Cheese is a healthy dairy product, without which the life of many of us is unthinkable. Today, there are several dozen types of cheeses. Most of them are prepared from cow's milk, while its fat content plays an important role. It is believed that the more fat milk is used for cooking, the more delicious the cheese will turn out. Of course, in such cheese the calorie content will be very high, and the same varieties that are prepared from low-fat or skim milk, although less calorie, do not taste very good.
Cheeses do not belong to the category of delicacies (unless with the exception of a few types), and yet the prices for it in the store bite a little. Today, however, you can cook delicious cheese at home. Of course, cooking real Dutch, most likely, will not work, but what you can cook at home will turn out to be no less tasty.
And immediately the question arises: how to make homemade cheese. Believe me, this is nothing complicated. All that is required of you is a little patience and a good recipe. By the way, our grandmothers always kept in memory a recipe for homemade cheese, since it was not so simple to buy it several decades ago. But from cow's milk a very tasty and healthy product was obtained, which the whole family loved to feast on.
It's time for you to learn how to cook homemade cheese. There are several ways to prepare it, some of which we will now consider.
Homemade Cheese Recipe N 1
Ingredients: 1 kg of fresh cottage cheese, 0.5 l of milk, 100 g of butter, 1 egg, 2 tsp of soda and 1 tsp of salt.
Preparation: Pour milk into a saucepan and set on fire to boil. Add cottage cheese to boiling milk, make a small fire and continue cooking, do not forget to stir constantly. Cook the cottage cheese and milk until whey appears (i.e. when the milk turns into a yellowish liquid). We take a colander, cover it with gauze, folded in several layers. We put the cottage cheese on cheesecloth, tie the cheesecloth and hang it so that all the whey flows out of the cottage cheese. Save 3-4 tablespoons of whey, then you will extinguish soda in it.
So, while our cottage cheese is draining, beat butter, egg in a bowl and add salt. The baking soda that we quenched with whey is also added to our mixture. It may not be completely homogeneous.
We will melt our cheese in a water bath, so we take a large pot, pour water into it and set to boil. Curd slightly squeeze and mix with our mixture. Mix well with a spoon, and then beat with a blender. We transfer the mixture to the pan and put it in a water bath. Soon, the cheese will begin to melt. Several times it will have to be mixed well so that the butter does not separate. After about 10 minutes, remove the cheese from the stove, transfer it to a deep bowl and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. To prevent it from absorbing other odors from the refrigerator, cover it with another plate or lid.
If this recipe for homemade cheese seemed complicated to you, you can use the following. Cheese made according to this recipe is very similar to "Adygea". It can be eaten with tea or coffee, or used to prepare other dishes.
Homemade Cheese Recipe N 2
Ingredients: 3 liters of milk, 100 g of vinegar, 100 g of salt, 100 g of sugar.
Preparation: Pour milk into a large saucepan and put on medium heat. When the milk boils, reduce the heat, add salt, sugar and vinegar. Increase the heat slightly and let the milk curd. Put the cottage cheese in cheesecloth and hang to a glass serum. When everything drains, put the cottage cheese, without getting from the cheesecloth onto a plate, and squeeze on top with some heavy load. Refrigerate for 3-4 hours. To diversify the cheese and give it a special taste, you can sprinkle it on top with sesame seeds, pepper or something else.