Anyone made HM Cottage Cheese?

Penny-Pincher!!

Was watching a programme on money saving when they said about making cottage cheese. We eat a lot of this especially for breakfast or evening snacks as its pretty healthy and a good protein source.

The recipe was easy and went something like:

Using full fat milk heat to just before boiling, then add a little salt and add some lemon juice to make it curdle then push excess fluid out and apparently you have cottage cheese.

Is it really that easy? Could we add maybe tinned fruit to it or chillies etc?

PP
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hulda

I have made cheese using that method, but I was told it was Paneer, rather than cottage cheese. It goes firm and sliceable. You can also use white vinegar in place of the lemon juice. It really is that easy, but I found that you actually need to let it go to a rolling boil, or it doesn't separate properly. Some recipes say let it boil, others say don't, but I found that nothing happened when I added the acid before boiling point.

Boodle

Hi PP. I made something with more or less that recipe a few times when I was eating dairy. It was supposed to make ricotta, but it was more of a cottage cheese consistency so thought of it as cottage cheese when I used it. It was very nice IIRC.

EstherH

Just wondering then if you can do it with skimmed milk to make low fat cottage cheese? This is a revelation to me, I've never heard of it before either.

Esther x

Ben84

Sounds almost exactly like how I make paneer - although I squash it together at the end to make a solid I can chop in to cubes for cooking. The results are good, very tasty and it's fun to make, but I do always notice just how much milk goes in for not a great deal of cheese at the end. It works great however when the shop have bottles of milk on their last day for sale cheaply.

adelight

it ends up more like curd cheese, really tasty and extra tangy if you use red wine vinegar instead of lemon juice.
it's hard to know exactly how many calories, fat etc ends up in the finished cheese so it's best to just buy ready made if you're concerned by stuff like that. probably better value to buy ready made too unless you get hold of very cheap milk.

Penny-Pincher!!

EstherH wrote: »

Just wondering then if you can do it with skimmed milk to make low fat cottage cheese? This is a revelation to me, I've never heard of it before either.

Esther x

I think full fat milk is only 4% fat anyway, but they specifically said full fat on the recipe, so maybe the low fat milk doesn't curdle as much?

We usually pick up milk very cheap when reduced and freeze it.

Oscar_the_Pug

You can also use the whey bit for making soda bread, nom nom

zippychick

this older thread may help? do let us know how it goes

Ill merge this later

ZIP

iQueen

I make a nice 'cream' cheese by adding a squeeze of lemon juice to Greek Yoghurt (full/low fat, work), straight from the pot. I strain it through a brand new pop-sock, twisted round the sink tap, for 24 hrs. Add fruit, or chopped fresh herbs and a little salt.