Salted cheese snails - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients for the dough:

• 300 grams of flour
• 230 milliliters of water
• 5-6 spoons with sunflower oil
• salt

Ingredients for the filling:

• 350 grams of cottage cheese
• 2 eggs
• salt

Mix the flour with the water, the sunflower oil and the salt and make a soft non sticky dough. Let it rest at room temperature for 20 minutes.

Spread the dough in seven parts.
Spread each part of dough on the table as thin as you can and add above the cheese (which had been previously mixed with eggs and the salt).

Roll the dough and make a snail.

Repeat the operation with each piece of the dough.

Let the snails rest for 10 minutes at room temperature. Before putting them in the oven brush an egg yolk above them.

Put them in the preheated oven at 180 Celsius degrees for 35 minutes.

Enjoy!

Cheese snails - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of flour
• 250 grams of fresh cheese
• 250 milligrams of milk
• 50 grams of sugar
• 4 eggs
• 3 spoons of sunflower oil
• 15 grams of yeast
• zest from 1 lemon
• rum essence (few milligrams)

Mix the yeast with 1 spoon of sugar and few spoons of warm milk. Let the composition rest for half of an hour.

Mix the flour with 1 egg, the zest from the lemon, the remaining milk, half of the rum essence and salt.

When the dough is ready add the sunflower oil and mix until is well incorporated. Let the dough rest for 40-60 minutes.

Prepare the cheese composition. Mix the cheese with the 2 eggs, and the remaining rum essence.

Make little balls of dough and spread them on the table.

Add the cheese on one side and roll.

Then roll again to look like a snail.

Break the 4th egg and brush the snails with it before putting them in the oven.

Cook at 180 degrees for about 20-25 minutes.
Add some powdered sugar above.

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here.