Cheese is a source of a large number of nutrients. However, buying this product in the store, you can not be completely sure of its quality and benefits. If such doubts often arise, then it is better to make homemade cheese from cottage cheese and milk, which is distinguished by its ease of preparation, satiety and nutritional value.

Basic recipe for cottage cheese and milk

To cook cheese, using the basic recipe, it is enough to have in the refrigerator and in the kitchen cabinet:

  • 200 g of cottage cheese;
  • 200 ml of milk;
  • egg;
  • a piece of oil;
  • 3 g of soda;
  • a pinch of salt.

How to cook cheese at home:

  1. Milk is poured into the pan, which is placed on the stove.
  2. Cottage cheese is placed in the liquid.
  3. With constant stirring, the mass is brought to a boil and left on the hot burner for another 5 minutes.
  4. After acquiring transparency with whey, the curd is reclined in a colander covered with gauze.
  5. The liquid drains completely.
  6. In a stewpan with a thick bottom, cottage cheese, egg, soda, salt and softened butter are placed.
  7. With continuous stirring, the cheese is cooked for about 5 to 7 minutes, until the mass becomes soft and begins to separate seamlessly from the walls of the stewpan.
  8. The cheese is laid out in a silicone mold and sent for 2 to 3 hours in the refrigerator, where it is placed under the press.

Hard cheese

Thanks to the use of such a fermented milk product as cottage cheese, homemade hard cheese is prepared very quickly and simply.

You will need:

  • 1 kg of cottage cheese;
  • ½ liter of milk;
  • 5 g of salt;
  • 3 g of soda;
  • egg.

In the process of creating a cheese product, the following actions are performed:

  1. Cottage cheese is laid out in a bowl where it is filled with hot milk.
  2. The mass is simmered for about 10 minutes, and then discarded on a gauze-covered colander.
  3. The curd preparation in the bowl is mixed with the remaining ingredients, and then returned to the pan, which is placed on the fire.
  4. Cheese is cooked until a viscous consistency is obtained for about 10 minutes with constant stirring, so as not to burn.
  5. The cheese mass is laid out in a form that is set under oppression in the refrigerator.
  6. After 8 hours, the solid cheese product is ready to be consumed or used to create a variety of dishes.

Cream cheese

Homemade cream cheese is ideal for making sandwiches for tea.

It will be required:

  • 1 kg of cottage cheese;
  • 1 liter of milk;
  • 100 g butter;
  • 5 g of soda and salt;
  • egg.

Cooking homemade cheese consists of a number of simple steps:

  1. Milk is poured into the container, which is brought on the fire to the appearance of bubbles.
  2. At this time, cottage cheese is sent to the milk, which, with constant stirring, is cooked until folded.
  3. The resulting curd mass is laid out in cheesecloth, which allows the liquid to drain.
  4. Curd, soda, salt, softened butter are mixed in a bowl.
  5. The mixture is cooked in a pan with a thick bottom for 10 minutes.
  6. An egg is added to the cheese removed from the fire, after which everything is thoroughly mixed and sent in the form to the refrigerator.

Homemade goat cheese and milk cheese

A cup of morning coffee with a slice of fresh, crispy bun covered with a plate of salted goat cheese is an excellent breakfast that gives an easy start to a working day.

To make cheese you need:

  • 2 liters of goat curd;
  • 30 ml sour cream;
  • 2 kg of goat milk;
  • salt.

A step-by-step instruction is the following steps:

  1. Half the milk is poured into a pan and heated to 50 ° C.
  2. The rest of the milk is mixed with cottage cheese.
  3. The curd mass is rubbed with a fork until smooth.
  4. When a uniform structure is obtained, the crushed curd product is laid out in warm milk.
  5. After bringing it to a boil, sour cream interferes in the liquid.
  6. The contents of the pan are cooked with constant stirring until a white clot forms.
  7. If the cheese does not curl, then a little vinegar is added to the pan.
  8. The mass is reclined in a colander with gauze, where it remains for a day, so that all the liquid from it is completely glass.
  9. When there is no moisture left, the cheese is laid out in a mold and placed under oppression in the refrigerator.

With mushrooms

Homemade cheese can be prepared with the addition of various ingredients that will give the product aroma and piquancy. For example, mushrooms will always come in handy.

To execute this variation you must have at hand:

  • 1 kg of cottage cheese;
  • 1 kg of milk;
  • 600 g of mushrooms;
  • 20 g of mushroom seasoning;
  • some lemon juice;
  • 2 piles of sunflower oil.

Cooking homemade cheese is to perform the following manipulations:

  1. Water is poured into the pan, into which a few drops of lemon juice are added.
  2. Mushrooms are sent here, which are aged there for about 20 minutes. After this time, the mushrooms are folded into a colander, dried and cut into slices.
  3. Mushroom slices are fried along with salt in hot sunflower oil.
  4. Cottage cheese is whipped with a mixer along with milk and mushroom seasoning.
  5. The mixture is sent to the pan, where it is boiled until a clot forms.
  6. The cheese composition is laid out on cheesecloth and stays there until all the liquid has drained.
  7. After draining the whey, the creamy mass is mixed with the cooled mushrooms and laid out in a prepared form, which is sent to the refrigerator for 6 hours.

Sweet cheese

If you suddenly wanted something sweet, but healthy, then you can prepare a cheese dessert from:

  • 400 g of cottage cheese;
  • chocolate bars
  • a piece of oil.
  • 30 g of granulated sugar;
  • 750 ml of milk;
  • 5 g of soda.

Cooking method:

  1. Using a blender, cottage cheese, milk and softened butter are mixed.
  2. Curd is laid out in a bowl, which is sent for 25 minutes in a water bath.
  3. Chocolate chips and granulated sugar are laid out in a hot, uniform mass.
  4. The cheese is poured into a mold that is placed in the cold.

So, thanks to various additives, at home, you can cook sweet and salty cheese of various consistencies, depending on the gastronomic preferences. Such a product, prepared on the basis of farm milk and cottage cheese, will be much more useful than a store.

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