Cottage cheese is a delicious and nutritious dairy product, a source of complete animal protein and calcium. Homemade cottage cheese is quite simple to prepare and much more useful than store-bought.
Instruction manual
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The basis for the preparation of cottage cheese is natural cow's milk, which is by no means pasteurized. From three liters of milk you will receive about 1 kg of cottage cheese, that is, a ratio of three to one. For the first time, you can experiment with a liter of milk so as not to regret the product in case of failure.
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Leave the milk at room temperature, it should turn sour. When a thick clump of white lumps appears in the bank, you can start making cottage cheese. For this state of milk, on average, it takes about two days.
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Too long, sour milk will give too sour cottage cheese. With experience, you will understand when it is best to stop the process and start cooking.
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Pour the sour milk slowly into the pan, without stirring or shaking it. Put the pot on the smallest fire. Heat the milk until the whey separates.
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Boil and overheat milk is not allowed. Otherwise, get "rubber" cottage cheese. After removing the cottage cheese from the stove, let it cool.
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Take a piece of gauze, fold it several times and put in a colander. The edges of the gauze should go beyond the colander.
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The cooled contents of the pan are placed in a colander. If you wish, you can collect the whey in a separate container to prepare a fermented milk drink from it.
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You can’t squeeze the cottage cheese by hand, otherwise it will come out too dry. Tie the gauze into a knot and hang it. Allow the remaining serum to drain naturally.
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As soon as the whey stops dripping with gauze, your cottage cheese is ready. Expand the cheesecloth and lay the cottage cheese.
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Instead of sour milk, you can use kefir or yogurt. The only condition: the lack of artificial colors and other additives in them.
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Keep the resulting product in the refrigerator, as it tends to deteriorate quickly. From home-made cottage cheese, you can also make cheese if you wish.
