Lavash Cheesecake with Pear

Baking and Desserts | Turkmenistan cuisine

⏳ Time

1 hour

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Any cheesecake is a small celebration the size of a baking tray. It resembles a cheese casserole but is three times more elegant and delicious. And when you combine the creamy cheese filling with grated pear, it sparks a bright idea in your mind and creates a lasting attachment. Meanwhile, the thin lavash, unlike a thick sponge cake base, makes this substantial dessert so light and airy that it feels like eating sweet air wrapped in a thin, elastic shell.

Ingredients

Armenian Lavash - 2 pieces
Cottage cheese - 10 oz
Sour Cream - 5 oz
Semi-soft cream cheese - 5 oz
Pears - 3 pieces
Sugar - 5 oz
Butter - to taste
Walnuts - 0 oz
Chicken Egg - 1 piece
Cream - 0 fl oz
Cocoa Powder - to taste

Step by Step guide

Step 1

In a bowl, combine the cottage cheese with mascarpone and sour cream, and blend with an immersion blender until smooth and free of lumps.

Step 2

Grate the pear separately and mix it with sugar.

Step 3

Add the pear with the cheese mixture.

Step 4

Chop the nuts finely.

Step 5

Whisk the egg together with the cream in a separate bowl.

Step 6

Grease a rectangular baking dish with butter. Place a piece of lavash in it, folding the edges as you would for achma.

Step 7

Spread about a third of the cottage cheese filling over the top of the lavash, sprinkle with nuts, and cover with the free part of the lavash sheet, allowing for some folds to remain. Brush the top layer of lavash with egg.

Step 8

Do the same with the second lavash — create 2 more layers on the pie.

Step 9

Brush the top of the lavash with beaten egg, then cut the pie—doing this after baking will be nearly impossible. Place the pie in a preheated oven at 355°F for 25–30 minutes.