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Soufflé with berries is a dish of airy lightness and pleasant sweetness, which can be presented as a fashionable independent dessert, as well as laid out as an interlayer between biscuit cakes of cakes and pastries. Especially popular is the recipe for soufflé from black currant and cottage cheese, cooked "cold" on gelatin.
Features of cooking currant soufflé
The name of the exquisite French dessert soufflé means “filled with air”. The dish is famous for its soft, porous texture and jelly consistency. For a successful result, you must follow the recommendations:
- For an airy and tender soufflé, it is necessary to use a pasty non-grained cottage cheese so that when whipping, the mass turns out to be uniform.
- Whisk the whites in a glass or ceramic container with a perfectly clean surface without grease or moisture.
- Eggs that are 3-4 days old are most suitable, which are best beaten into a shiny, strong foam.
- When using frozen black currants, thaw them and drain off the excess liquid.
Currant soufflé recipes
Recipes for soufflé from black currant with cottage cheese allow you to get a bright delicacy with a delicate taste, moderate sweetness and light berry sourness.
Black currant soufflé with cottage cheese
Curd-currant soufflé is a light dessert in which black sour berries favorably set off the sweetness of the creamy base.
List of products for the recipe:
- 500 g of black currant berries;
- 400 ml sour cream 20% fat;
- 200 g of fatty cottage cheese;
- ½ glass of drinking water;
- 6 full art. l. Sahara;
- 2 tbsp. l. powder instant gelatin.
Step by step cooking method:
- Wash the black currants and transfer to a deep bowl. Add water to the berries and add the entire portion of granulated sugar.
- Put a bowl of sugar-filled berries over medium heat, wait for a simmer and simmer the syrup for 2 minutes.
- After the berry has let out the juice, remove the container from the stove, cool slightly and rub the sweet syrup through a sieve so that no blackcurrant seeds get into the finished soufflé.
- Pour gelatin powder into sweet warm syrup and stir the mixture thoroughly.
- Send sour cream to the freezer for half an hour. When it has cooled, pour into a bowl and beat with a mixer at high speed so that the sour cream bubbles and grows in volume.
- Grind the cottage cheese through a fine mesh sieve or interrupt with an immersion blender until the grains are completely dissolved.
- Mix blackcurrant syrup with whipped sour cream and tender cottage cheese into a single mass with a silicone spatula.
- Distribute the liquid soufflé into the molds and remove to solidify in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.
The frozen currant soufflé can be used as a bright and fragrant layer for a cake or as an independent dessert. When served, it can be decorated with berries, basil or mint leaves, nut kernels, or grated dark chocolate.
Red currant soufflé
The texture of the soufflé with soft curd will be velvety and porous. The dessert goes well with berry fruit drinks and green tea with honey and baked milk. From dessert alcohol, mint and coffee liqueur, Italian bitter-almond "Amaretto" or Irish creamy "Baileys" are suitable.
A set of products for cooking:
- 300 g of soft fatty cottage cheese;
- 4 chicken proteins;
- 2 egg yolks;
- 2.5-3 cups red currants;
- 5 g agar-agar powder;
- 30 g butter 82% butter;
- 3-4 tbsp. l. powdered sugar;
- 100 ml of milk with a fat content of 2.5%.
Cooking recipe step by step:
- Pour agar-agar into warmed milk, mix and wait until the granules are completely dissolved.
- Set aside a few berries to decorate the soufflé, grind the rest or puree with a blender.
- Mix currant puree with egg yolks, sprinkle with icing sugar and beat on medium mixer speed.
- Rub the curd through a hair sieve and add agar diluted in milk in a thin stream.
- Beat the curd mass until a lush cloud with a blender or mixer.
- Transfer the currant puree to the cottage cheese and beat the future soufflé again.
- Whisk the cooled egg whites until they are strong and gently stir into the currant delicacy without disturbing the texture.
- Cover the confectionery form with cling film and transfer the dessert into it.
- Put the soufflé in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours.
Serve with powdered sugar or black chia seeds. Black blueberries, mint sprigs or slices of fresh strawberries can be placed on the surface.
Calorie content of currant soufflé
The most delicate soufflé with black currants perfectly suits as an interlayer for a biscuit cake or pastries, since the porous mass gives the delicacy lightness and literally melts in the mouth. The calorie content of the dish depends on the amount of sugar and the fat content of the cottage cheese. When using high-quality homemade milk and white sugar, the calorie content is 120 kcal / 100 g. To reduce the energy value, you can make the blackcurrant dessert less sweet or replace sugar with fructose.
Conclusion
The recipe for soufflé from black currant and cottage cheese will be an easy and tasty end to a gala dinner. Delicate berry dessert can be prepared all year round both from fresh currants and from frozen ones. The delicacy will turn out to be weightless, fragrant and very tasty.
