How to Make Crepes Filled with Cottage Cheese and Poppy Seeds
Crepes with cottage cheese and poppy seeds are another variation of sweet nalysnyky. They can be served for breakfast, lunch or dessert. As in previous recipe, thin crepes are filled with a sweet mixture of cottage cheese and sugar, and then poppy seeds are added to this mixture. Once filled, nalysnyky are rolled up and then can be pan-fried until golden and crispy.
Equipment
- 1 Skillet
- 1 whisk
- 1 oven pan
- 1 spatula
Ingredients
Cottage cheese and poppyseed filling – Ingredients:
- 450 g farmer’s or homemade cottage cheese should not be wet
- 3 tbsp raisins washed, dried
- 2 tbsp poppyseeds soaked overnight
- 2 tbsp egg whites or 1 egg
- 1 tbsp vanilla sugar or vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp sugar
- pinch of salt
Instructions
Method of Preparation:
- Soak poppy seeds overnight and rinse them in the morning. Soaking helps the seeds become softer and release their special flavor.
- In a bowl, mix well cottage cheese, egg whites or egg, sugar, vanilla sugar, and salt.1
- Cut raisins and add them as well as poppy seeds to the cottage cheese. Mix well.
- Spread the filling evenly over one crepe, then over the other one, and put one crepe on another.
- Fold one side of the crepes and roll them up in one nalysnyk. Cut the stuffed nalysnyk into three pieces.
- Brush the oven pan with butter and place the nalysnyky on the pan.
- Cover the nalysnyky with aluminum foil and bake for 20 minutes in a 400 F (200 C) oven.
- Serve warm.
Notes
Tip: We don’t add any sour cream to the cottage cheese as the filling should be dry enough not to melt in the oven.