In Belize, where I’m from, rice and beans are staple foods. Coconut milk adds a unique flavor to this wonderful traditional Belizean meal. It pairs well with potato salad or cole slaw and stewed chicken.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 50 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 15 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 3 tablespoons white sugar
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 (16 ounce) container cottage cheese, creamed
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon sour cream
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9×9 inch baking dish.
- In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, butter and sugar. Stir in eggs and milk. In a separate medium bowl, mix cottage cheese, butter, egg, sour cream and salt.
- Place 1/2 the flour mixture in the baking dish. Cover with the cottage cheese mixture, and top with remaining flour mixture.
- Bake 50 minutes in the preheated oven, until puffed and golden brown. Allow to cool slightly, and cut into squares to serve.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 422 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 30 g |
| Cholesterol | 159 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 16 g |
| Saturated Fat | 16 g |
| Sodium | 742 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Fat | 26 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
It is hard to rate this accurately because I’ve never heard of or tried this dish. For ex, if I try a lasagna recipe I rate it as to how it compares to others I’ve tried. This is like a mix between egg custard and a cheesecake perhaps. It is a little bland, but I think it’s supposed to be. I did take other reviewers’ advice and added a dash salt and 1 Tb. Sugar to cottage cheese mixture. I wish I had added the tsp of vanilla as someone suggested. On its own, it would be a 3 out of 5. But by simply adding reduced frozen strawberries (with a couple teaspoons sugar), it was a good dish. Not too heavy, but rich enough. I will try blueberries on it as well as that may give it a little something to liven it up. If I made it again, I would probably bring to a pot luck brunch, but I don’t know that I would crave it enough to make just for us.
Crepes were good but the filling was to runny for me.
I found this casserole to be a bit on the disappointing side. It wasn’t bad exactly…just bland-ish (even with the addition of vanilla and cinnamon). Except for adding those two things, I made the casserole exactly as written. I ended up having to cook it an extra 15 minutes, probably because I live in a high-altitude area. I ate a bowl of this casserole with a generous dollop of strawberry jam on top, and it was pleasant but not quite what I was hoping for. I didn’t feel like I was eating a blintz at all…more like a spoonbread with cottage cheese. I doubt that I will be making this one again.
It did not taste like blintz like you would get at IHOP which is what i had hoped for because I love IHOP’s blintzes.
Soooo good, I made it just as written .
Tastes like grandma’s but a lot less work! Thank you so much for this recipe! I served it to my music group and my husband for lunch today and everyone enjoyed it.
I began with no clear idea of how this should taste so I can’t speak to the authenticity, but it was the star of our Sunday brunch. I used low fat cottage cheese and sour cream and it was still rich and satisfying. The flavor profile was a bit bland for us so I warmed some homemade raspberry preserves and dribbled just a bit of sweetness. Thank you!
The recipe did not turn out well. I layered half of the dough mixture on the bottom of a 9×9 baking dish and then filled with cottage cheese mixture, but was not able to apply a layer of dough on top without mixing it in the cottage cheese mixture. It turned out like a bread with cottage cheese clumps. There was no cheesy filling between two layers of bread. I am not sure what went wrong, but if the top layer of dough actually was placed on top and not mixed in the cottage cheese, it would have been better. Wont make again.
This was delicious! I don’t have a 9X9, so I used an 8×13 and that was fine. I omit the salt and added 2 T of sugar to the filling, and a t of vanilla to the crust. I’ve also made it with regular small curd cottage cheese, instead of creamed and that was good too.
Cut the salt as the reviews said and add sugar. Read reviews!!!!
This stuff I LOVE!!!! I think the original recipe is great, but here is how I did the filling to take it up a notch. I used a 9×13 glass pan and doubled the recipe. I used the recipe for the crust as it was originally printed. Instead of the original filling I used the sour cream,added a 1/2 cup of sugar, a 16 oz carton of marscapone and a 16 oz carton of ricotta with only one egg and a slosh or two of Amaretto, no salt. In between the layers I added some granulated raw sugar and cinnamon. I baked this until I could see that both the top and the bottom crust were cooked. The filling was a bit soft still. NO PROBLEM, by the time this was served it was PERFECT! Then the day after this stuff is like a cheesecake, it is amazing on day two! I also served a sauce with this that was made using peach jam, with some Amaretto and a bit of cranberry sauce. OOO-LA_LA! Amazing! Thanks sooo much for this recipe! I will use it for many occassions.
in spite of adding the vanilla, cinnamon, and extra sugar, my family thought this was still bland. Not a keeper for us.
Surprisingly good. I cut the salt down in the cheese mix and added a 1/2 tsp of sugar per other reviews. I think next time I will use ricotta in place of the cottage cheese. It is tastiest warm (I like it with strawberries) and it reheats well. UPDATE: I made this again, with ricotta and 1/4 cup cottage cheese in place of 16oz of cottage cheese. I added a liberal dash of orange liquer and it really made the cheese part of the dish better, made it taste more like crepes suzette. Yummy!
Love this recipe, I’ve used it three years in a row for my Chanukah party and it always gets raves! Even my mother, who didn’t think you could make a blintz without frying it asked for the recipe. Because I have a sweet tooth, I do, as many others have suggested, add 1 tblsp of Sugar, 1 tspn of vanilla and about 1/2 tspn of cinnamon. Thank you for this one!
Sorry, I did not like this. I work at a Pancake restaurant and LOVE blintzes with fruit. I tried adding fresh strawberries to this, but it was not sweet enough.
We liked this recipe, but I can see how this might not have a broad appeal. However, I didn’t have cottage cheese so I had to use ricotta cheese. It tastes fine, but not anything fantastic.
Very disappointed. Dough was too sticky and where the recipe said “pour” the rest of the dough on top, there is no way you can pour it. Will make this statement though in honesty – Maybe due to the fact that I live in Australia (am American)and had to cook it in a fan-forced oven.
I thought this was terrible. I followed the recipe exactly and it was too salty, unpleasant in texture and otherwise essentially bland. My husband (who likes all food) found it pretty unpleasant and my son wouldn’t eat it at all. Will definitely not make again.
I would rate it with 5 stars, however, I didn’t follow the recipe exactly. Texture is very much something like that of spoon bread or a dense popover. I omitted salt altogether and added a dash of cinnamon and vanilla to both flour and cheese mixtures. Baked perfectly at exactly 50 minutes! Like others, I also made a berry syrup from frozen berries to drizzle/pour over top. Tasted delicious! I will definitely make again for a brunch or as an alternative dessert dish.
This was absolutely amazing. I doubled the recipe and put it into a 13×9 glass pan. I served it to my book group and the raves went on and on. Run ….do not walk to this recipe!!!!
I added sugar to the cheese mixture, vanilla to both, no salt as per reviews, and a fruit layer…just a little bland still. Everyone else loved it, just dusted powdered sugar on top for sweetness…seemed to do the trick sort of….just a little bland really. Also, texture NOT what I expected. All fell apart…the inside mixture is really runny. Still good though. Just not what I was expecting.