Cheese mascarpone finds a place in a huge number of recipes for home sweets and snacks, but, unfortunately, it is not so easy to find this product of Italian cheese makers on the shelves of our markets, and if it succeeds, the price of cheese can be unpleasantly surprised. Anyway, to deny yourself the pleasure of implementing dishes with the participation of mascarpone is not worth it, because soft cheese can be prepared at home from all the familiar sour cream.
How to cook mascarpone from sour cream?
The first method of cooking is considered the most uncomplicated, because to implement it you do not even need to turn on the stove, you just need to choose sour cream and buy a gauze cut. The choice of sour cream is a very important thing. After all, it is her taste and fat content that will affect similar parameters of cheese, and therefore ideally take not sour cream and be sure that the fat content in it is not below 20%. You can make mascarpone from homemade sour cream, but you can replace it with a purchase - it's not a principle. Once the main ingredient is selected, you can add spices: a pinch of salt, a little dried herbs, sugar, pepper, or leave untouched.
Lay the sour cream on top of the two-layered gauze stained with a double-leafed dumpling, gather the ends of the gauze and cover them with sour cream. Place on the mixture a plate with a load and put everything in the refrigerator. Homemade mascarpone cheese from sour cream will be ready after 10-12 hours of standing.
How to make mascarpone at home from sour cream?
Ingredients:
- sour cream 450 g;
- lemon juice - 10 ml;
- milk - 90 ml.
Preparation
Sour cream mixed with milk and heat up to 70 degrees, pour into the mixture of lemon juice and remove the dishes from the fire. After covering the container with a lid, let the base for the cheese curd 7-8 minutes, and then flake the flakes in a colander and leave the mascarpone cheese from the sour cream to drain for 6-9 hours.