Homemade cottage cheese

Homemade cottage cheese is a simple, tasty and very healthy product. Cheese is prepared from good cottage cheese faster than from milk, since the main ingredient of the cheese is already ready. The process of making cheese is simple: cottage cheese with the addition of fermented milk products is heated, separated from the whey and then melted.

How to make cottage cheese from cottage cheese at home?

An option for delicious homemade cheese would be curd cheese made from cottage cheese, but only from a natural product, not a curd product. In consistency, cheese made from cottage cheese differs from cooked cheese from milk, and is more like processed cheese, so it can be used for baking. To taste, you can add herbs, garlic, spices, mushrooms and nuts to the hot cheese. We melt the cheese in milk to emphasize its creamy flavor, but you can also melt it in water to reduce calories.

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   How to make cheese from cottage cheese at home? Immediately prepare all ingredients for making cheese in the quantities specified in the recipe. Take fresh and good quality products.
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   Place the cottage cheese in a saucepan with a thick bottom and pour 1 liter of milk or water into it. Then put it on medium heat and heat the curd mass while constantly stirring with a spatula.
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   When the milk begins to boil, turn the heat to minimum and cook the mixture for several minutes until it is completely separated into whey and cheese flakes. Line a colander or sieve with a piece of gauze and pour the cooked cheese mixture onto it.
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   In a separate bowl, mix two chicken eggs with salt and baking soda with a fork.
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   Transfer the strained cheese mass into another saucepan and place it in a water bath (in a large saucepan with hot water). Melt the butter in the cheese mixture and then pour the egg mixture into it in a thin stream and mix vigorously. Cook the cheese in a water bath for 5 minutes with constant stirring so that there are no large lumps of cottage cheese.
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   Then transfer the hot cheese to any bowl, cover it with cling film and grease it with oil. Cottage cheese from cottage cheese is ready. Place it in the refrigerator for 1.5 hours, then you can serve it.

Bon appetit and happy cooking!

A simple and delicious recipe for processed cottage cheese

You can quickly make processed cheese from cottage cheese at home, which is distinguished by its viscous, smooth consistency and rich taste. In order for the cottage cheese to melt, you need special salts - melters, and at home they are replaced with baking soda. But to get the melting effect, soda needs lactic acid, so the cottage cheese must be sufficiently sour, otherwise it will not melt.This cheese is best prepared using homemade cottage cheese from fermented milk products.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Portions: 5.

Ingredients:

• Homemade cottage cheese – 0.5 kg.
• Butter – 100 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. To prepare processed cheese from cottage cheese, you need a steam bath, since melting occurs at a temperature of 75–95 ° C and this cannot be done over an open fire. Take a large saucepan and, filling it halfway with water, bring the water to a boil.

2. Place the cottage cheese in a metal bowl or other small saucepan. Cut the butter, kept at room temperature, into pieces and add to the cottage cheese.

3. Then break one chicken egg into it, add a teaspoon of baking soda and add salt to your taste. Soda, having reacted with lactic acid, will be our cottage cheese melter.

4. To speed up the cheese melting process, mix these ingredients with a blender or mixer until smooth.

5. Then place this dish with the curd mass in a steam bath so that it does not come into contact with boiling water, but is located above the hot steam. While actively stirring this mass with a spatula, cook it until it becomes viscous. At this point, you can add any toppings you like to the cheese.

6. When the entire curd mass acquires the desired viscous texture, remove it from the bath and transfer it to any form.

7. Cool the prepared processed cottage cheese at room temperature and then put it in the refrigerator, where it can be stored for 10 days.

8. You can add this cheese to sauces, soups, pasta, or simply spread it on bread.

Good luck in cheese making!

Homemade goat cheese

Many people are currently quite skeptical about cheeses based on goat's milk, citing an unpleasant taste and pungent aroma, but, nevertheless, there are many recipes for its preparation. Goat cheese is completely absorbed by the body, and this product is hypoallergenic, which is important for baby and dietary nutrition. Using this recipe we make cheese from goat cottage cheese.

Cooking time: 8 ocloc'k.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Portions: 4 (200 gr.).

Ingredients:

• Goat cottage cheese – 0.5 kg.
• Goat milk – 0.5 l.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Soda – ½ tsp.
• Salt – ½ tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Place the goat's curd in a heavy-bottomed or non-stick pan and pour milk over it. Then place the pan on medium heat and, stirring constantly, cook the curd mass until it is completely separated into whey and cheese flakes.

2. Break an egg into a separate bowl, add half a teaspoon of soda and salt to it and beat well with a whisk. The soda will be the melting salt after it reacts with the lactic acid of the goat's curd.

3. Place the finished cheese mixture in a colander lined with gauze and strain it thoroughly. Then transfer the resulting mass into the same pan. Add a piece of butter to it and put it on low heat.

4. Pour the beaten egg into the cheese in a thin stream and stir immediately.

5. Cook the cheese, stirring constantly and vigorously, for 20 minutes until it acquires a smooth, chewy texture.

6. Place the hot cheese tightly in a greased container and refrigerate for 7–8 hours.

7. Goat cheese is ready. You can serve it with a slice of fresh bread.

Bon appetit!

Homemade Adyghe cottage cheese

Adyghe cottage cheese is easy to make with your own hands. It turns out more tender and there is more finished product than from milk alone. This cheese is similar to feta cheese, mozzarella and feta, but is prepared at high temperature (cooked). To make Adyghe cheese tasty and healthy, you need to choose high-quality products and correctly follow the preparation technology.

Cooking time: 3 hours.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Portions: 1 kg.

Ingredients:

• Cottage cheese 9-18% – 1 kg.
• Milk 3.5% – 1 l.
• Butter – 100 gr.
• Egg – 3 pcs.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Salt – 1.5 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. To cook Adyghe cheese, take a pan with a thick bottom so that the milk does not burn and spoil the taste. Boil a liter of fresh milk in it and add cottage cheese to it.

2. Cook the cottage cheese in milk, stirring occasionally, for 25–30 minutes from the start of boiling and over medium heat.

3. Then, after this time, place the cheese mass in a colander or sieve lined with gauze folded in 2-3 layers. After some time, all the whey will drain.

4. Then transfer the resulting cheese mass into the same pan. Add a piece of butter to it, break three chicken eggs and add salt and soda. Soda is added only to make the cheese porous and does not affect its taste.

5. Mix the cheese mixture with these ingredients well and place the pan over medium heat. Cook the cheese with continuous stirring for 10 minutes.

6. Grease the container for the finished cheese with butter. Then place the cooked cheese into it and smooth its surface with a spoon. Adyghe cottage cheese is ready. Place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours, where it will keep well for up to 10 days.

7.After 2 hours, turn the prepared cheese out of the container onto a plate and serve.

Bon appetit and good luck with your cheese making!

Homemade creamy cottage cheese

Homemade cream cheese from cottage cheese is easy to prepare and has many advantages over cheese from the store, since only high-quality and fresh products are taken, and no chemicals are added to the cheese. With a little culinary inspiration, you can delight your family with a real delicacy. If you use low-fat dairy ingredients for cheese, you will get a dietary product.

Cooking time: 1 day.

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Portions: 1 kg.

Ingredients:

• Homemade cottage cheese – 1 kg.
• Milk 3.5% – 1 l.
• Butter – 100 gr.
• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Soda – ¾ tsp.
• Salt – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Pour milk into a saucepan with a thick bottom or Teflon coating and heat it almost to a boil. Then add the cottage cheese to the milk and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring the mixture occasionally with a spoon. During this time, the cottage cheese should melt and become a little viscous.

2. Then place this hot cheese mass in a colander lined with gauze folded in several layers. The whey will drain in 5 minutes, but you can press the mass down a little with your hand. The whey can be used for home baking.

3. Then transfer the resulting clot of cheese into the same pan and add the remaining ingredients, eggs, butter, soda and salt. Using a spoon, or preferably your hand, mix everything well until smooth.

4. Now the resulting mass needs to be melted. You can do this in a water bath, but it takes twice as long, so put the pan on medium heat.Stirring constantly, bring the mass to the first signs of melting and then cook for 7 minutes. The cheese mass should lag behind the walls of the pan and reach for the spoon. Transfer the cooked cheese to any container, cool at room temperature and then put in the refrigerator for a day.

5. Experienced cheese makers claim that such cheese should gain strength within 24 hours. Cream cheese from cottage cheese is ready. You can beautifully cut into slices and serve.

Bon appetit!

Homemade cheese made from cottage cheese, milk and eggs

The choice of cheeses in the store is large and you can also make different cheeses at home, because it all depends on the base of the cheese (milk, cottage cheese or cream) and the curdling agent (rennet, lemon, sourdough or sour cream). For example, with milk with lemon or whey you will get “Adygei”, and with sourdough you will get “Suluguni”. In this recipe we cook hard cheese in milk with cottage cheese. To this cheese add an egg, butter and soda. The cheese is prepared quickly.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Portions: 500 gr.

Ingredients:

• Cottage cheese – 700 gr.
• Milk – 1 liter.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Salt – 2 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Immediately prepare all ingredients for making cheese in the quantities specified in the recipe. It’s better to take homemade cottage cheese, since store-bought cottage cheese may not melt.

2. Place the cottage cheese in a saucepan with a thick bottom and knead it well with a fork until it forms fine crumbs. Then pour milk into the cottage cheese and put it on low heat. With constant stirring, keep the cottage cheese and milk on the fire until it separates into whey and cheese mass.

3. Cover a colander with gauze folded in 2 layers and throw the contents of the pan onto it. The serum will drain quickly.

4.Then in the same pan, melt a piece of butter, add the strained cheese mass to it, beat in the egg and sprinkle in salt and soda. Place the pan on medium heat and stir this mass vigorously. It should be thick enough. With constant stirring, cook the cheese until the entire mass becomes homogeneous and viscous. The pan can be removed from the heat periodically to prevent the cheese from burning.

5. Then transfer the hot cheese into a mold lined with cling film, cover it with the edges of the film and leave until it cools.

6. Cheese made from milk, cottage cheese and eggs is ready. It always turns out tender and tasty.

Bon appetit!

Chocolate processed cheese from cottage cheese

Chocolate cream cheese made from cottage cheese will be a tasty and healthy dessert for you, especially for children. It cooks quickly, hardens quickly, although it is always liquid at first, and tastes similar to the famous Nutella. Cocoa can be replaced with any chocolate, but it is better to use homemade cottage cheese so that it melts well. Cook the cheese in a steam bath.

Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Portions: 350 gr.

Ingredients:

• Homemade cottage cheese – 200 gr.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp. l.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Sugar – 50 gr.
• Soda – 0.5 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. First of all, prepare all the ingredients for the cheese in the proportions indicated in the recipe.

2. Put cottage cheese in a metal dish (bowl), because we will steam it.

3. Add two tablespoons of cocoa to it. If we take chocolate, then grind it on a coarse grater.

4. Then put the butter, softened at room temperature, into a bowl and break the egg. You can add more or less oil, depending on the fat content of the cottage cheese.

5. Then add soda and two tablespoons of sugar to the cottage cheese.When using chocolate, sugar can be omitted.

6. Using an immersion blender, grind these ingredients to a smooth, uniform texture.

7. Then place this curd mass in a bowl over the steam from boiling water in a saucepan so that the bottom of the bowl does not touch the boiling water.

8. While constantly stirring with a spoon, cook this mass until the cottage cheese is completely melted.

9. Then leave the prepared processed chocolate cheese at home temperature for 40 minutes so that it hardens. We store this cheese in the refrigerator.

Bon appetit and happy cooking!

How to make homemade cheese from cottage cheese with herbs?

An ideal breakfast or dinner would be homemade cottage cheese with herbs. Cottage cheese purchased in a store often leaves much to be desired, so you are encouraged to prepare it for cheese yourself to remain confident of good quality. We prepare cottage cheese from milk and kefir, and add fresh herbs and cumin to the cheese.

Cooking time: 7 o'clock.

Cooking time: 40 minutes.

Portions: 6.

Ingredients:

• Full-fat kefir – 1 l.
• Milk – 1 l.
• Egg – 6 pcs.
• Salt – 2 tsp.
• Chili pepper – 1/3 tsp.
• Dill – 1 bunch.
• Cumin – ½ tsp.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. First of all, prepare the ingredients indicated in the recipe for making cheese, so that everything is at hand.

2. Pour kefir and milk into a thick-bottomed pan, stir and place on low heat to heat.

3. In a separate bowl, use a whisk (not a mixer) to beat six chicken eggs with salt.

4. Pour the egg mixture into hot milk in a thin stream, mix well and cook for several minutes until the milk ingredients are completely curdled.

5. Then turn off the heat and leave the mixture on the stove for 5-10 minutes.We cover a colander with gauze folded in several layers and pour the hot curd mass onto it. The whey from the cottage cheese will drain quickly.

6. Add cumin, chili pepper, ground pepper and finely chopped green dill to the cheese mixture remaining in the colander.

7. Then mix the cheese with seasonings and herbs well with a spoon.

8. We tie the edges of the gauze tightly and place any weight on top of the cheese. Place the cheese under load in the refrigerator for 6 hours.

9. After this time, homemade cottage cheese with herbs will be ready. Carefully remove it from the gauze and transfer it to a plate.

10. Then cut into any pieces and serve for breakfast or dinner.

Bon appetit!