Dairy products occupy a special place in human life. Milk is not only protein, calcium, but also a complex of vitamins and lactic acids necessary for the full functioning of our body. Among the whole huge variety of dairy products, the most basic ones can be distinguished - this is milk, sour cream, cottage cheese, butter, cream. By-products of dairy production include whey and buttermilk (skim milk, which is obtained by skimming cream from milk). After churning the butter, a delicious dairy product is also obtained, the Tatars call it “Aryan”, well, maybe someone else calls it that.
I would like to pay special attention to cottage cheese, since among all the foods listed in it there is the highest content of protein and calcium. It is very useful for children and adults, especially for those who have problems with the musculoskeletal system.
Surely many are interested in how to cook cottage cheese at home. It also became interesting to me, so I decided to study this process. Although how to get cottage cheese in an industrial environment, I know from and to, since this is part of my profession. Now I will tell you how to cook cottage cheese at home.
There are many ways, consider the most affordable of them.
1) We need any amount of yogurt fresh or yogurt, I have 1.5 liters of yogurt. We take a large pan, pour a little water into it and bring to a boil. We need it as a water bath. Pour our kefir into a smaller pot and put in a large one. Now we are waiting for the whey to begin to separate, while making sure that the kefir does not boil, otherwise we will get hard cottage cheese. The whole process lasts about half an hour, sometimes a little longer. Then we pour the whole mass onto a large sieve (with small holes), and wait when all the whey drains. You can do otherwise: use a bag of gauze, but here the whey drains longer and the cottage cheese is a little self-pressed. According to this recipe, it turns out to be tender and tasty.
How to cook cottage cheese at home, you now know, consider a method using milk.
2) We need a bag of milk, two tablespoons with sour cream top. Bring the milk to a boil (but do not boil), then cool to room temperature and mix with sour cream. Set at night in a warm place. By morning, get a fermented mixture. We heat it in a water bath and get cottage cheese. Now you can safely teach your family and friends how to make cottage cheese from milk.
In industrial conditions, calcium chloride is used to produce cottage cheese . It contributes to the rapid folding of milk.
In general, by tradition, our grandmothers knew how to cook cottage cheese at home. As a rule, everyone in the village kept a cow. Milk was not always drunk, it turned sour. It was this sour milk of the grandmother that was heated and received cottage cheese, the most natural and homemade. Sometimes milk was specially left to turn sour to cook cottage cheese from it.
Today, few people contain a cow; you can buy milk at any store. Therefore, we can make cottage cheese for ourselves. By the way, wonderful cheesecakes are made from cottage cheese. You can cook various sweet cheesecakes (kids are especially happy about this, and adults are not averse to feasting).
It is good to get cheese from cottage cheese , it is very simple to prepare it. We take our fresh cottage cheese, mix it with salt (whoever wants salt, put more salt in it, who doesn’t really - less). Mix everything like a dough and put it in a mold or a regular plate. Press and wait a couple of days when the cheese ripens. The result is something similar to Adyghe cheese (by the way, by tradition, it is made from sheep’s milk).
As for whey, various drinks can be prepared from it, for example, mix it with sugar, juice of any berries - and a refreshing drink is ready, which goes well in the heat.
Well, now you will definitely give a detailed answer to the question of how to make cottage cheese at home, and how it is useful for our body.