How to make cottage cheese from kefir: recipe

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

Everyone knows about the benefits of cottage cheese since childhood. But if in childhood we ate it under compulsion, then in adulthood we eat it with pleasure. Most likely, now you are unlikely to be able to buy a natural product, but if you really want it, you can make cottage cheese at home. It's easier than it looks. And how many different dishes can be prepared from natural cottage cheese!

Kefir cottage cheese at home

There is no difficulty in making cottage cheese. It does not take much time, which will delight any hostess. The preparation of this natural product will take no more than an hour, of which it takes about 15 minutes to work, no more.

1. Pour yogurt into a saucepan, put it on fire and heat the contents to 60-70 ° C. After that, the whey will gradually begin to separate from the curd.
2. Gently stir contents.
3. Then take a colander, cover itgauze in 3-4 layers and pour the contents of the pan.
4. Leave the cottage cheese in a colander for one hour so that all the whey is glass.
5. Next, we put the resulting mass on a plate, mix it with finely chopped herbs, s alt - and homemade cottage cheese is ready.

If you want to serve cottage cheese as a treat, you should add sugar instead of s alt and herbs.

Sweet kefir cottage cheese at home can be served with any sweet filling: fruit syrup, condensed milk, jam, nuts, wild berries, fruits, and so on.

Home-made cottage cheese from frozen kefir

The essence of this technology is almost the same as the usual formula, but frozen kefir makes cottage cheese unusually light and airy.

The cooking process is as follows:

1. Put a package of yogurt in the freezer and leave it there for 6-7 hours. This time is enough to freeze kefir.
2. After the specified time, remove the package from the freezer, remove the frozen mass from it and transfer to a colander, which is already located in a deep bowl in advance.
3. It will take all the whey to leave, so leave this mass for another 6 hours, but already at room temperature. After 6 hours, delicious and he althy kefir cottage cheese in the freezer can be safely eaten!

Homemade cottage cheese in a water bath

We offer another easy way to get tasty and he althy cottage cheese. Let's make it onwater bath.

We boil water in a saucepan, put a bowl of kefir on top, heat for half an hour, stir.

Cover a clean dry bowl with gauze, as mentioned above, or with a fine sieve and pour the cooked kefir. Leave until all the serum drains.

After that, we transfer the resulting mass to a plate. Frozen kefir cottage cheese is ready.

If your child refuses to eat cottage cheese, then try making cottage cheese cakes, pancakes, cheesecakes, muffins and so on.

Homemade cottage cheese from milk

To make homemade cottage cheese from milk and kefir, you need to do the following:

1. We take milk and kefir in a ratio of 1:1. It is recommended to add milk at room temperature.
2. Pour it into a pot or slow cooker. Add s alt to taste. Don't forget to stir as it can burn.
3. When bubbles appear on the milk, pour kefir. You need to turn it off when the whey begins to separate.
4. We wait 15-20 minutes for the ingredients to mix and form whey.
5. Then you need to reheat the resulting consistency, not forgetting to stir. After a while, we see how large grains of cottage cheese are obtained, mixed in whey.
6. Next, transfer it to a very fine sieve or gauze so that the whey is glass.
7. If you want to get dry and dense cottage cheese, then squeeze it out by hand. Or leave it for a while, let it reach the desiredconsistency.
8. When you feel like this is enough, transfer the curd mass to a plate.
9. Cottage cheese is ready to eat

Kefir curd pancakes

This simple and incredibly fragrant dish will be the best solution for breakfast.

Spread the cottage cheese on a plate, grind it with egg, sugar and s alt. Cottage cheese should be taken dry and crumbly. If the curd is watery, adding sugar will release excess water. You may need more flour.

You need to sift flour with soda. Gradually add the flour to the cottage cheese, thoroughly rubbing everything with a fork. After pouring a glass of flour, add 200 g of kefir, then again a glass of flour and the same amount of kefir.

Beat the dough with a mixer and heat the pan. Pour in vegetable oil so that the pancakes are almost floating in it. Otherwise, they will be dry. Fry the pancakes over medium heat on both sides. It is advisable to put them on paper towels after frying so that they absorb excess oil.

Cooking secrets

The way to make cottage cheese from kefir, like any other products, has its own characteristics, which every housewife should be aware of. Let's talk about them a little more so that by the time you prepare, you will be fully armed.

You can get cottage cheese not only from fresh kefir. Curd from sour kefir is no worse. The principle of cooking is exactly the same as from fresh.

To make cottage cheese for a small child, you need to remembermultiple features:

• kefir should be taken homogeneous in composition;
• sour yogurt curd is not suitable for babies, only fresh is needed;
• if you want to add fruit, then first you need to grind them thoroughly with a blender.

The fat content of cottage cheese depends on the fat content of kefir. The more fat in kefir, the higher the calorie content of the product. Usually use kefir with a fat content of at least 3%.