Homemade curd cheese is delicious and nutritious. The cooking process is quite simple, so if you want to try homemade cheese, then feel free to get down to business, you will succeed.
It is necessary
- -1 kg of cottage cheese,
- -1 liter of milk,
- -1 egg,
- -100 grams of butter,
- -2 teaspoons of baking soda,
- -0.67 teaspoons of salt.
Instructions
Step 1
Cut off a 100 gram piece of butter and leave to soften at room temperature.
Step 2
Pour a liter of milk into a saucepan (the larger the pan, the better), put it on a low heat. When heating, we follow the milk (stir it), if it runs away, you will have to start all over again.
Step 3
Put 1 kg in boiled milk. cottage cheese, reduce heat to low and cook for five minutes. For homemade cheese, it is better to take 9% cottage cheese, but you can use homemade unleavened cheese - if desired.
Step 4
After separating the whey, discard the curd in a colander. We put two layers of wet gauze in a colander in advance. Then we tie the cheesecloth tightly and squeeze out the rest of the serum. We hang cheesecloth with cottage cheese over a bowl and start with the following ingredients.
Step 5
Put soft butter in a bowl, break the egg, add soda (no need to extinguish), salt and beat. If you want the cheese to turn out more yellow, replace the whole egg with two yolks.
Step 6
Mix cottage cheese without liquid with a beaten mass of butter and eggs. Add some chopped herbs and salt if desired. Stir until smooth.
We transfer the curd mass to a small saucepan.
Step 7
Pour water into a large saucepan and put it on fire, it will be a water bath. Bring the water to a boil and put a pan of cottage cheese in it. Cooking cheese in the bath for 10 minutes. After the cheese begins to melt and becomes viscous, we transfer it to a mold (oiled).
Step 8
We put a press on the cheese and put it in the refrigerator for three hours. We take the finished cheese out of the mold, cut into slices and serve.
