Cooking sour cream from goat milk

Goat milk is a very useful natural dairy product. Goat's milk is strikingly different from the same product of other animals. It has a higher fat content, a larger amount of protein compared to cow's, and many different microelements. Goat milk is also completely hypoallergenic. It can be consumed fresh, as well as to make various dairy products: cottage cheese, cream, sour cream.

Goat's milk sour cream (absolutely white in contrast to cow's) is a wonderful product in terms of usefulness. It is tasty, tender and easily absorbed by the body, helping to improve digestion. It contains vitamins A, C, E, PP. Vitamin D in such sour cream helps better absorption of calcium, the amount of which in the product is quite large. Sour cream is advised to take for the prevention of anemia. It is also useful for those who monitor the amount of cholesterol in the blood, which is important for the prevention of atherosclerosis.

Everything that we cook ourselves from natural and safe products in our own kitchen is unconditionally healthy. Like sour cream from cow's milk, sour cream from goat's milk can be prepared independently. Moreover, it cannot be found on sale in ordinary stores and can only be prepared at home.

First of all, a simple calculation: every housewife who regularly prepares sour cream can tell you that from 10 liters of milk we can get about a liter of sour cream.Another nuance - milk for making sour cream must first settle. At the same time, instead of a lid, cover the container in which the base will be located with a gauze cloth to prevent the appearance of an unpleasant odor. This is also necessary so that the sour cream does not get bitter in the future.

Sour cream is made from cream. Cream at home can be prepared in three ways: by settling, with the help of a separator and without it. Let's consider each of them.

With this preparation, goat's milk, and it is quite fatty, settles for several days. During this time, a thick layer of milk fat, cream, forms on its surface. And under them is reverse (it is low in fat). The skimmed cream is transferred with a clean spoon into a glass jar and allowed to settle and thicken. There is one drawback in this method - it will not work to get a lot of cream in this way. In addition, the amount of cream and sour cream directly depends on the fat content of the main ingredient. The less fat, the less cream.

It is worth noting that the separator is a device for obtaining milk cream. The operation of the device is based on the principle of centrifugation. The separator device provides for the distillation of milk through a dozen metal "plates" at a fairly high speed in a circle. Due to the fact that milk is a finely dispersed substance in which milk fat is suspended in a liquid, the drink is separated by centrifugation into two components: thick fat cream (sour cream) and whey (reverse). Separators are manual and electric.

Before distilling sour cream through a separator, milk is heated to 37-40 degrees.Experienced housewives determine this temperature simply: by dipping the little finger into the liquid. If the little finger suffers, then the temperature is optimal. After starting the separator, you can carefully pour the milk into the milk receiver of the separator. With a quiet, uniform hum, carefully and slowly open the separator key and adjust the intensity of the cream (sour cream) exit process using a special toggle switch.

With this method, fresh goat's milk is fermented by adding a small amount of already sour product to it. Then the resulting mixture is left to stand for 4 days at room temperature in a container covered with gauze. After 4 days, a layer of natural sour cream forms on the surface. But from the bottom there will be natural, very healthy yogurt from goat's milk. It can be consumed immediately after receipt, or you can use it to make cottage cheese, make it the basis for the dough.

As a conclusion, I would like to say that getting sour cream at home is not such a complicated process, which results in a useful environmentally friendly product. Sour cream can be added to salads as a dressing, to soups, consumed with pancakes and pancakes, or simply spread on a slice of bread at breakfast. You will be able to please your loved ones with a natural product of your own preparation, which you cannot buy in any supermarket.

How to make sour cream from goat's milk, see the following video.