Homemade cheese without milk

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 3 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make homemade cheese without milk? Prepare your food. It’s better to take fatty cottage cheese; store-bought cheese may not work. Butter is of high quality, without additives, in accordance with GOST.

2. STEP 2

   

   In a separate bowl, mix cottage cheese, egg, salt and soda. I mashed it directly with my hand to loosen all the lumps in the curd. You can puree the mixture with an immersion blender.

3. STEP 3

   

   Build a water bath on the stove. Take a large saucepan, fill it with water to half the volume and put it on the fire. After the water boils, place a bowl on top of such a size that the edges hold onto the sides of the pan. Turn down the heat. The water bath is ready. Place the butter in a bowl and melt it.

4. STEP 4

   

   Add the curd mass to the butter, stir.

5. STEP 5

   

   With constant stirring, cook the mixture until the cottage cheese is completely melted. It should become homogeneous and liquid. I stirred with a whisk.

6. STEP 6

   

   After this happens, continue cooking the cheese. It cooks for quite a long time, at least 30 minutes, the mass must be stirred from time to time.

7. STEP 7

   

   If you cook the cheese for 30 minutes, it will come out soft, very similar to Druzhba processed cheese. To obtain hard cheese, cook for 45-50 minutes. The mass will boil down well and thicken, as can be seen from the photo. Monitor the water level in the pan; if it boils, add more.

8. STEP 8

   

   Pour the cheese into the form in which it will be stored and leave to cool at room temperature. Enameled, glass or plastic containers and bowls are suitable as forms. Then cover the pan with a lid and place in the refrigerator. In two hours the cheese will be ready.

9. STEP 9

   

   I left the cheese overnight, and in the morning I easily took it out of the bowl. Properly cooked cheese cuts easily and does not stick to the knife. It is very tasty to eat it just like that, with fresh bread and butter. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

angela

19.10.2023

4.8

I make homemade cheese from milk and kefir, but I haven’t tried it with cottage cheese yet. I'll try, thanks.

Eleno4ka

19.10.2023

4.6

I decided to make homemade cheese without milk. I used farm cottage cheese, natural. I salted it, added baking soda and an egg, and blended everything together until smooth. To cook the cheese, I took a ladle, melted butter in it, added the curd mass and put it in a water bath. Cooked, stirring, for 45 minutes. The finished mixture was poured into a glass form, and after cooling, the form was placed in the refrigerator overnight. The cheese turned out to be quite dense and cuts well. And most importantly, I am confident in its naturalness and the absence of artificial additives. Thanks for the recipe, katushafin!