Women who are on a diet prefer to choose healthy and nutritious cheeses with a minimum fat content, since some nutritionists recommend eating a cheese product with a fat content of less than 5%. These cheeses are most often sold in expensive grocery stores or large hypermarkets.
Types of cheeses
Cheeses with a fat content of 5% include such brands as Valio Polar, Grunlander, Fitness, Cheese Home, House in the Village, as well as feta cheese and granular cottage cheese. Chechil cheese is similar in consistency to Georgian suluguni cheese, but it is a braid of dense fibrous threads that contain a large amount of salt and are often sold smoked. Low-fat cheeses "Grunlander", "Fitness" and Valio Polar contain about 148 kcal.
When buying low-fat cheeses, you need to carefully read the packaging, since some of them may contain 5% not fat, but yogurt.
Light cheese or feta-light is considered a dietary product - unlike ordinary cheese with a high percentage of fat, it can be safely added to various salads and used as a snack. Granular curd is a reduced-fat type of homemade curd that is sold as a curd grain mixed with a lightly salted fresh cream. It is usually used as an independent full-fledged dish, and various salads with the addition of vegetables are prepared from granular cottage cheese.
5% Fat Cheese Recipe
If cheese with 5% fat is difficult to get, you can make it at home. This will require 1 kg of low-fat cottage cheese, a glass of fresh milk, half a teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of butter, and 1 raw egg. However, teaspoons of salt and oil may not be quite full. Put the cottage cheese in a saucepan, pour over it with preheated hot milk and cook for ten minutes.
At first, cottage cheese with milk will give a large amount of liquid - do not worry, it should be so.
The resulting curd mass must be transferred to a sieve and allowed to drain off excess liquid. Then put it in a bowl and add butter, egg, soda and salt there. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed and boiled again for ten minutes. In this case, the mass must be constantly stirred until it thickens and begins to stretch. After that, the mass is laid out in a deep dish or plate, oiled with olive oil, and pressed on top. The result is a dietary cheese with a fat content of up to 5%, into which, if desired, you can add a little greens or caraway seeds, after which it can be used with coffee or salads.
