Is it possible to make homemade mascarpone cheese?

mascarpone A soft cream cheese native to Italy that is used to make many popular desserts. Replacing it in the recipe with something difficult, and the prices are now, frankly, biting.

"Site" proposes to prepare the most delicate cream cheese mascarpone at home. To understand the basics of cheesemaking, you only need attention and accuracy!




From this amount of products will be about 450-500 g of cream cheese.

The ingredients

• 1 liter of unpasteurized cream (fat up to 25%, too fatty is not suitable)
• 3 tbsp lemon juice

Kitchenware

• pot
• gauze
• slack
• bowl

Preparation

1. Pour the cream into a clean and dry pan. Well, if you have a special one. kitchen thermometerThen you can put it on a pot right away. If there is no one available, we will determine the temperature "by eye" and be guided by culinary flair.
2. Put the cream on the fire to heat up. Stirring so that they do not burn, bring them to a temperature of 85 ° C (this is when the first bubbles begin to appear). Don't boil!
   
   
   
3. Take it off the fire, pour it in a thin stream. lemon juice.
4. Return the pan to the stove and heat the cream, stirring, on low heat for another 4-5 minutes, without bringing to a boil (temperature 82-85 ° C).
5. The indicator of product readiness will be a spoon. First, the liquid will drain from it, leaving no traces, then the mass will become similar to kefir. Keep stirring, there's only a little left! As soon as the cream turns into a thick cream and begins to envelop the spoon tightly, it is ready.
6. Remove the pan from the fire and leave to cool to 50-40 ° C (about 30 minutes).
7. Cover the coarse gauze in 5-6 layers or linen cloth and insert it into a bowl. Pour the mixture into the coop.
   
   
   
8. The ends of the fabric connect and hang to the glass serum. If you once made cottage cheese, this stage will already be familiar to you. In addition, you do not need to press the bundle, sometimes just unfold it and remove the remnants of cream from the walls with a spoon and drop it in the middle.
   
   
   
9. When the serum ceases to actively dig up, pour it into some vessel, and place the fabric bundle in a coop under pressure (for example, a plate and a jar of water). Send it to the fridge for 9-10 hours.
   
   
   
   
   

The gentlest mascarpone for tiramisu and cheesecakes is ready! Or you can just smear on bread... By the way, do not pour the resulting serum, but use it to make pancakes or cupcakes.

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