hearty dish, a symbol of Dagestan pride, where a miracle is a favorite dish of adults and children. Thanks to a harmonious combination of components, the miracle perfectly fit into the cuisine of Russians, where it was loved for its ease of preparation and taste. Let’s tell you the secrets of making thin, melt-in-bread cakes.
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Classic recipe
It's no secret that in the Caucasus they passionately love meat and add it almost everywhere. Unlike many other Caucasian dishes, a miracle is mainly prepared with cottage cheese, potatoes, greens. Minced meat is rarely put here (although this happens on holidays). Another secret of the dish is toasting in a dry pan. But then it’s important to pour the tortillas abundantly with delicious butter. The dough for a miracle is done only on their own, the benefit is that it is kneaded quite simply.
Vegetable oil will give the test elasticity, but in general you can do without this ingredient, soda in the dough is also added as desired.
What we need:
- 1000 g of wheat flour;
- 4 eggs;
- A glass of water or a little more (how much dough will take);
- 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
- 600 g of cottage cheese for the filling;
- sour cream or natural yogurt;
- salt, spices to taste.
How to cook a miracle:
- First, knead the dough from flour, water and eggs with a couple of spoons of vegetable oil. An elastic fresh dough should be obtained, which is important to let stand for 20 minutes under a lid of cling film.
- While the dough is “resting”, we’ll make the filling: slightly salt the cottage cheese, add spices, season with sour cream. You get a spicy curd mixture.
- Roll out a thick sausage from the dough, and cut it into washers 3 cm wide. Roll the resulting pieces into thin flat cakes.
- On each lay out the filling, pinch the edges in the manner of chebureks.
- Fried miracles ready over medium heat in a dry skillet. On the surface of the dough should be beautiful rosy spots.
- We generously lubricate the miracle with butter, transfer to a plate.
From the specified amount, a dozen fresh crispy cakes with cottage cheese are obtained. They are very tasty with hot herbal tea, and in the Caucasus they are often eaten with ayran, katyk and other sour-milk drinks. Bon Appetit.
Cooking with herbs
Some Caucasian craftswomen do not think a miracle without spices, fresh herbs. There it is added different - basil, cilantro, thyme, tarragon. Everyone greets this greens - from small to large, they eat it in bunches. A miracle with cottage cheese and herbs is the housewives' favorite dish, and the recipes are different for everyone.
To prepare a miracle, we need:
- finished dough (see classic recipe);
- 600 g of cottage cheese for the filling;
- sour cream or natural yogurt;
- a large bunch of any greenery - choose according to preferences.
- salt, spices to taste.
Cooking Instructions:
- From the finished dough we make koloboks of equal size, roll them, turn them into cakes.
- We cook the filling from cottage cheese, herbs, sour cream or yogurt. Do not forget to season with salt.
- We spread it in the center of the cake, evenly distributed on the surface of the dough.
- We pinch the edges tightly, and then fry in a dry pan.
We lubricate the miracles that are ready, let it soak and serve. We eat, savoring slices of gentle creamy dough, spicy juicy filling.
With the addition of potatoes
The version of the miracle with cottage cheese and potatoes is the closest to Russian cuisine, where root vegetables are adored in different forms. The advantage of such a filling is its fullness. The taste of the product is more dense and slightly fresh. But such a miracle is even tastier, because kids really like it.
For greater juiciness, add the onion fried in butter to the filling.
Necessary components:
- finished dough (see classic recipe);
- 300 g of cottage cheese for the filling;
- 300 g mashed potatoes;
- sour cream or natural yogurt;
- a large bunch of any greenery - choose to your taste.
- salt, spices.
How to cook:
- Roll out the dough into koloboks, and turn them into thin cakes.
- Mix cottage cheese in equal proportions with mashed potatoes, add sour cream, herbs, spices.
- Put the filling on the tortilla, pinch the edges, and then fry the tortillas in a pan.
- When rosy spots “bubble up” on the surface of the products, remove the food from the fire and saturate the miracle with plenty of fresh butter.
We eat with pleasure, washed down with fragrant tea, or milk - it is so delicious that beyond words!
Miracle with wild garlic and cottage cheese
A miracle with wild garlic and cottage cheese is another common dish in the Caucasus. Ramson is a grass that in spring appears from the ground of one of the first plants. Its taste is spicy, reminiscent of both onion and garlic. In Russia, such a bow is often called "bearish". It is believed that clubfoot after hibernation pounce on the grass, replenishing vitamins lost after hibernation. In Dagestan, the grass is eaten fresh, pickled, salty. And in part, she too is a symbol of Caucasian cuisine.
Sometimes in Dagestan, instead of cottage cheese, they use fresh goat cheese, such as Adyghe cheese, or feta cheese from sheep’s milk, previously lightly soaked in milk from excess salt.
For a miracle with wild garlic we will prepare:
- fresh dough in water or milk - 800 g;
- cottage cheese - 500 g;
- ramson - a large bunch of fresh grass;
- salt, spices to taste;
- egg - 2 pcs.
Step-by-step instruction:
- First, roll out dough cakes with a diameter of 8-10 cm.
- Mix cottage cheese with wild garlic, salt, spices, egg.
- Put the filling on each cake.
- We print the edges.
- Fry in a dry frying pan.
Lubricate the prepared miracle with plenty of oil, let them rest a little bit, and then serve warm. Especially delicious are cakes with savory tea - a spicy, hot and sweet drink.
An unusual version with nettles
Instead of wild garlic, nettle can be added in early summer. It will turn out juicy, tasty, unusual. Just do not forget to scald the burning grass with boiling water, and then cut into small pieces.
Nettle is easy to replace with spinach or sorrel: they will give a pleasant sourness.
Essential Ingredients:
- fresh dough in water or milk - 800 g;
- cottage cheese - 500 g;
- nettle - a large bunch;
- salt, spices to taste;
- eggs - 2 pcs.
The cooking instruction looks like this:
- From the dough we roll koloboks, and from them - cakes.
- Prepare the filling of cottage cheese, spices, herbs. You can add a clove of garlic for piquancy.
- Lay out the filling in the center of the tortilla, and seal the edges tightly.
- Fry in a dry frying pan until a delicious golden crust.
- Lubricate with butter.
Serve for tea, cocoa, or just eat with a glass of milk.
Dagestani baking
In each region of Dagestan, there are secrets to making a miracle. Some bake them in stoves-sajas, there are areas where the miracle is called afarara. As we have said, more often miracles are prepared with savory filling. But we will tell about the meat option so that you can execute it.
Components needed for meat Dagestan miracle:
- 500 g minced veal, lamb;
- large onion;
- dough (according to the classic recipe) - 800 g;
- a large bunch of tarragon, cilantro, basil;
- a large piece of butter.
How to cook:
- First, prepare the filling: in minced meat, cut into large cubes onion, herbs.
- Roll out thin cakes from the dough.
- Put the filling in the center, spread it evenly over the dough.
- We roll the cakes, slightly pressing them in the center - it is important for them to give a flat look.
- Fry in a dry pan.
- Lubricate with butter.
Meat miracles are fabulously good in a slightly warm form when mouth-watering juice drips into your mouth, giving away the aromas of greenery. It is tasty, satisfying and quite unusual. Another plus - such a miracle compares favorably with fatty and heavy pasties, fried in a huge amount of vegetable fat.
How to cook a delicate miracle with cottage cheese
How to cook a particularly thin miracle? Very simple! The dough in this case is made on kefir, which gives the muffin special tenderness, elasticity. Such a dough is rolled up to several millimeters. Just be careful that the product does not tear when rolling and pinching the edges of the miracle cakes.
You do not need to extinguish soda: a fermented milk product will make it no worse than lemon or familiar vinegar.
What we need:
- 500 ml of warm kefir;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- flour - 800 g (or less);
- salt;
- cottage cheese - 600 g;
- any greens - a bunch;
- butter is a big piece.
How to cook:
- First, knead the dough on kefir with soda and egg. Let’s lie down for 10-25 minutes.
- The second step is to mix all the ingredients for the filling, salt them and pepper.
- We roll the cakes, and in the center of each we put the curd filling.
- Close the edges, fry in a dry frying pan.
- Grease miracles ready for butter, give us a “breath”, then eat, rejoice, glorifying the miracle cook. Https: //www.youtube.com/watch? V = ByyFmRoAEzo
There may be even more options for preparing a miracle. Pumpkin, just greens, any cheese, mushrooms, and rice mixed with fish will easily serve as the filling. Prepare a miracle, pamper your loved ones, be full and happy.