How to make cheese at home?

Homemade cheese from cottage cheese

To taste this cheese resembles a melted cream cheese. To make cheese from cottage cheese, we will need:

• 1 kg of cottage cheese;


• 1 liter of milk;


• 1 egg;


• 2 egg yolks;


• 120 g of butter


• 2 tsp. soda;


• 1 pinch of salt.

Take a large saucepan, pour the milk, put it on the fire and bring it to a boil. In boiled milk, add cottage cheese and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes on a small fire until the serum separates.

We put the clean gauze in two layers, we will moisten it well inwater and a colander. Pour the resulting curd mass. After the glass serum, fasten the cheesecloth and hang it over the sink to drain the remains.

Softened butter mixed with yolks. Add salt and soda and get a good mass.

Dried cottage cheese mass mixed with whipped butter and yolks. You can add spices to taste.

Let's make a water bath. In a large saucepan pour water and bring to a boil. Let's put a smaller saucepan with the resulting mass. Cook for about 10 minutes, stirring, until the house cheese becomes sticky and begins to melt.

Then we will transfer to a colander or a form, greased with butter. On top press it down and put it in the refrigerator. After 2-3 hours, remove the cheese from the mold, cut it and serve it to the table.

Boiled cheese

It turns out very tasty cream cheese with ostrinka.

To make cheese, for 1 kg of cottage cheese we will need:

• 75 g of butter;


• 200 g cream or homemade sour cream;


• The 1st;


• salt, cumin to taste.

Let's leave the cottage cheese in a closed saucepan in a warm place. After 3-4 days, it will cover with mold, giving it a characteristic taste.

Grind with a meat grinder cottage cheese with mildew,mixed with cream, salt and cumin. Melt in a saucepan of butter, add the curd mass. Cook, stirring, until a homogeneous melted mass is obtained.

Beat the egg at the end of the boil, stir well and heat, not bringing to a boil.

We put it into a mold, greased with butter, press it down and remove it into the refrigerator. Like homemade cheese, cooked will be ready in a few hours.

The hardness of the cheese depends on the time spent under the press. Excess liquid must be drained as it forms.

Sulguni cheese

Snow white suluguni is made from buffalo milk. You can also make cheese from fat cow milk, then it will turn out with a yellowish tinge.

To make Suluguni cheese weighing 1 kg, we will need:

• 10.2 liters of milk;


• 1 g pepsin for sourdough (sold in the pharmacy or on the market);


• 1 dessert spoon of wine vinegar.

For preparation of starter cultures take 200 ml of milk at room temperature, add the wine vinegar and dilute in the resulting liquid pepsin.

Let's strain 10 liters of milk through gauze or a fine sieve and heat in an aluminum pan (or kazanke) to a temperature of 30 degrees. Add the starter and put it for 30 minutes in a warm place.

Then put the saucepan with milk on a slow fire and collect the folding mass with clean hands to the wall of the vessel. Usually it takes 5 minutes for the whole cheese to curdle.

To make the cheese young, We take the lumps on a prepared colander with gauze. As in the recipe for home-made cheese from cottage cheese, squeeze from whey. The resulting homemade cheese is ready for use.

If you crumble the cheese and leave it warm, it will turn out delicious stretch filling for khachapuri, puffs with cheese or any other baking.

To make suluguni cheese, get the young cheese left to wander inunsalted serum for several hours in the heat. Then check for readiness: dip a thin piece of cheese into hot water, hold for 1-2 minutes. If the strip of cheese is slightly stretched, then it is ready for further processing. Cheese should not be torn.

Prepared cheese cut into strips of 2see In the hot water (80-90 degrees) let's lower the cheese. On low heat, stirring in one direction with a wooden spatula, we melt suluguni cheese. When it melts completely, we take out the mass, glue it in a ball and shape the head. Suluguni is ready for consumption.

To store the cheese, sprinkle the salt lightly and put it on top of each other. Learn more about storing other cheeses from this article.

Suluguni cheese can be fried in a frying pan in breadcrumbs and egg, add to hot cereals or make sandwiches for breakfast.

Bon Appetit!