How to make Cottage cheese at home Recipe
Paneer or cottage cheese is a great ingredient in many dishes like gravies, rice and desserts.When made freshly at home, nothing can beat its taste.
Ingredients
- 2 lts milk
- 1 large lemon
Directions
- * Boil 2 lts of milk in a thick bottomed pan, for around 15 to 20 minutes.
- * Dilute the juice of one large lemon in 3-4 spoons water, and pour it on the boiled milk.
- * The milk will immediately separate into water and fat.
- * Keep stirring for around 5 more minutes.
- * Now take a large bowl, and place a muslin cloth over the mouth of the bowl.
- * Slowly pour the milk on the cloth, such that the water ultimately goes into the bowl through the cloth, and fat gets collected in the cloth.
- * Now carefully wash the fat collected in the cloth with cold running water for around a minute, so as to cleanse the sour taste of lemon.
- * After a while,when the fat cools down, carefully hold the ends of the cloth together, and make it into a bag; and then squeeze the excess water out of the fatty deposit.
- * Take the fat in a plate, and shape it using a spatula.
- * Now place a heavy object on it for around half an hour, to make the paneer firm and hard.
- * Paneer is ready, and now it can be either cubed for using it in gravies or pulav, or shredded or grated for using in parathas or burji.
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Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per Recipe | %DV |
|---|---|
| Recipe Size 30g | |
| Calories 9 | |
| Calories from Fat 1 | 11% |
| Total Fat 0.09g | 0% |
| Saturated Fat 0.01g | 0% |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 0mg | 0% |
| Sodium 1mg | 0% |
| Potassium 42mg | 1% |
| Total Carbs 2.86g | 1% |
| Dietary Fiber 0.9g | 3% |
| Sugars 0.77g | 1% |
| Protein 0.34g | 1% |
