Cheese like Mascarpone with sour cream and milk

Creamy mascarpone - airy Italian cheese! Mascarpone, as you know, is included in a large number of Italian dishes, and not only Italian. In stores, as a rule, it is quite expensive, and even then you can’t always find it on the shelves. Therefore, making such cheese at home is the best way out. It will come in handy if you decide to make tiramisu or cheesecake, there’s nowhere without mascarpone)) The output is 0.5 kg of homemade mascarpone cheese. At one time, I beat off all my fingers to find the best recipe for homemade cheese. My searches often ended successfully, so I had a lot of interesting recipes on my computer that I wouldn’t be ashamed to offer to others. To combine business with pleasure, I’ll start with a story about how to make homemade Mascarpone cheese at home. Well, at least one of his options.
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Lauren JonesLauren Jones
Author of the recipe
Cheese like Mascarpone with sour cream and milk
Calories
364Kcal
Protein
6gram
Fat
34gram
Carbs
8gram
*Nutritional value of 1 serving

Ingredients

ServingsServings: 5
200ml
2teaspoon

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking timeCooking time: 1 hr 45 mins
  1. STEP 1

    STEP 1

    Mix milk with sour cream and mix everything thoroughly.

  2. STEP 2

    STEP 2

    Place on low heat and stir constantly. We check with a thermometer that the liquid does not heat up by more than 75 degrees. Add lemon juice and mix again. During this time, the liquid in the pan will curdle. The most important thing is not to let it boil.

  3. STEP 3

    STEP 3

    Immediately turn off the heat and leave to cool. In a suitable container, you can take a colander, put gauze soaked in water in several layers.

  4. STEP 4

    STEP 4

    And we already pour into it what we got from the milk mixture.

  5. STEP 5

    STEP 5

    Leave for an hour to allow all excess liquid to drain out. If she doesn't have enough time, we'll extend it another hour.

  6. STEP 6

    STEP 6

    Then squeeze out the resulting cheese. If you do this too hard, the cheese will become denser. Personally, I like to leave it tender.

Comments on the recipe

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Lana
09.09.2023
4.9
I wonder if this can be done in a slow cooker? Set the temperature to 75, for example. How long should milk be heated on the stove with lemon juice? You can't see in the photo that it has curled up or should the flakes be very small?