Everyone knows about the benefits of cottage cheese since childhood. But if in childhood we ate it under duress, then at adulthood we eat it with pleasure. Most likely, now you are unlikely to be able to buy a natural product, but if you really want it, you can cook the cottage cheese at home. This is easier than it sounds. And how many different dishes can be prepared from natural cottage cheese!
Kefir cottage cheese at home
When cooking cottage cheese, no difficulty arises. This does not take much time, which any hostess will be happy about. The preparation of this natural product will require no more than an hour, from which it takes about 15 minutes to work, no more.
- Pour kefir into a pan, put it on a fire and heat the contents of the temperature to 60-70 ° C. After that, the whey will gradually begin to separate from the cottage cheese.
- Gently mix the contents.
- Then we take a colander, cover it with gauze in 3-4 layers and pour out the contents of the pan.
- Leave the cottage cheese in a colander for one hour to let the whole whey glass.
- Next, we put the resulting mass on a plate, mix it with finely chopped herbs, salt - and homemade cottage cheese is ready.
If you want to serve cottage cheese as a treat, add sugar instead of salt and greens.
Sweet yogurt cottage cheese can be served with any sweet filling: fruit syrup, condensed milk, jam, nuts, wild berries, fruits, and so on.
Cottage cheese at home from frozen kefir
The essence of this technology is almost no different from the usual formula, but from the frozen kefir, the curd turns out to be unusually light and airy.
The cooking process is as follows:
- Put the package of kefir in the freezer and leave it there for 6-7 hours. This time is enough to freeze kefir.
- After the specified time, remove the packaging from the freezer, remove the frozen mass from it and transfer it to a colander, which is already located on a deep bowl.
- It will take all the serum to go away, so we leave this mass for another 6 hours, but at room temperature. After 6 hours, delicious and healthy kefir cottage cheese in the freezer can be safely eaten!
Homemade cottage cheese in a water bath
We offer another simple way how to get tasty and healthy cottage cheese. Let's make it in a water bath.
We boil water in a pan, put a bowl of kefir on top, heat for half an hour, mix.
We cover a clean, dry bowl with gauze, as indicated above, or with a fine sieve and pour the cooked kefir. Leave until all whey drains.
After that, we transfer the resulting mass to a plate. Frozen kefir cottage cheese is ready.
If your child refuses to eat cottage cheese, then try making cottage cheese cakes, pancakes, cheesecakes, muffins and so on.
Homemade cottage cheese from milk
To cook homemade cottage cheese from milk and kefir, you need to do the following:
- We take milk and kefir in a ratio of 1: 1. It is recommended to add milk at room temperature.
- Pour it into a pot or slow cooker. Add salt to taste. Do not forget to stir, because it can burn.
- When bubbles appear on the milk, pour the kefir. You need to turn it off when the serum begins to separate.
- We wait 15-20 minutes for the ingredients to mix and form serum.
- Then you need to warm up the resulting consistency again, not forgetting to stir. After some time, we see how large grains of cottage cheese mixed in serum are obtained.
- Next, we transfer it to a very fine sieve or gauze to make glass serum.
- If you want to get dry and dense cottage cheese, then wring it out manually. Or leave it for a while, let it reach the desired consistency.
- When it seems to you that this is enough, put the curd mass on a plate.
- Curd is ready to eat
Fritters with cottage cheese on kefir
This simple and incredibly aromatic dish will be the best solution as a breakfast.
Distribute the cottage cheese on a plate, grind it with an egg, sugar and salt. Curd should be taken dry and crumbly. If the cottage cheese is watery, when added sugar, it will give excess water. You may need more flour.
Sift flour with soda. Gradually add flour to the curd, carefully rubbing everything with a fork. After pouring a glass of flour, add 200 g of kefir, then again a glass of flour and the same amount of kefir.
Beat the dough with a mixer and heat the pan. Pour in vegetable oil so that the pancakes almost float in it. Otherwise, they will be dry. Sauté pancakes over medium heat on both sides. After frying, it is advisable to lay them on paper towels so that they absorb the excess oil.
Cooking secrets
The way how to make cottage cheese from kefir, like any other products, has its own characteristics, which every housewife should know about. Let's talk about them a little more, so that at the time of preparation you were fully armed.
You can get cottage cheese not only from fresh kefir. Curd from sour kefir is no worse. The principle of preparation is exactly the same as from fresh.
To make cottage cheese for a small child, you need to remember several features:
- kefir should be taken uniform in composition;
- curd from sour kefir is not suitable for infants, you need only fresh;
- if you want to add fruit, then first you need to carefully chop them with a blender.
The fat content of cottage cheese depends on the fat content of kefir. The more fat is contained in kefir, the higher the calorie content of the product. Usually they use kefir with a fat content of at least 3%.