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The New Year is closer than you can imagine. Many housewives have already started thoughtfully leafing through notebooks with branded recipes. However, you can impress your guests even with the help of fairly simple dishes. You only need to add one win-win ingredient to them. To create a whole festive menu, starting with delicious appetizers, ending with delicious desserts, will help processed and cottage cheese Hochland.
Tuna in cheese bliss
This snack is created for a festive dinner and a large company. The perfect base for it will be melted Hochland cream cheese in baths. The unique velvety taste is in harmony with any ingredients and gives the filling an unusually delicate texture.
Hard-boiled 3 eggs, peeled from the shell and grated on a fine grater. Drain the butter from the tin with canned tuna and mash the fish fillets with a fork into a thick pate, add 200 g of melted cheese. This filling can be filled with ready-made waffle tartlets or served on bruschetta. You can decorate them with rings of olives, herbs, red caviar beads or whole boiled shrimps — with any decor, such tartlets will be good.
Poetry between layers
What’s a New Year without a puff salad? Any of them will be even tastier if you add to the dressing the processed Hochland cheese “Cheese Classic” with maasdam cheese in the baths. The silky, enveloping texture and rich cheese flavor allow you to achieve the most expressive and refined combinations.
Boil 2 potatoes and a large carrot in salted water, peel and grate. Soak 10-12 large prunes in boiling water, dry them with a napkin and chop them into strips. In the same way, we chop 2 smoked chicken thighs. Brown 50 g of walnuts in a dry pan and grind with a rolling pin. Mix 150 g of melted cheese with 50 g of homemade mayonnaise, add a handful of chopped dill — that’s our sauce.
Place the serving ring on the plate and lay out the layers as follows: smoked chicken, potatoes, carrots and prunes. Each layer is tightly packed, salted and smeared with sauce. Sprinkle all the nuts on top and decorate with pomegranate seeds. This salad is the very epitome of a holiday.
A full pot of fun
Delicious cheese fondue is perfect for a New Year’s dinner in a family circle. Its secret ingredient will be the Hochland processed cheese “Soup and Sauce” for hot dishes in blocks. This cheese is prepared according to a special recipe, so it does not need to be cut into slices or grated. It melts before your eyes, giving the sauce a flowing, stringy texture and a deep, creamy taste.
If you don’t have a fondue pot, take a clay pot or a small ceramic pot. Rub a clove of garlic on the inside of the dishes, pour out 1 tbsp. l. corn starch, pour in 500 ml of champagne and gently bring to a boil in a water bath. Completely lay a block of melted cheese and completely dissolve. Finely chop the head of the shallot, mix with 1 tsp of garlic in granules, put ground chili and black pepper to taste, nutmeg on the tip of a knife. We introduce the spicy dressing into the cheese mass and stir well. Serve fondue best with slices of toasted bread or grilled mushrooms.
Lasagna in full dress
Do you expect to visit fans of Italian cuisine? Treat them to a festive lasagna. Curd cheese Hochland “For cooking”will give it seductive shades. The delicate creamy taste will organically complement the minced meat and make the combination of zucchini with mushrooms more interesting.
Dip 500 g square sheets of lasagna in boiling water for a minute. Fry 300 g of minced meat with onions, add 300 g of tomatoes in their own juice, 200 ml of dry red wine, 1 tbsp sugar, salt, black pepper and marjoram to taste. Simmer the bolognese sauce over low heat until thickened. Mix 300 g of cottage cheese, half a chopped bunch of coriander, 2 crushed garlic cloves and 1 tsp of Provencal herbs.
Lubricate a deep round heat-resistant bowl with olive oil, line with lasagna sheets. At the bottom, put a few circles of salami, cover with cheese sauce and lasagna sheets. Next comes a layer of bolognese and a new batch of dough squares. Cover everything with sheets of dough, sprinkle with oil and bake for 40 minutes at 180°C. Carefully turn the lasagna pan onto a serving platter and garnish with basil sprigs. Such a creation will surprise even sophisticated gourmets.
Pie as a holiday
Loran quiche with chicken and mushrooms will captivate guests with its very appearance. The taste will not disappoint them, because for the filling we will take the cottage cheese Hochland “For cooking”. The moderately dense and rather plastic texture of the cheese does not allow it to spread in the oven, which is why it is perfect for baking.
Knead the dough from 180 g of softened butter, 350 g of flour, eggs and a pinch of salt, send it to rest in the refrigerator for half an hour. At this time, chop into strips 300 g of chicken fillet and mushrooms, fry in a frying pan with olive oil along with a small onion until golden brown.
Tamp the dough into a baking dish, making high sides, evenly distribute the filling inside. Beat 200 g of cottage cheese, 150 g of sour cream and 3 eggs with a mixer until a smooth homogeneous mass is obtained, pour it into the filling. Chop 2 large mushrooms with transverse plates, and 5 cherry tomatoes-in half. We melt them in the fill, making a symmetrical pattern. Put the pie in the oven at 180°C for about 40-45 minutes. Be sure to serve the Laurent quiche warm — the wonderful aroma will tease the appetite of guests.
Three chocolate graces
Give the sweetmeats a little miracle-prepare the famous cake “Three Chocolates”. With Hochland cottage cheese “For cooking” it will be very easy to do this. Its delicate texture is perfect for such desserts. In combination with chocolate, it reveals the finest facets.
Grind into a crumb 300 g of shortbread cookies, mix with 150 g of melted butter. Tamp the mass in a thick layer in a high round shape with parchment paper and put it in the refrigerator.
Beat with a mixer 750 g of cottage cheese, 300 ml of cream and 100 g of powdered sugar in a smooth cream. Dissolve 5 sheets of gelatin in 50 ml of warm water, add it to the cream and divide it into three equal parts. In separate containers, melt 200 g of dark, milk and white chocolate. To each of them, we mix the cottage cheese cream.
In the cooled base of the cookies, we spread a layer of dark chocolate, put it in the freezer for 15 minutes. Then evenly distribute the layer of white chocolate, also cool for 15 minutes. The last layer is made of milk chocolate. While the cake has not had time to freeze, decorate it in a circle with small meringues and sprinkle with cinnamon. Such an exquisite dessert will make your home ladies happy.
As you can see, you can cook anything from the Hochland cheese collection. And when it comes to the New Year’s menu, they are absolutely irreplaceable. The harmonious taste of the cheese combines extraordinary tenderness and richness of refined shades. Therefore, any dish, whether it is a light snack or a colorful dessert, will become truly festive and will give guests a special pleasure.