Goat milk has long been valued for its beneficial quality.
This healing drink was given to weak, painful children.
Goat milk and products from it will help if a person is allergic to cow protein.
It is rich in various nutrients, more fat, has a pleasant taste.
In addition, you can cook delicious cottage cheese and no less wonderful cheese from goat's milk.
To make the dishes delicious, you need to try very little.
The basic principles of preparing cottage cheese from goat milk and dishes based on it
The main rule for obtaining delicious products is the use of high-quality milk. Quality assurance - healthy animals and proper care for them if raw materials are purchased from owners of private farmsteads.
Possible use for cottage cheese and goat milk from the store.
The basic principle of preparing cottage cheese is the same as that made from cow's milk - it is fermented, heated to a certain temperature, and protein is curled. The raw materials are reclined on cheesecloth, whey is draining, and cottage cheese is obtained.
The difference from cow's milk is that the goat is fermented longer - about 3 days.
Goat cottage cheese can be eaten as an independent dish, seasoned with sour cream, milk, cream, sugar or salt, garlic and herbs. It can also be the basis for desserts or raw materials for the preparation of cheeses. Goat milk curd is added to salads and minced meat. And of course, this is a wonderful product for baby food.
Cooking goat cheese
This is a basic recipe explaining how to cook goat cheese. The volume of raw materials can be different, on average 3-4 liters of milk are required to get a kilogram of cottage cheese. The main thing is to ferment it well and in no case to overheat, otherwise the cottage cheese will be tough.
Ingredients
• Goat milk - 3 liters
• A pinch of salt or a spoonful of fermented milk product - kefir, yogurt, the same goat milk, already sour.
Cooking method
Put milk in a warm place.
Salt or add a dairy product.
Under good conditions, raw materials will turn sour in a day or two, and it may take more time.
It is not difficult to distinguish skim milk even visually: it becomes heterogeneous, the protein rises, and serum forms from below.
It is necessary to pour the raw materials into the pan and put on fire.
Heat, occasionally stirring with a slotted spoon.
In the villages there is a rule - to heat the future cottage cheese while it suffers a hand. As soon as the raw materials become hotter, immediately turn off.
It is advisable to let stand for half an hour, then strain.
Put cheesecloth in a colander and discard the mass.
Serum will collect at the bottom - it can be drunk or used for baking.
Tie gauze and hang for a couple of hours.
Then take out the strained clot - the curd is ready!
Cooking goat cheese in a jar
Another option for cooking cottage cheese - plus it is that it is cooked directly in the bank. Moreover, the jar can be of any volume. It is convenient to make it for the baby at a time, using a very small portion of milk - for example, half a liter. And no need to wash a large pot! This recipe uses a three-liter jar.
Ingredients
• 3 liters of goat milk.
Cooking method
Milk can be purchased two to three days, this will simplify the process of ripening.
Put the milk in a warm place and wait until the yogurt is gathered on top.
In a large pan put a napkin or towel, set a jar of yogurt.
Pour water into a saucepan and heat over a fire.
It is necessary to use a kitchen thermometer for liquids or to check the degree of heating of yogurt with a clean hand.
Periodically, the contents of the jar must be stirred to warm evenly.
When the milk temperature exceeds 40 degrees Celsius or the hand ceases to endure, it's time to turn it off.
Leave the jar in the water for half an hour, then drop it on cheesecloth.
When the whey completely drains, the cottage cheese can be eaten.
Goat cheese curd cheese
You can make wonderful goat cheese from cottage cheese. And for the recipe you also need goat milk. And the result is a dense, moderately fat, tasty beautiful cheese. It can be used on sandwiches or in salads.
Ingredients
• 3 liters of sour goat milk
• 3 liters of fresh goat milk
• 2 eggs
• Salt to taste
• Baking soda - a teaspoon
• Butter 100 grams.
Cooking method
Cook cottage cheese from sour milk according to the above recipe.
Place fresh milk in a pan and boil.
Pour curd into it, stir.
Cook over low heat for about 20 minutes.
Turn off, recline on cheesecloth or colander.
When the liquid drains, place the mass in a pan, add eggs, oil, salt, soda.
Put in a water bath, wait until the water boils and hold for 15 minutes.
Stir constantly.
Pour the hot mass into a mold - an enameled cup, a container or just a cropped plastic bottle.
Leave to cool, then put in the refrigerator.
If desired, you can add any spices along with salt and soda.
Casserole with goat cheese curd and pumpkin
A beautiful, golden-orange, tender and very tasty casserole is obtained from cottage cheese and pumpkin. And very useful due to its components. Preparing is quite simple. The composition has semolina, if you wish, you can remove it from the recipe - the dish will be more moist and soft. Manka helps to keep a better shape and comes structural.
Ingredients
• A kilogram of goat milk curd
• 300 grams of pumpkin
• 2 eggs
• A glass of sugar - can be adjusted to taste
• A pinch of salt
• Vanillin on a knife cone
• Two tablespoons of semolina
• Oil to lubricate the mold.
Cooking method
Grate pumpkin randomly on any grater.
Grind goat curd with sugar.
Add pumpkin, eggs, salt, vanillin to the cottage cheese, optionally semolina.
Mix.
Grease the baking container with oil - this can be a multicooker bowl, and an oven mold
Lay out the mass, flatten.
Put in the oven at medium temperature for 30 minutes.
If a multi-cooker is used, then the Baking mode is suitable, the time is 40-60 minutes
It is better to serve the casserole chilled or at least warm, but not hot.
As an addition, sour cream, condensed milk, jam are suitable.
Khachapuri with goat milk curd
Khachapuri - a dish of the cuisine of the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, has been widely used in other places. This is baking in the form of peculiar pies with cheese or curd filling. This recipe uses not only goat curd, but also for dough - yogurt from goat milk.
Ingredients
For the test:
• 500 ml of sour goat - you can and cow - milk
• 10 g yeast
• 100 ml of vegetable oil
• Kilogram of flour
• A tablespoon of sugar
• A teaspoon of salt
• Egg
For filling:
• Goat cheese curd 500 g
• Garlic - 3 large prongs
• Eggs - 2 pieces
• Suneli hops - a teaspoon
• Salt - a pinch
• A bunch of cilantro.
• Vegetable oil.
Cooking method
You need to prepare cottage cheese from sour goat milk in advance.
To prepare the dough, slightly warm the yogurt.
Dissolve salt, sugar, yeast in it.
Let stand. Ten minutes later, beat in an egg, add oil, add flour.
Make soft, but not batter.
Put in a warm place for proofing.
After the second warming, the dough is ready for making khachapuri.
By this time, make the filling.
Pass garlic through a press.
Chop greens.
Mix all this with cottage cheese, add salt, spices, eggs, mix thoroughly.
Divide the dough into pieces.
To take each with hands lubricated with vegetable oil, stretch in the form of cakes.
Put the filling on top and wrap it in the form of an envelope, bending the edges upwards to the center with the corners.
Pinch the seams, lay on a greased baking sheet.
Let stand warm for 15 minutes.
Bake in the oven at an average temperature of 20-30 minutes.
In the end, you can reduce the fever.
Cool and serve with various drinks.
Souffle based on goat cheese and cottage cheese
Simple, gentle, tasty, healthy - all that can be said about this souffle. You can cook a large form or immediately arrange in portions. It uses goat cheese and goat cheese.
Ingredients
• 100 grams of goat cheese or regular hard cheese
• 200 grams of goat milk curd
• 4 eggs
• Mold lubricant
• Salt to taste
• Freshly ground black pepper.
Cooking method
Grind cheese with a grater.
Add cheese, egg yolks to the cottage cheese, salt and pepper. Mix.
Beat the whites well and add to the total mass, gently stirring.
Grease a mold or molds.
Spread out the mass and put in the oven.
Bake for about 20 minutes at medium temperature.
Remove from the oven and serve.
Tricks and secrets of preparing goat milk based cottage cheese dishes
Goat milk is oily, so this moment should be considered when planning the diet, if you include cottage cheese from this milk.
Goat milk has a specific smell, which not everyone can taste. Therefore, spices and herbs are very welcome in goat curd dishes.
Goat cottage cheese can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week. The best conditions are earthenware dishes covered with a napkin that allows air to pass through.
Goat milk cottage cheese can be easily frozen, and after thawing it can be used for various dishes, for example, baking. But goat cheese is not worth doing in this way.
As an addition to the salad, goat cheese curd goes well with fresh vegetables - tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, sweet peppers.
Another option for a salad of appetizers using goat cottage cheese is to cook a soft mass with spices, salt, garlic or onions, herbs, sour cream, unsweetened yogurt or mayonnaise to the main product. This mass can be used for stuffing or as a filling for sandwiches.
