To make delicious cottage cheese pancakes, also known as syrniki, we need a few simple ingredients: creamy, homemade cottage cheese, egg, sugar and all-purpose flour, with optional additions of baking powder for puffiness and a teaspoon of vanilla for a warm, aromatic touch.
Ingredients
- 250 g / 0.55 lbs cottage cheese
- 1 egg
- 50 g / 3 tbsp granulated sugar
- 50 g / 2.5 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder (optional)
- 1 tsp vanilla (optional)
- cooking oil (about 1.5 tbsp)
Directions
- Put the cottage cheese, vanilla, egg and sugar in a bowl. Mix everything well, making sure there are no cottage cheese lumps in the mixture.
- If you want the pancakes to be fluffier, add half a teaspoon of baking powder. The pancakes will be fine and tasty also if you skip the baking powder.
- Add and mix in the flour. You only need the flour to make the batter a bit thicker, so that it holds together and pancakes can be shaped. I add about 2 and a half tablespoons of flour as the cottage cheese I use is quite dry. Too much flour will make the pancakes dense. If you use cottage cheese, which has more liquid, like the store bought ones from a container with some milk or cream added, you will need to add more flour.
- Heat up a frying pan with about a tablespoon of cooking oil. I use sunflower oil for more neutral flavour.
- Wet your hands with a bit of water to be able to shape the pancakes easier as the batter otherwise will stick to your hands. Take about a tablespoon of the pancake batter and shape small patties.
- Put a lid on the pan and fry the pancakes on medium heat for a few minutes on one side so that they cook through and puff. After a few minutes, flip the pancakes and let the other side fry for a few minutes as well, till they are nicely brown. Add a bit more oil in the pan if the pancakes start to stick to the pan.
- When the pancakes are ready, remove them from the pan and put on a plate covered with a few sheets of paper towel or a napkin so that it soaks up some of the cooking oil from the pancakes and they are not greasy.
- And enjoy your cottage cheese pancakes on their own, with some jam, sour cream or honey!
NOTES
- Adjust the amount of sugar to your taste. I use freshly made cottage cheese with very mild flavour. If you use more sour cottage cheese, you might want to add a bit more sugar to balance the sourness.
- For best results, measure ingredients with a scale. All recipes are made with weighed ingredients using grams. Cup measurements are provided for your convenience.