How to make processed cheese curd at home?

Contents:

• Homemade cream cheese with dill and cumin curd
• Processed cheese with garlic curd
• Domestic processed cheese with walnuts
• Processed cheese with dried fruit and chocolate
• Cheese, cooked in a water bath with mushrooms

Processed cheese - one of the most favorite delicacies in the majority of the population. But not all housewives know that it can be easily made at home. This will require cheese, milk, and certain other ingredients (according to the recipe). Preparation of melted cheese with your own hands - quite an easy process, but only if you comply with the recipe.
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Homemade cream cheese with dill and cumin curd

You will need:

• Milk - 1 cup;
• Cottage cheese - 1 kg;
• Butter - 4 tablespoons (canteens);
• Soda - 0.5 tsp;
• Salt;
• Cumin;
• Fresh dill.

The recipe of melted cheese with dill and cumin curd is simple and does not take too much time. Milk and cheese are best used home, but if this is not possible, it should be fine, and store-bought foods. Take the bowl more, to shift into her cottage cheese, add the baking soda, pour in the milk. Then, with immersion blender attachment perebeyte cottage cheese, it must be virtually uniform.

Put a bowl of cottage cheese on the plate, make a minimum the fire, cook the cheese, stirring constantly. Once the mass begins to melt, following a recipe, add the butter, salt, and dill, cumin. You can add salt to taste, in the winter, instead of fresh dill, use its seeds, crushed in the grinder, or other means. If you take the dry fennel, it will give your home an ugly color of the cheese, which is undesirable.

Boil the cream cheese until the cheese is completely disperse.

Then pour the mass in trays or other molds and refrigerate after freezing homemade cheese ready to be served.

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Processed cheese with garlic curd

You will need:

• Cottage cheese - 0.5 kg;
• Egg - 1 pc;
• Butter - 100 g;
• Garlic - 3 cloves;
• Fresh Dill;
• Salt;
• Soda - 0.5 tablespoons (tea).

This recipe for homemade melted cheese is a little different from the previous one, it does not use milk. Take cheese, mix it with salt, add soda, grind it with a blender or miss a few times through a sieve, let it brew for about 90 minutes. During this time, the products begin to interact with each other.

Chop the garlic with the help of spadefoot, put it into the curd. Further prescription, take the butter (it must be softened), egg, fresh dill (chopped), add in all the cottage cheese, salt. Massa mix thoroughly, put on the stove. Cook on very low heat, stirring constantly, carefully make sure that cheese will not stick to the bottom of dishes, otherwise the cheese will inevitably foothills, and the product is damaged.

Cooking process takes about 5 minutes, it is very important not to digest the curd, for consistency it should get enough liquid. Processed cheese pour into prepared molds (you can use a regular cup). When the mass has cooled, move the cottage cheese in the fridge, where it finally thickened.

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Domestic processed cheese with walnuts

You will need:

• Cottage cheese - 1 kg;
• Milk - 1 liter;
• Butter - 50 g;
• Eggs - 2 pcs;
• Walnuts - quarter cup;
• Sugar - 0.5 spoons (dining room);
• Salt;
• Black pepper (ground);
• Hot red chili pepper (ground).

This recipe for homemade melted cheese a little harder for its preparation is required to separate the whey from the curd. If you have purchased cheese, then mix it with milk and place on a plate, a little warm, in any case not cook, weight should only heat up. Take a colander Cover the gauze, folded in several layers, transfer to warmed curds. Stir the mass of a spoon to the glass the whole serum, and then wrap the cheese in cheesecloth and place it on top of the press.

If you use cottage cheese, then simply wrap it in gauze, put in a colander, and set on top of the press, leave it for about 3-4 hours. During this time the serum should leave the cottage. Next, the recipe, mix cottage cheese prepared with sugar, salt and eggs, mix well. Butter put an empty pot, after it has melted, add the cottage cheese. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, at the end of cooking put black pepper and a bit of red hot chili peppers. Make sure that the cheese does not boil when the cheese is melted, remove from the fire safely.

Walnuts Get rid of the shell, then chop or a blender or using a grinder to a fine crumb. If you want to feel the pieces of nuts in the tooth, then grind too finely. Then add nuts in processed cheese, put everything in the refrigerator. Approximately 6 hours homemade cheese hardens completely.

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Processed cheese with dried fruit and chocolate

You will need:

• Cottage cheese - 0.5 kg;
• Sour cream - 1 cup;
• Chocolate - 1 bar (100g);
• Butter - 100 g;
• Sugar - 50g;
• Soda - 0.5 tsp;
• Dried fruits (raisins, figs, prunes, apricots).

Cheese, cooked according to the recipe turns out tasty and sweet. And, depending on what kind of chocolate (white, black, milk) you will use this and get a taste. Let's start with the preparation of cottage cheese, mix it with sour cream (can substitute milk or cream) and whisk blender. Then transfer to a cheesecloth, folded in several layers and hang on for 6-8 hours.

Dried fruits wash, then place them on a paper towel to remove excess moisture; dried apricots, prunes, figs, chopped raisins can be left whole. Chocolate rub on a small grater. Put the skillet to a minimum the fire, put it in butter, grated chocolate, soda, sugar, dried fruit. When everything starts to melt, add the cheese and cook, stirring constantly, until cheese is completely dissolved. Weight can come as a liquid, and quite thick. Liquid cheese, pour into sudochki, flatten dough spatula so as to obtain a layer of about 2 cm high, send for a few hours in the refrigerator.

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Cheese, cooked in a water bath with mushrooms

You will need:

• Cottage cheese - 500 g;
• Soda - 0.5 tsp;
• Salt;
• Herbs;
• Mushrooms - 100 gr.

This is one of the easiest recipes for homemade melted cheese. First prepare mushrooms: mushrooms, wash, wipe dry, chop finely, then fry in a mixture of butter and vegetable oils refined. Prepare a water bath, boiling water should not touch the bottom of the pan or bowl. Connect cheese with soda, put in a water bath, stir continuously, about 10-15 minutes mass of melted completely, at this moment, add salt and herbs, roasted mushrooms.

Ready cheese remove from the steam bath, pour into molds, place in the refrigerator for freezing. Instead of mushrooms you can use any additives, such as paprika, pickles, garlic, nuts and herbs. Playing with additives, can vary the recipe, and get home-made cheese with a variety of flavors.