The favorite product for breakfast is cottage cheese and its analogues. These products are provided in a wide range. There are many variations of this product with different tastes: mushrooms, salmon, herbs, etc. Note: in high-quality cottage cheese, there should be exclusively natural additives, i.e. pieces of fish, mushrooms, herbs. With the inclusion of artificial flavors and synthetic fillers, the benefit of such a valuable product can be reduced to "no." In our today's material, we will present the types, composition of cheese and calorie content.
Characteristic
Curd cheese is completely unlike its other brothers in semi-solid or hard varieties. It has a soft, delicate texture, it is easily spread on bread or a bun. In its structure, this cheese is more like cottage cheese. Both of these products have similar properties, unlike other cheeses, they do not go through the ripening stage.
Curd Cheese: Composition
In a natural product cream or milk, salt, milk sourdough should be indicated. If different types of preservatives or flavor enhancers are indicated on the package, such a product should be discarded. In the composition of high-quality cheeses of this type in sufficient quantity is valuable animal protein, as well as a host of other, no less useful natural substances. 100 g of cheese contains 10% calcium and 20% phosphorus from the daily allowance that a person needs daily. As for the calorie content of cottage cheese, then per 100 g there is an average of 317 kcal. However, this indicator can vary in one direction or another, depending on what flavorings were included in the product.
How to choose the right
Ideally, a quality product should be gentle and uniform in consistency. The presence of serum in it, and even more mold on the surface, indicates that the curd cheese is of poor quality or spoiled. If the package indicates that the product is termized, this means that it has received special heat treatment and can be stored for a long time (up to 4 months) without changing consumer and quality characteristics.
Types of Curd Cheeses
Such a product has a pasty or curd texture. Freshly made cheeses are practically not squeezed out and are not aged. They have a rather delicate texture. Currently, there are a large number of different varieties that are created by Russian cheese-makers or brought to Russia from other countries. The most famous representatives of cottage cheese:
- ricotta
- Mozzarella;
- feta;
- mascarpone.
Ricotta
Cheese made in the best traditions of Italian cheese making. It is produced from fresh milk from cows. From Italian, the word “ricotta” is translated as “newly boiled”, which gives an idea of the cooking method. After the mass is removed from the serum, some of the pieces from the clot still remain. A further technological process proceeds as follows: the whey is boiled again until the pieces rise to the surface. After that, they are removed from the serum, left to ripen for several days. Young ricotta cheese has a velvety, slightly sour taste. In Friol, this cheese is usually smoked. Some of the most popular varieties of this cheese, in addition to the milk mixture, include pepper and herbs. The calorie content of ricotta cheese 174 kcal / 100 g.
Feta
This cheese is prepared according to traditional Greek recipes. To get real cheese, only sheep’s milk should be taken . According to an old recipe, milk just dispensed was poured into a bag from a goat’s stomach, and resin from fig tree branches was added to it. Today, in the preparation of using fermentation for faster curdling milk. After the whey is drained, the wet mass is placed in linen bags and pressed. When the mass is dry, it is cut into pieces and placed in brine. The calorie content of such cheese is 264 kcal / 100 g.
Mozzarella
This unusually delicious Italian cheese is made from buffalo milk. Curdled milk is placed in warm water, where it becomes very elastic and ultimately breaks up into fibers, which, in turn, when they are placed in hot water, are rolled up into balls. This is what mozzarella cheese looks like. It has a snowy white hue, sour taste and smell of milk. Such cheese is placed and stored in whey or brine, but its shelf life is rather short. Some cheese-makers prefer to smoke this cheese, thereby prolonging its storage. In the modern world, it is customary to prepare this cheese from cow's milk, but its taste has nothing to do with mozzarella made from buffalo milk. The calorie content of cottage cheese is 280 kcal per 100 g of product.
Mascarpone
This product is fresh cream cheese, which has no analogues in the world. It is soft, oily, more like butter. Cheese has a very delicate, amazing taste and is considered ideal for preparing a wide variety of dishes, such as a dessert like tiramisu. Its calorie content is 412 kcal / 100 g.
Creamy
Khokhland Kremette is one of the cream cheeses with a light delicate taste and interesting structure. It includes cottage cheese, pasteurized milk, milk-clotting enzyme, bacterial sourdough. It should not contain any flavorings or harmful additives. The calorie content of the “Hohland Kremette” is 297 kcal. Curd cheese is widely used in cooking and confectionery. Its taste goes well with the taste of fish. Due to the fact that it can easily be given the necessary shape, it is often used to make rolls.
With greens
Hochland curd cheese with herbs has long been found in the market for its consumers. The product has a very delicate, textured curd and creamy consistency, an unusually rich aroma and pleasant taste with a barely noticeable curd acidity. Cheese is excellently smeared, does not spread and retains its shape. Sold in plastic packaging with a lid under which there is a foil. This product can be stored for up to 4 months, open packaging must be used within a week, when stored in the refrigerator. The composition of cottage cheese with greens includes milk (cream), cottage cheese, bacterial sourdough, a special enzyme of microbial origin, salt, vegetables, milk powder, onion essence, citric acid. The product contains vitamins and minerals. Calorie cheese per 100 g of product 212 kcal.
Its use can provoke allergic reactions due to the fact that it contains milk protein. In addition, it is quite high in calories, so it should be consumed in moderation. Cottage cheese is used as a snack in combination with vegetables.