I love fried suluguni cheese very much. In general, ideally, it would be nice if the cheese was smoked, you don't even need to roll it in flour. But, unfortunately, we do not sell it, and it appears with me only after trips to Georgia.
A very simple appetizer. As easy as it is quick to prepare. Truth also disappears from the table quickly enough, especially if it is accompanied by beer.
Nothing is required for cooking:
- Sulguni cheese
- Breadcrumbs
- Chicken eggs
- Optional - good adjika or seasonings to taste
- Vegetable oil for frying
We break the egg into a suitable vessel,
We shake it up. Add adjika and / or seasonings if desired.
Then cut the cheese into slices about 1 cm thick.
Dip the cheese one slice into the egg,
then we bread in breadcrumbs.
We repeat the process 2 or 3 times. The main task is to achieve a dense shell from bread crumbs on cheese.
Otherwise, when frying, the cheese will flow out corny.
Heat vegetable oil in a skillet. There is no need to overheat the oil - just warm it up well - otherwise the breading will instantly burn out. Fry pieces of cheese on both sides over medium heat.
Next, serve and serve hot. Cheese can be served with thick dip sauces, the same "Dzadziki (Tsatsiki)", or the same tomato.
Recipe 2: Suluguni fried in flour (step by step photos)
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- 1 box of suluguni cheese (pizza mozzarella or hard cheese)
- 2 eggs
- bread crumbs
- frying oil
Cut the cheese into slices 1-1.5 cm thick.
Beat eggs. Dip a piece of cheese in the egg first.
Then in flour.
Then again in the egg.
Then in breadcrumbs. you need to roll well so that the crackers cover the entire surface, otherwise the cheese will "run away".
Fry on both sides until golden brown.
Recipe 3: Suluguni fried with tomatoes and potatoes
Warm appetizer from Suluguni and tomatoes
- Tomatoes 500 gr.
- Red onion 80 gr.
- Suluguni cheese 400 gr.
- Vegetable oil 40 ml.
- Cilantro 20 gr.
- Parsley 20 gr.
- Dill 20 gr.
Cut the tomatoes and onions into rings
Suluguni cheese grate
Chop herbs (cilantro, dill, parsley), mix with oil, salt and pepper
Stir in tomatoes, onions and herbs. Place in a fireproof dish and cover with suluguni cheese.
Put in an oven preheated to 220 degrees for 7-10 minutes.
Garnish with cilantro leaves before serving.
Recipe 4: Fried suluguni in pita bread with tomatoes and herbs
I like to pamper loved ones with suluguni in pita bread. In nature, you can cook this dish on the grill. I have a grill pan at home. Ribbed like that. I will not give the exact weight of the products. Everything "by eye".
- half a kilo of suluguni
- 3-5 sheets of thin pita bread
- 3-4 tomatoes
- a bunch of cilantro, dill and parsley / the more herbs, the better /
Grind the suluguni. Cut into small cubes.
Finely chop the greens. Mix with shredded cheese.
Peel the tomatoes. Cut into rings. Add a little bit.
Cut the lavash sheets in half.
Put 2-3 cups of tomato on pita bread. Place it 1/3 from the edge.
Pour a couple of cheese with herbs on top.
We turn it into an envelope. A la shawarma.
Place in a preheated frying pan WITHOUT oil, seam down.
We fry for a minute or two. How to "grab", i.e. pita bread will harden - turn it over.
With chilled white semi-sweet wine - you can swallow your fingers.
Recipe 5: Suluguni fried in pita bread: the easiest recipe
A Georgian woman told me how to use lavash and suluguni correctly. It is necessary to cut off a piece of pita bread, wrap it in an envelope (I could not imagine an envelope made of pita bread). In a dry frying pan, fry pita bread with suluguni over medium heat until a crust appears.
I took the liberty of modernizing this dish a bit. I bought cilantro and tarragon (aka tarragon and trachun herb, as one friend of mine says).
I cut the pita sheets into 4 pieces. From a piece of suluguni cut slices of 20 grams. Finely chopped greens.
I lit a medium fire in my stove, put the pan on, warmed it up properly. And smacked on her "envelopes" of lavash.
I fried it. The whole process took about 5 minutes. I turned it over 2 times. As soon as the melted suluguni began to stand out from the cracks in the envelopes, I stopped the process. I threw the resulting product into a plate and waited for it to cool down a little.
The result is excellent buns! A very cool appetizer.
Thanks to the Georgian comrades for the simple and delicious recipe.
For cheese lovers, you will have a light, but at the same time hearty snack that can be used as breakfast, for dinner, or served on a festive table. You just need to master some recipes and techniques, and boldly fry suluguni. And for an aperitif wine or beer to an original dish, and the restaurant atmosphere is guaranteed!
Preparation
Suluguni is similar to mozzarella, but harder and more salty. It is better to give preference to smoked cheese. A fried cheese dish tastes better when eaten hot. The product goes well with both hot and creamy sauces.
If you are frying half a kilo of cheese, you should additionally prepare a stack of olive oil and a large spoonful of butter. A piece of hard butter must be melted in a hot frying pan, or use ghee, add a dose of olive oil, so the butter will not burn.
Tip: It is preferable to use olive oil with the category "Pomas", on which the suluguni will not burn.
Before frying, the cheese is cut into centimeter-thick cubes. Fry on both sides of the bars.
In flour
To fry 300 grams of cheese, you need to take: half a teaspoon of paprika, 2 or 3 tablespoons of flour, half a teaspoon of pepper mixture from a bag.
Cutting the suluguni into slices, dip it in a mixture of flour with seasonings, lay it out in a pan, preheated and oiled with oil. You need to fry for about 40 seconds. On the one hand, and the same amount on the other. After removing the product, it is immediately served independently. Together, you can eat vegetables, especially tomatoes, various herbs, as well as boiled chicken eggs.
To prevent the suluguni from spreading in the pan, it is fried for 30 or 40 seconds. on both sides in case of strong fire without a cover.
A simple and dietary suluguni recipe without breading is called the "Poet's Dream". From the ingredients you need: 300 or 400 grams of suluguni, a little olive oil, any spices and spicy herbs.
Butter is poured into a frying pan, warmed up, it is good to throw rosemary and thyme twigs (whole) into it, which will give the oil a unique aroma. If fresh herbs are not available, then spices and basil are poured.
Then cheese bars are laid out. Fry both sides for a few seconds. You don't need to bake too much. If you notice a slight browning, you should turn the piece to the other side. Suluguni can be put on the table directly in a frying pan, consumed hot, slightly melted, uncured.
Suluguni goes well with a sauce, for which ghee is mixed with cilantro and a couple of minced garlic cloves.
Breaded
Before frying, the cheese is breaded. A chicken egg is beaten, sprinkled with spices, everything is mixed. Pieces of 2 by 4 cm are cut, the thickness should be no more than one, so that the product is easily fried, and the inside is juicy and soft.
The bars are dipped in an egg, and then in crackers, poured in a separate bowl. To achieve an even layer, the procedure is repeated one more time, and again, only 3 identical breading steps.
You need to fry the product in refined sunflower or corn oil, a third of the pieces should be drowned in it. You should also not overheat the oil, so as not to burn off the sprinkling, and the products do not remain damp from the inside.
Frying breaded suluguni takes about a minute per side. The finished products are laid out on a napkin to remove excess fat. Put on a plate, put on the table with cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce. Can be drizzled over with any sauce you prefer. It is better not to leave the product in a frying pan, so as not to drip.
You can add a flavorful dressing to the recipe. For example, stir adjika and tomato paste (1 or 2 teaspoons each) with an egg, complete the composition with nutmeg, basil and rosemary.
Breaded
Suluguni turns out to be very appetizing if you prepare beer batter for it. From the ingredients they take: wheat flour (250 grams), 300 grams of suluguni, a couple of eggs, dark beer (200 milliliters), some spices and vegetable oil.
Suluguni is cut into medium-sized pieces or bars. The testicles are shaken with a whisk. Salt is not allowed in cooking. Pepper the egg mixture and pour in beer, stir and add flour at once.
While the pan with butter is heating up, the pieces need to be dipped in the batter. Fry properly in hot fat until the dough is golden brown. The finished product is laid out on paper towels to absorb excess oil.
Instead of flour, they sometimes use ground oatmeal, bran, or chopped corn grits.
In pita bread
Georgian cuisine is rich in inventive recipes. For example, a small piece is cut from a pita sheet, from which an envelope is wrapped. It is filled with cheese, cut into pieces or bars. Lavash with suluguni should be fried in a frying pan without oil until a golden brown crust appears, while the fire is set to medium. They get a delicious and easy-to-prepare snack.
You can cut the pita bread into four pieces. Twenty-gram chunks are made from the cheese. Sprigs of greenery are crumbling finely. Wrap the ingredients in a piece of pita bread. Fry the resulting squares for 5 minutes, turning over a couple of times.
Another recipe is a little more complicated. For half a kilogram of cheese you need: thin lavash sheets (from 3 to 5), 3 or 4 tomatoes, cilantro, dill and parsley in bunches.
The cheese is cut into small cubes, and crumbled sprigs of greens are mixed with them. The skin is removed from the tomatoes. Divide them into rings and add a little salt. Each loaf of bread is divided into 2 parts. Stepping back a little from the edge, place 2 or 3 tomato circles on a leaf, sprinkle them with a pinch of herbs and cheese pieces. A semblance of shawarma is wrapped. The pan should be dry and hot. The products are stacked so that the seam is at the bottom. Fry both sides for about a couple of minutes.
With cheese
Cheese breading makes suluguni a doubly incomparable delicacy. To fry a meal, you will need products: white croutons (a full cup), grated Parmesan (30 grams), suluguni (600 grams), a couple of eggs, half a cup of flour, a little ground paprika, black pepper and butter.
Suluguni, cut into pieces or bars, is alternately dipped in flour, in a stirred egg, in a mixture of parmesan, croutons and spices. Fry the product on a heated oil on both sides until a crust appears.
In batter, you can fry a variety of products - fish, meat, vegetables, fruits. Have you tried cheese in batter? If not, then be sure to cook this appetizer, perhaps it will become one of your favorite.
Any hard or semi-hard cheese is suitable for cooking.
- The batter is prepared on the basis of eggs and dairy products, sometimes beer is used as a base. You can add a variety of spices to the batter to your liking.
- You can cut the cheese into pieces of different shapes - plates, cubes, cubes.
- You can make a grated cheese snack by rolling balls out of it. Cheese balls are deep-fried, but cheese sticks and slices can be fried in a little oil. You can also bake the cheese in batter in the oven.
Interesting Facts! As you know, cheese can be served not only for an appetizer, but also for dessert. Cheese in batter is no exception. In France, there is a variant of a cheese dish fried in sweet batter with vanilla or cinnamon.
Fried cheese in batter in a pan
Prepare fried cheese in batter in a frying pan. Any hard cheese is suitable for its preparation.
- 200 gr. cheese;
- 1 egg;
- 50 ml of milk;
- 4 tablespoons of bread crumbs;
- 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
- vegetable oil for frying;
- greens for decoration.
Cut the hard cheese into cubes of equal size. The optimal thickness of the pieces is 2 cm, the length is at your discretion. Pour flour and breadcrumbs mixed with sesame seeds into separate plates. In another container, beat the egg with the addition of milk. Salt the mixture only if the cheese used is unsalted.
Advice! If desired, you can add your favorite seasonings to the batter. For example, dry basil or thyme. You can add a spicy taste to the batter by adding chili peppers to its composition.
Pour oil into the pan so that the height of the oil layer is 1 cm. Let the oil warm up, but do not heat it to the maximum. Roll the cheese cubes in flour, then in an egg-milk mixture, then in breadcrumbs.
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Put the breaded pieces in a frying pan and fry on both sides until golden brown.
Adyghe cheese, breaded
Try to fry the Adyghe cheese in batter, you get a very tasty appetizer. We will cook it in batter and breading.
- 600 gr. Adyghe cheese;
- 4 eggs;
- 4 tablespoons flour;
- 300 gr. bread crumbs;
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 0.5 teaspoon ground black pepper;
- vegetable oil for frying.
Prepare the batter: sift the flour and mix with salt and pepper. You can add any other spices you like. Beat eggs separately and mix with flour. It turns out a pretty batter.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Cut the Adyghe cheese into equal slices. Pour bread crumbs into a separate plate. Dip the pieces of cheese in the prepared batter, then roll in the breading. Immediately put the pieces of cheese in the pan and fry on both sides. As soon as it is browned, it's done.
Cheese in beer batter
Cheese in beer batter is very popular in Bulgaria. It can be served as a beer snack or as a side dish for a main course. You can serve tomato or garlic sauce with this appetizer.
- 350 gr. feta cheese;
- 50 ml soy sauce;
- 2 tablespoons flour;
- 1 egg;
- 1 glass of beer;
- vegetable oil for deep fat.
To prepare this appetizer, you need fresh feta cheese. If you bought too salty feta cheese, then you must first soak it in cold water, periodically changing the water. The soaking time depends on the salinity of the cheese. To make the feta cheese quickly acquire the required taste, it is cut into pieces before soaking.
Put pieces of feta cheese on a plate and pour over soy sauce, mix gently. We leave for 10-15 minutes.
Break the egg into a separate bowl, beat it. Pour in beer, mix. Add flour little by little and knead until the lumps disappear. Pour oil into a cauldron or stewpan in such an amount that the pieces of cheese can be completely immersed in it. Dip the cheese in batter and deep-fry until golden brown.
Deep-fried cheese balls
A beautiful and original appetizer - deep-fried cheese balls. Here is one recipe.
- 200 gr. cheese;
- 2 eggs;
- 50 gr. butter;
- 450 ml of water;
- 500 gr. flour;
- 100 g peeled sunflower seeds;
- 0.5 teaspoon salt.
Put butter and salt in the water, bring the water to a boil. Pour flour into boiling water, stir and remove from heat. As soon as the dough has cooled down a little, beat in eggs one by one and add the grated cheese. We knead. Let the dough rest under a napkin for about half an hour.
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Grind the fried sunflower seeds in a blender until they become fine crumbs. Roll up a sausage from the dough and cut it into pieces, roll out a ball the size of a walnut from each piece. Roll the balls into the crushed seeds. Deep-fry them until golden brown.
Suluguni in batter
Try battering suluguni. Suluguni is a rather salty cheese, so the batter should be salted sparingly.
- 300 gr. suluguni cheese;
- 1 cup flour;
- 2 eggs;
- 200 ml of light beer;
- salt, black pepper, ground paprika to taste.
Sift the flour into a bowl, add salt and spices to the flour, mix. Beat the egg separately, gradually add beer to the beaten egg, stirring constantly. Then add a mixture of flour with spices to the egg-beer mass. Mix everything thoroughly so that not a single lump remains.
Cut the suluguni into slices 0.7-0.8 cm thick. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. Pieces of cheese one by one prick on a fork, dip in batter and put in a frying pan with butter. Fry on both sides until golden brown. Spread the pieces of cheese on napkins to remove excess oil. Serve the appetizer hot, garnished with herbs.
Cooking in the oven
You can cook cheese in batter in the oven, this dish will turn out to be less fatty.
- 200 gr. cheese;
- 1 egg;
- 70 gr. flour;
- 50 gr. sesame;
- vegetable oil for the baking sheet.
Do you want something new, but quick and easy to prepare? Fry the cheese!
Have you tried fried cheese or are you still wondering why to fry a completely ready-to-eat product that has a delicate texture and tends to melt quickly? Just for a change! There are several ways to prepare such a snack. Recipes vary according to the type and use of breading. We have tried to collect here the most popular options that you will definitely like. Set aside your diet and go to the kitchen!
Hard cheese in bread crumbs
For breakfast, instead of pancakes or pancakes, try grilled hard cheese in breadcrumbs. This recipe will help you dispose of food stuck in the refrigerator with benefit and taste. To prepare an amazingly tasty and tender snack you will need:
- 200 grams of hard cheese (for example, Gouda, Kostroma, Poshekhonsky);
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 50 grams of bread crumbs.
- First, cut the cheese into neat cubes about 5 cm long and 1 cm wide (high).
- Beat eggs.
- Prepare breadcrumbs in a deep bowl.
- Dip a slice in eggs, then in crackers.
- Dip the slice into the egg mass again and brew again in breadcrumbs.
It is important that you get a dense, even breading, otherwise the melted contents will start to flow out. To improve the adhesion of the cheese to the egg, you can first dip it in flour.
Breaded fried cheese is prepared very quickly - about a minute on each side. Once you've mastered the basic recipe, you can experiment with spices and herbs.
Cheese snack in batter
Fried cheese in batter turns out to be no less tasty and interesting. Hard varieties (Russian, Mozzarella) are also suitable for this recipe. Prepare:
- 300 grams of hard cheese;
- 2 fresh eggs;
- 2 tablespoons of wheat flour;
- a pinch of curry.
- Whisk eggs, add to curry flour and stir well.
- Cut the cheese into portions.
- Dip the slices in the batter and fry on all sides in vegetable oil until golden brown.
Salting fried cheese in the dough is not worth it, there is already enough salt in it.
Secrets of frying Adyghe cheese
Instead of the usual scrambled eggs, prepare fried Adyghe cheese - it goes well with fresh vegetables and herbs, goes well with coffee and beer. This cheese keeps its shape perfectly during frying, so it can be cooked even without breading, quickly frying from all sides. If you cut the product into neat squares or circles, you get a kind of cheese pancakes.
Adyghe cheese can be cooked in batter and breading according to the recipes published above, we will not repeat ourselves, but we will give another option - in flour. Prepare:
- 350 grams of Adyghe cheese;
- glass of water;
- half a glass of flour;
- salt to taste.
- Mix salt and flour.
- Heat vegetable oil in a nonstick skillet.
- Dip the cheese slices in water and then bread them in flour.
- Fry quickly until golden brown.
If you like this grilled cheese recipe, next time replace the water with white wine.
Fried suluguni - a recipe with a twist
Suluguni is a favorite of fans of Georgian cuisine, which attracts with piquancy. You can cook fried suluguni cheese, as well as hard cheese - in batter or breadcrumbs, as well as Adyghe cheese - in flour or without any preparation. To enhance the taste, add dry adjika or hot spices to the batter or breading. You can use butter for frying.
All grilled cheeses need to be served immediately after preparation, so brew your coffee first, prepare everything you need, and then quickly grill an amazingly delicious snack. Eat carefully so you don't get burned!
There is another universal cooking method - in pita bread. To do this, the pieces are wrapped in pita bread, and after that they are fried. In addition to the main ingredient, you can wrap tomatoes, boiled chicken, sausages, herbs, and a boiled egg inside.
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