My mom’s pancakes filled with cottage cheese

There is this one dish that, once you’re back home at your mom’s place, you could eat non-stop. For me, these are the pancakes filled with home made cottage cheese. They are delicious and my absolute favorite. So, since I’m in Latvia for the holidays, now is the time to write down this adorable recipe and share it with you all. I hope that you will love them and, if  you don’t have time to make them, just come to my mom’s place and she will prepare them for you ;) I usually get them in the morning for breakfast – the perfect start for my day!

Yield: 12-13 pancakes, 2-3 per person 

Ingredients: 

Pancake dough

• 250g flour
• 0.5l whole milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 spoon olive oil
• 2 tea spoons of sugar
• a little bit of salt

Cottage cheese filling

• 0,5kg whole milk cottage cheese
• 2 eggs (from free-range chickens is best)
• 100g of sugar
• half a tea spoon of vanilla sugar
• a pinch of salt

To accompany them jam, fresh cream and some fresh cut fruit work best.

Step by step:

• Start by preparing the dough for the pancakes. Start beating the eggs, add sugar and salt, and go on until they are well mixed. Then add 3/4 of the milk and the flour. Keep whisking and then add in the rest of milk once it’s well mixed. The dough shouldn’t be too thick nor too liquid, something like vanilla sauce (dense, but it can still be poured).

• Once the pancake dough is ready, you can leave it aside and prepare the filling. Mix well the cottage cheese with the help of a wooden spoon or any kind of pounder – it should rather smooth. Then add two eggs, sugar, vanilla, sugar and salt. Mix it all well together.

• Fry pancakes from both sides. 1min from one side, then 30s from the other side.

• Once the pancakes are ready, put one big spoon of cottage cheese filling on the well fried side (1-min) and fold them as shown below. You should get nice rectangles at the end.

• Before you serve them, fry the filled pancakes from both sides once again and serve them with jam, some fruits or cream.

Enjoy!