Cottage cheese Easter with raisins without baking

Take a deep-bottomed saucepan. Place cottage cheese, sugar, sour cream, eggs in it and add a bag of vanillin. Mix all ingredients with a hand blender. For Easter, it's best to use homemade dairy products. From them, Easter is very dense and tasty. Add the zest of one orange to the curd mass. It is very convenient to rub it on a special fine grater. At the same time, be careful not to touch the white part of the orange peel, because it is bitter. Place the saucepan with the curd mass on the stove and, stirring constantly, heat over low heat. If you have a culinary thermometer, then while measuring the temperature of the curd mass, bring it to 80 ° C. If there is no thermometer, then wait until the mass becomes hot, but do not boil it.

Remove the saucepan from heat and cool the curd mass to room temperature. To do this faster, place the saucepan in a large bowl of cold water and, while stirring, wait until the mixture has cooled. You can also gradually add ice cubes to the water so that it does not heat up.

Rinse the raisins and soak them in warm water for 5-10 minutes. Slice the nuts at this time. You can use any nuts you like. For example, walnuts, pecans, or hazelnuts are great. Discard the swollen raisins in a colander so that the glass water, and then blot with paper towels. Pour the prepared raisins and chopped nuts into the curd mass and stir.

If you have a special Easter form for the pastoralist, then use it. If there is no pasochny, then you can do just fine with the help of a regular colander. Place it on a saucepan, cover with gauze folded in several layers.

Place the curd mass in a colander covered with gauze and cover it with the free ends of the gauze. Place a plate of a suitable size on top, on which place the weight. Usually, a regular liter can of water or a can with a roll is used. Put the resulting structure in the refrigerator and leave it there for a day. It is advisable to periodically drain the liquid that will collect in the pan.

After the indicated time, remove the Easter cottage cheese from the refrigerator, remove it from the mold or colander. Remove the gauze. Place Easter on a plate and decorate as you wish. You can serve cottage cheese Easter with raisins to the table.