How to cook cottage cheese in the oven?
We advise you to take a closer look at the recipes for cottage cheese, which you can cook at home. Cooked in the oven, it turns out not to be grainy, but pasty, which is indispensable for creating desserts.
Product properties
From an early age, we are well acquainted with the many positive properties of cottage cheese, the benefits of this product for human health.
The first and main quality and benefits of cottage cheese is that it is one of the main sources of protein supply to our body, which is the main building element for our muscles, and calcium, which strengthens and correctly forms the entire skeletal system of our body. In this regard, cottage cheese must be present in the menu of babies and the elderly.
Of course, in supermarkets we can buy a huge number of different types and varieties of this useful product and products from it. But will these types of cottage cheese be the most effective in their benefits for the child's body and for us? And here we quite naturally have doubts, and quite serious ones at that. This is due to the fact that these days often dishonest dairy producers create cottage cheese from various preservatives and additives, thereby creating a long-term product.
Moreover, in order to increase the percentage of fat content in a product, manufacturers often add margarine to it, in the most ideal version, and it happens even worse - they interfere with the spread.
Definitely, such a dairy product will not bring any benefit to the still weak body of a child, but will only cause harm. And we often wonder where to get a fresh and healthy product, namely real tasty cottage cheese. A reasonable conclusion lies in the sound decision to make homemade cottage cheese.
By the way, anyone, even a beginner, hostess can do it at home.
And there are a great many recipes for creating it all over the world.
Ingredients
To create cottage cheese at home, milk or kefir is used. It also turns out very tasty from yogurt.
By preparing cottage cheese at home, you will definitely get absolute quality and freshness. Creating this delicious product is quite simple, but even here there are secrets. The main thing for creating cottage cheese is invariably - its basis is high-quality milk.
You can use store-bought milk, but it must be natural, not contain any artificial additives and have a short shelf life. But the ideal raw material for creating the best cottage cheese is, of course, homemade milk.
Remember: when purchasing a product at the market from a stranger, be sure to boil and let the milk cool to thirty-five degrees, and then add the leaven. Sourdough can be sour cream or a purchased powder containing acidic bacteria in its composition.
To prepare a truly complete product and get a greater yield of homemade cottage cheese, it is necessary that the milk ripens well and, at the same time, that it does not turn sour.
Homemade cottage cheese is a very healthy dish, which is also the basis for preparing several hundred delicious dishes.
Recipe
To make approximately 750 grams of cottage cheese, you need 3 liters of milk.
First of all, pour milk into a three-liter container and leave it for a day, and if the room is hotter than usual, then only for an hour. During this period of time, the product will have enough time to sour.
Then the milk should be transferred to a dark, cool room. If there is no such place in your house or apartment, then put the dishes with milk in the refrigerator. She must be there for at least 2 days.
5 hours before the start of cooking the cottage cheese, you can safely bring the jar into a warm room. With proper fermentation, sour milk will lag behind the walls of the jar.
If the jar does not fit in your stove, then cook the cottage cheese in a saucepan or any other container of the required size.
Next, place the container with milk in the oven, setting it to a temperature of 140 degrees, and cook there for about 50 minutes. After cooking, leave the product in the oven until it cools completely (usually 8 hours).
In the morning you will be happy to watch the cottage cheese safely sink to the bottom of the jar.
And further actions will be very simple: cover a colander or sieve with gauze in 2 layers and evenly pour the cottage cheese over the gauze, while slowly draining the whey. As a result of processing, you will receive approximately two liters of delicious whey. Let the cottage cheese lie in a sieve on gauze for another 3-4 hours. So the maximum amount of whey will come out of the curd.
From 3000 grams of milk, you will get up to 900 grams of soft, tasty and very healthy cottage cheese that will appeal to both children and adults.
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