Barnaul Resident's Slow Cooker Cottage Cheese Casserole Recipe

Barnaul resident Yulia Kanitelena shared with NGS22.RU her secret for making an incredibly tasty, healthy, and beautiful cottage cheese casserole in a slow cooker. The main advantage of this recipe is the availability and simplicity of ingredients that can be found in every home.

What you«ll need:

• Cottage cheese: 1 kilogram (about 2.2 lb) (preferably fine-grained, non-acidic, village-style)

• Eggs: 6 large

• Sugar: 1 full glass

• Chocolate: 1 large bar of dark or bitter chocolate

• Vegetable oil: 10 ml (for greasing the slow cooker bowl)

• Cream: 100 ml (10%)

• Flour: 5 tablespoons

Preparation:

• In a deep bowl, combine all the cottage cheese with six large eggs. Mix thoroughly.

• Add sugar and beat the mixture.

• Divide the resulting cottage cheese and egg mixture into two equal parts.

• Break the bar of dark chocolate into pieces.

• Add cream to the chocolate and place over low heat, stirring constantly, until the chocolate is completely melted.

• Let the chocolate mixture cool slightly.

• Gently pour the cooled chocolate mixture into one half of the cottage cheese base.

• Into each of the two halves (chocolate and plain), add half of the total amount of starch (or flour) and mix each separately thoroughly.

• Before starting to lay out the dough, be sure to grease the slow cooker bowl with vegetable oil (you can also use butter).

• To make the casserole especially elegant, lay out the dough alternately: first ¼ of the chocolate dough, then ¼ of the white, and so on, until both masses are used up. This will create a beautiful marbled pattern, reminiscent of a «Zebra» cake.

Baking time:

• Set the slow cooker to the «Bake» mode and cook the dessert for 80–85 minutes.

• After the program ends, do not rush to take out the casserole. Leave it in the slow cooker with the lid closed for another half hour.

• Carefully remove the cooled casserole from the bowl using a spatula and transfer it to a beautiful dish.