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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Eastern European >> Russian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In a large bowl, combine the cottage cheese or farmer’s cheese, sugar, cream cheese, and egg yolks, stirring to mix. | 2. In batches, process the mixture in a food processor, adding an equal amount of cream to each batch, until completely smooth. Transfer back to the bowl. | 3. Stir in the ground almonds, lemon zest, lemon extract, and vanilla extract. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and add them to the cheese mixture along with the raisins. Mix thoroughly. | 4. Line a clean, unused 8 cup flower pot with a double layer of rinsed and squeezed dry cheesecloth. Spoon the cheese mixture into the lined pot, then fold the ends of the cheesecloth neatly over the top. Place a saucer on the cheesecloth, then a 2 pound weight, such as a can, on the saucer. Put the flower pot in a bowl large enough for the liquid to drain into. Refrigerate for at least 12 hours. | 5. Empty the bowl. Unmold the paskha onto a serving plate and carefully remove the cheesecloth. Decorate with candied fruit, pressing some of the fruit into the paskha to form the letters XB, which stands for Khristos voskres (“Christ has risen”). | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
cottage cheese	2	lbs		885.922	30.5553	100.525	38.8721
sugar	1 1/2	cups		1208.97	302.394	0.0	0.0
cream cheese	8	ounces	cut	669.06	7.938	16.1028	64.8648
hard egg yolk	6		cooked crumbled	-	-	-	-
heavy cream	1 1/2	cups		612.0	4.9319999999999995	5.112	64.944
almond	3/4	cup	ground	1445.34	0.0	0.0	163.5
lemon zest	1/2		grated	-	-	-	-
lemon extract	1	teaspoon		0.94	0.32	0.03	0.006
vanilla extract	1/2	teaspoon		6.047999999999999	0.2656	0.0013	0.0013
vanilla bean	1			6.047999999999999	0.2656	0.0013	0.0013
golden raisin	1/2	cup		249.15	65.604	2.7968	0.3795
fruit			chopped candied	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.