How to cook cottage cheese
You will need - milk, black bread
1. For cottage cheese, it is better to use fresh village milk, but ordinary milk of any fat content is also suitable. You will need 3 liters of milk. Pour them into a jar and dip the brown bread crust there. Insist milk until curdled for about 12 hours.
2. Pour the sour milk into a thick-walled saucepan and heat to 70-80 degrees, stirring occasionally. Then cool the curd.
3. After cooling, fold the curd onto cheesecloth, tie the edges of the cheesecloth with a knot and hang over the pan.
4. Wait until the serum is completely drained.
How to cook
ProductsSour milk - 2 liters (enough for 300-330 grams of cottage cheese)
Colander, 2 pots large and small, cheesecloth
How to cook
Pour the sour milk into a small saucepan, put the saucepan in a saucepan with a large radius.
Pour water into a large saucepan, put on a small fire - the temperature of the water for heating sour milk should be about 70 degrees.
Bring the water to a warm state, but not boiling water, in this state the future cottage cheese should languish for 1 hour. The whey should separate and form a white, dense mass.
Cool the mass slightly for 10 minutes.
Put the mass on cheesecloth folded in 3-4 layers, tie it in a knot and hang it on the kitchen tap - under its own weight the curd will drain in 6-12 hours.
Rub the boiled cottage cheese through a sieve for fillings or cut for serving.
Tips for making homemade cottage cheese
1. Do not overheat, let alone boil sour milk when cooking cottage cheese. Overheated curd will be very hard.2. Keep in mind that 3 liters of milk will yield about 600 grams of finished cottage cheese.
How to cook cottage cheese in a slow cooker?
In a slow cooker, cook the cottage cheese on the "heating" mode for 1 hour.
How to cook cottage cheese in a double boiler?
Cook cottage cheese in a double boiler for 20 minutes.
More delicate cottage cheese is obtained from homemade milk, but even store-pasteurized milk will do.
To heat sour milk evenly, cut it in 4 pieces in a saucepan.
There are quite a few options for hanging cottage cheese, but those that allow you to place a drainage container under the cottage cheese are most suitable:
- On the window handle,
- on the handle of the drawer,
- in a colander over a saucepan.
If there is no sour milk, it is very simple to make it: open ordinary milk and put it on a battery for several hours or in the heat at room temperature for a day. It is very simple to recognize sour milk well: a white mass will float on the surface, and a whitish liquid will form below.
In no case should you squeeze boiled cottage cheese from sour milk so that the cottage cheese does not become tough.