Processed cheese is one of the most beloveddelicacies for most of the population. But not all housewives know that it can be easily prepared at home. To do this, you will need cottage cheese, milk, and some other ingredients (depending on the recipe). Making processed cheese with your own hands is a fairly easy process, but only if you follow the recipe exactly.

Homemade melted cheese with dill and cumin from cottage cheese

You will need:

• Milk - 1 glass;
• Cottage cheese - 1 kg;
• Butter - 4 tablespoons;
• Soda - 0.5 teaspoon;
• Salt;
• Caraway;
• Fresh dill.

Recipe for making processed cheese with dilland caraway seeds from cottage cheese is quite simple and will not take too much time. It is best to use homemade milk and cottage cheese, but if this is not possible, then store-bought products will do just fine. Take a larger bowl, put the cottage cheese in it, add soda, pour in the milk. Then beat the curd mass with a blender with an immersion nozzle, it should become almost uniform. Put the bowl with the curd mass on the stove, make the minimum heat, cook the cheese, stirring continuously. After the mass begins to melt, following the recipe, add butter, salt, and dill, caraway seeds. You can salt to taste, in winter, instead of fresh dill, use its seeds, ground in a coffee grinder, or in another accessible way. If you take dry dill, it will give the homemade cheese an ugly color, which is undesirable. Cook the processed cheese until the cottage cheese is completely dissolved. Then pour the mixture into trays or other molds and put it in the refrigerator; after it hardens, the homemade cheese can be served.

Frozen cheese with garlic from cottage cheese

You will need:

• Cottage cheese - 0.5 kg;
• Egg - 1 pc;
• Butter - 100 gr;
• Garlic - 3 cloves;
• Fresh dill;
• Salt;
• Soda - 0.5 teaspoon.

This homemade processed cheese recipe is a littlediffers from the previous one, it does not use milk. Take cottage cheese, mix it with salt, add soda, grind it with a blender or pass it through a sieve several times, leave it to brew for about 90 minutes. During this time, the products will begin to interact with each other. Chop the garlic with a garlic press, put it in the cottage cheese. Next, according to the recipe, take butter (it should be softened), an egg, fresh dill (chopped), add everything to the curd mass, salt. Mix the mass thoroughly, put it on the stove. Cook on the lowest heat, stirring constantly, especially carefully watch that the cottage cheese does not stick to the bottom of the dish, otherwise the cheese will inevitably burn, and the product will be spoiled. The cooking process will take about 5 minutes, it is very important not to overcook the cheese mass, its consistency should be quite liquid. Pour the processed cheese into the prepared molds (you can use regular cups). When the mass cools down, move the homemade cheese to the refrigerator, where it will finally thicken.

Homemade melted cheese with walnuts

You will need:

• Cottage cheese - 1 kg;
• Milk - 1 l;
• Butter - 50 gr;
• Eggs - 2 pcs;
• Walnuts - a quarter cup;
• Sugar - 0.5 spoon (tablespoon);
• Salt;
• Black pepper (ground);
• Hot red chili pepper (ground).

This homemade processed cheese recipe is a littlemore difficult, to prepare it you need to separate the whey from the curd. If you took store-bought cottage cheese, then mix it with milk and put it on the stove, warm it up a little, do not cook it under any circumstances, the mass should only warm up. Take a colander, cover it with gauze folded in several layers, pour the heated cottage cheese there. Stir the mass with a spoon so that all the whey drains, then wrap the cottage cheese in gauze and put a press on top. If you are using homemade cottage cheese, then it is enough to simply wrap it in gauze, put it in a colander, and put a press on top, leave it like this for about 3-4 hours. During this time, the whey should leave the cottage cheese. Next, according to the recipe, mix the prepared cottage cheese with sugar, salt and eggs, mix thoroughly. Put the butter in an empty pan, after it melts, add the curd mass. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, at the end of cooking add black ground pepper and a little red hot chili pepper. Make sure that the cheese does not boil, when the curd melts, safely remove from the heat. Remove the walnuts from the shell, then grind either in a blender or with a meat grinder into small crumbs. If you want to feel the pieces of nuts on your tooth, then do not grind too finely. Then add the nuts to the processed cheese, put everything in the refrigerator. In about 6 hours, the homemade cheese will completely harden.

Frozen cheese with chocolate and dried fruits

You will need:

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

Cheese prepared according to this recipe,turns out tasty and sweet. Moreover, depending on what kind of chocolate (white, dark, milk) you use, such will be the taste. Let's start with preparing the cottage cheese, mix it with sour cream (can be replaced with milk or cream), and beat with a blender. Then put it in cheesecloth folded in several layers and hang it for 6-8 hours. Wash the dried fruits, then lay them out on a paper towel to remove excess moisture; dried apricots, prunes, figs, finely chop, raisins can be left whole. Grate the chocolate on a fine grater. Put the saucepan on low heat, put in it butter, grated chocolate, soda and sugar, dried fruits. When everything starts to melt, add the cottage cheese, cook, stirring constantly, until the cottage cheese is completely dissolved. The mass can be either liquid or quite thick. Pour the liquid cheese into the containers, smooth out the thick mass with a spatula so that you get a layer about 2 cm high, and put it in the refrigerator for several hours.

Cheese, cooked in a water bath with mushrooms

You will need:

• Homemade cottage cheese - 500 gr;
• Soda - 0.5 teaspoon;
• Salt;
• Spices;
• Champignons - 100 gr.

This is one of the easiest recipes to make.homemade processed cheese. First, prepare the champignons: wash the mushrooms, wipe dry, chop finely, then fry in a mixture of butter and vegetable refined oils. Prepare a water bath, boiling water should not touch the bottom of the pan or bowl. Combine cottage cheese with soda, put in a water bath, stir continuously, in about 10-15 minutes the mass will melt completely, at this point add salt and herbs, fried mushrooms. Remove the finished cheese from the steam bath, pour into molds, put in the refrigerator to harden. Instead of mushrooms, you can use any additives, for example, bell peppers, pickles, garlic, nuts, herbs. Playing with additives, you can diversify the recipe, and get homemade cheese with a wide variety of tastes.

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