How to make homemade cottage cheese from the milk - a simple recipe and step by step photo

As is known, the curd is usually accepted to do from sour milk. But using my recipe, there is no need to wait until the milk sour naturally, and he himself will be more delicious cheese, not sour. And most importantly, to prepare a cheese at home you can simply and quickly. And so, we master recipe cottage cheese from fresh (often sweet talk), not sour milk. Steps taken photos will help to more accurately understand how and what is happening.

Ingredients for curd:

• milk (fresh) - 3 liters;

• Citric acid - 1 tbsp. lodges. (Or juice of one medium lemon).

How to make cheese from the milk at home

Starting to cook, I usually just study and prepare a screen on which we discard cheese and a piece of clean gauze, folded in two layers. gauze size should be such that it was possible to completely cover the sieve.

The next thing to do is to pour the milk in a pan made of stainless steel or aluminum, to put it on the plate, including a strong fire.

The milk we need to heat almost to boiling. In the process I have heating, usually, I stir the milk with a slotted spoon to prevent formed Penke.

Once the milk comes to a boil state (you can understand trying to milk the finger must be very hot), we need to make a minimum the fire, add milk, citric acid or lemon juice squeezed out with a slotted spoon and stir.

After the acid addition, you will see how, almost immediately, curdle milk and curd flakes are formed on its surface. Gas under the pan must be switched off.

Cheese ottoplen, now we need to set a screen on an empty pan and drain the curd.

Whey drains into the pot, and grains of curd remain on gauze. Wait until all the liquid has drained, and pour it into the bottle.

The ends of the gauze with even moist curds need to wrap (cottage cheese turns out as though in gauze bag). Whatever cheese was not as wet gauze top convolution put a flat plate, the weight is on that. For this purpose, I used butylek serum. Structure can be clearly seen in the photo.

An hour later, remove oppression and took out gauze healthy, fresh and delicious cottage cheese. Look, even the photo shows that the curd has turned out delicious.

This cottage can simply bring to the table with sugar, sour cream or jam. Also, it is perfectly suited to the cheesecakes or can be an excellent filling for baking or dumplings.