Processed cheese: recipes with photos

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

It's hard to find a member of the older generation who has never tasted processed cheese. In conditions of shortage, typical for the Soviet period of our history, this cheap product was a frequent guest on the tables of our fellow citizens. Despite the fact that today the store shelves are bursting with delicacies, it does not lose its popularity. In this article, you will learn an original and simple recipe for processed cheese (with photo), as well as recipes for dishes that can be prepared from it.

What is produced from

Processed cheese is a delicious dairy product. It is obtained by processing cottage cheese. Rennet or special cheeses for melting can also be used as raw materials. Their recipe also includes butter, as well as other dairy products and spices. In the manufacture of the product, the cheese mass is melted at a temperature of 75-95 ° C. To obtain the desired consistency, special melting s alts are included in the number of ingredients.

A bit of history

Processed cheese was invented in 1911 in the city of Thun (Switzerland). Its recipe was invented by W alter Gerber and Fritz Stettler. Emmental cheese was chosen as a raw material, to which sodium citrate was added. Gourmets liked the novelty, but it did not immediately become widespread.

After 5 years, James Kraft, who is the founder of the well-known company Kraft Foods to this day, patented a new method for the production of processed cheese. In 1950, his company was the first in the world to start selling such a sliced product. It was several times cheaper than the traditional one, since inexpensive ingredients were used for its production. This circumstance provided the new cheese with a rapid growth in popularity, first in the United States and then in Europe.

In the USSR, this product began to be produced since 1934 at the Moscow Processed Cheese Factory built and equipped specifically for this purpose. In the early 1940s, the assortment of the enterprise was expanded. In particular, the manufacture of cheaper processed cheese from skimmed milk was mastered. Later, in the 1960s, the popular products Druzhba, Omichka, Volna and Yantar began to be produced.

Processed homemade cheese

It's quite easy to make such a tasty and he althy bread spread. For this you will need:

• 70g butter;
• 350 g cottage cheese;
• 1 egg;
• 1/2 tsp each soda and dried dill;
• s alt to taste.

To make melted cheese, you need:

1. Cutbutter in small pieces and place in a deep bowl.
2. Heat it in the microwave or in a water bath.
3. Pour a slightly beaten egg into melted butter, mix well, combine this mixture with cottage cheese, add soda, mix again.
4. Chop the mass with a blender so that you get a mixture with small grains of cottage cheese.
5. Boil water in a small saucepan, reduce heat, put the bowl with the curd-egg mass in a water bath.
6. Melt, stirring, until the lumps of cottage cheese begin to melt. Continue cooking until the mass becomes viscous.
7. Add s alt, dried herbs and additives; stir the mixture.
8. Pour hot melted cheese into flat molds.

When the product has cooled, you can remove the film formed on the surface of the cheese. Let it cool in the refrigerator before use.

Soup with cream cheese: what you need

This is a hearty first course. It can be obtained using the following ingredients:

• 2 processed cheese any brand;
• 4 potatoes;
• 2 chicken legs;
• greens (any of your choice) to taste;
• pepper to taste;
• 50g rye or white bread croutons;
• 2.5L of water;
• s alt to taste;
• 1 medium carrot;
• 1 large onion;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

Step by step recipe

Cook cream cheese soup (photoabove) start by making the chicken broth. To do this, the legs are poured with water and brought to a boil. The liquid is then drained off. Pour hot water over the chicken legs and cook until tender.

When the meat is ready, it is removed from the bones, cut and transferred to a dish with a lid. Strain the broth.

The potatoes are peeled. Cut into large cubes, put in the broth and boil until tender.

Onions and carrots are peeled and chopped. The vegetables are sautéed in heated vegetable oil, after grating the carrots on a coarse grater and dicing the onion. When they soften, add vegetables to the broth. Boil the soup for about 2 minutes. Grind it with a blender to a liquid puree.

Cheese, pre-chilled in the refrigerator, cut into small cubes. Add them to the soup and cook until completely dissolved.

Bread is used to make croutons. Cut it into small cubes and fry in a dry frying pan until golden brown.

Before serving, pieces of boiled chicken meat, croutons and fresh herbs are placed in a bowl with soup.

Salad with egg and prunes

For cooking you will need:

• 3 garlic cloves;
• 3 processed cheese;
• green onions;
• 300g prunes;
• 100 ml mayonnaise;
• 50g walnut kernels;
• 4 eggs.

Prunes are poured with boiled water, left to stand for 10 minutes, and then cut into small pieces. Walnuts are scrolled through a meat grinder,green onions are chopped, peeled garlic is pressed with a knife, and boiled chicken eggs are cut into cubes. After mixing all the prepared ingredients, add light or homemade mayonnaise. After the salad is left to infuse for 15 minutes in the refrigerator. When serving, decorate with walnut kernels.

Salad with melted cheese and prunes is best obtained from this product of the Yantar or Wave brands, which must be cut into cubes.

Jewish salad with tartlets: products

This delicious popular snack is made with the bare minimum of the simplest ingredients. Needed:

• 3 pcs. processed cheese and garlic cloves;
• 2 eggs;
• 3-4 tbsp. l. homemade or light mayonnaise;
• a few sprigs of basil;
• tartlets or loaf.

Cooking the salad

First you need to hard boil 2 chicken eggs. If they were in the refrigerator, then before putting them in cold water and putting them on fire, it is better to hold them at room temperature for several minutes. In order for the eggs to be truly hard-boiled, the dishes with them must remain on the fire for 10 minutes after the start of the boil.

While they are cooking, melted cheese is grated.

Ready-made eggs are removed from heat and immediately cooled under cold water. Separate the boiled protein from the yolk and rub it on a grater. Add egg white to cheese.

Grate garlic, mix with mayonnaise and other ingredients and grind thoroughlywith a fork to avoid lumps.

Options

Spread salad with melted cheese can be given different tastes. To do this, the resulting mass must be divided into 3 parts and decomposed into different salad bowls. A mixture of the first can be served without additives, and the other two thirds can be “conjured”.

To do this, take a sprig of basil and chop the leaves with a knife. Add 1 tsp. mayonnaise and rub until the mixture turns green and absorbs the taste of the seasoning.

Grated egg yolk is added to the third bowl and also mixed until the mixture acquires a uniform consistency and a yellowish tint.

Feed

If you don't want to offer your guests salad in bowls, you can arrange it into tartlets. You can buy them ready-made or bake them yourself. Cheesy Jewish salad is especially tasty when served in puff pastry tartlets.

You can cook such an appetizer with croutons. To do this, they are fried, rubbed with garlic and spread on top of the salad. To make the croutons look beautiful, the cheese mass can be squeezed onto the toasted bread from a plastic bag with a cut off edge.

Before serving, you can sprinkle the salad with finely chopped greens.

Sprat salad with cheese

You can get a delicious snack from canned fish. To make it, sprats (1 can) are ground in a bowl, finely chopped onion (1 onion) is added, black pepper is added, melted cheese grated (1 pack), 1 tbsp. l.mayonnaise and finely chopped greens. Everything is mixed and served spread on bread or in tartlets.

Now you know some original recipes with melted cheese, and you can surprise your guests with delicious and inexpensive snacks.