How to make Adygei cheese at home?

Adygei cheese - soft cheese with gentle creamy taste. A simple recipe for its preparation was invented a long time ago in the Caucasus, in the province of Adygea, from where the name of the cheese occurred. About how to make Adygei cheese at home, read in this article.

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Adygei Cheese: Classic Recipe

In the Caucasus, soft cheese is prepared from solid pasteurized milk and home serum. To improve taste in the recipe use spices. Cheese, cooked according to the classic Circassian recipe, has a delicate consistency, it is moderately salty and has a pronounced fermented dairy taste.

Ingredients:

• Milk - 4 l;
• Serum - 0.7 liters;
• Salt - 15-20 g

Cooking process:

1. Bring milk to boiling (on slow fire).
2. Gradually, enter in boiling milk serum. When adding serum, the milk mass will begin to be divided into flakes. It is necessary to carefully stir the milk until the fluid is transparent, while the fire must be minimal.
3. The resulting cheese mass is filtering through a colander, plated gauze, and give a stance of an extra liquid. To speed up the process of separating the liquid, the cheese can be slightly pressed by noise.
4. We leave cheese in colander for half an hour.
5. One side of the cheese we rub the salt, give him time to salute (about half an hour), then turn the cheese cake on the other side in the colander and repeat the procedure. Thus, the cheese will have time to buy a salty taste. Optionally, salt can be mixed with spices that will give cheese piquancy.
6. Creed up to readiness Adygei cheese should be in a cool place for at least 12 hours. During this time, he will acquire a form will enrich the taste.
7. For this recipe, 650-700 grams of delicious cheese are obtained.

Advice! The acid is milk serum, the more tastier cheese comes out.

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Adygean cheese with spices and greens

Diversify the menu and enjoy the gentle fermented fermented with spices and fresh greenery, thanks to the following recipe:

Ingredients:

• Milk -1 l;
• Eggs - 3 pcs;
• Sour cream - 200 g;
• Salt - 2 ppm;
• Fresh or dried greens, cumin, blend of herbs - about 30 g.

Cooking process:

1. Put milk on a slow fire to boil.
2. While the milk boils, prepare a mixture of three eggs, salts and sour cream. Mix her homogeneous consistency well.
3. Grind fresh greens. To give the taste of cheese, you can use any greens: parsley, dill, basil, arugula, cress salad. A mixture of dried herbs is also suitable.
4. As soon as the milk begins to boil, pour the sour-jet sour cream-egg mixture, carefully stirring. In the process of mixing, the serum will start separated.
5. Peeling future cheese about 5 minutes and add greens, cumin or other spices to it.
6. In a sieve and colander, shaved gauze, overflow the milk mass and give a stance of the liquid.
7. When the whole liquid is stroke, cheese can be sent to the refrigerator. After 4 hours a tasty gentle product with fragrant herbs is ready to use. Slices of cheese in the cut look very impressive. He will take a worthy place on the holiday table.

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How to store a finished product?

It is important not only to know the recipes and secrets of the preparation of delicious and useful cheese, but also to store it correctly, so that he does not lose his taste longer and brought only benefits. On average, Adygei cheese is stored for about a week. Gradually, he loses moisture and becomes solid. In case, the cooked cheese failed to eat all the time, it is possible to extend its storage period as follows:

1. Place the product in a package for storing products with a fastener and close with a piece of rafinada. Sugar emphasizes liquid and extends the shelf life of cheese. In this sealed package, cheese is stored in the refrigerator.
2. In the same way, you can store cheese, placing sugar in the package, but a large salt, which sprinkles it.
3. Hermetically packed Adyghe cheese retains taste quality and at minus temperature in the refrigerator.

Gentle Adygei cheese made from natural products - a real storehouse of vitamins and useful substances. On its basis, you can cook a lot of dishes: cheese snacks, baking, salads and please our close delicious cheese delicacy.