Turos Csusza - Dry-Curd Cottage Cheese and Noodles

Submitted by Kathy228

"This is a Hungarian recipe that uses DRY cottage cheese. My mother would make this frequently as I grew up. Tastes great when eaten at a-little-warmer than room temperature."

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 12 ounces wide egg noodles, cooked
• 3 -4 slices bacon, diced
• 3⁄4 cup sour cream
• 12 ounces dry curd cottage cheese
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt (to taste)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
• dill (to garnish, fresh or dried)

directions

1. Using a large pan, cook the diced bacon until crisp; remove bacon from pan and keep warm.
2. On low heat, stir the sour cream into the bacon fat.
3. To the pan, add the noodles, bacon, dry cottage cheese, salt and pepper. Combine gently.
4. On low heat, gently fold the contents until heated through. Adjust seasonings.
5. With lid on pan, let set for half hour before serving. They taste best if not too hot.
6. Garnish with more sour cream and dill if desired.

Reviews

[bethnegrey]

Love this! Must be the Hungarian in me.... I had found a pint carton of Alpenrose dry cottage cheese (Portland OR area dairy), couldn't resist it, and had no idea what to do with it. Hopefully I'll be able to find more as I definitely want to make this many more times. Somehow it tastes like I'm in a European cafe, maybe in Switzerland, Austria, Hungary. Thanks so much!

 

[albigor1]

This dish is very versatile. You can have it sweet or spicy, with fruits, veggies, bacon bits or cracklings.

 

[aniko8]

Oh I miss this from my grandma :( She didn't use dill nor pepper, but as funny as it sounds we ate it with bacon and sugar! You put the sugar right when you serve it! Now if I could just get the BIG CHUNKS of bacon, how they sell it in Hungary, with the skin and everything! YUM