How to make curd cheese from kefir, which will be cheaper and healthier than store cheese

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Many people love curd cheese, but due to the price of a quality product, they do not always buy it. However, there is a way to cook it yourself, spending money only on kefir, the cost of which is absolutely low. At the same time, there is nothing superfluous in the composition.

Ingredients and preparation method

To make curd cheese, you only need one liter of kefir

To make curd cheese you need to take:

one liter of kefir, the fat content of which is 3.2%;

a pinch of salt;

greens optional.

You can start cooking. We place kefir in a bag overnight in the freezer - for about ten to twelve hours.

After the time has elapsed, we take out the frozen kefir from the package and place it in a deep bowl on a sieve

After the time has elapsed, we take out the frozen kefir from the package. We take a deep enough bowl, put a sieve there. It must be covered with gauze folded in two layers. Put kefir on cheesecloth.

After twelve hours, a homogeneous curd mass will be obtained

From time to time, drain the whey from the bowl. Kefir will melt after about seven to eight hours. Cover it with gauze on top and put a press on it. In this form, we send the bowl with all the contents to the refrigerator for ten to twelve hours. As a result, we get a homogeneous mass.

You can add a pinch of salt, herbs to the cheese, or you can add nothing at all. And so it turns out very tasty. It remains to mix everything and the product is ready. At the exit from this amount of kefir, about 200-250 grams of delicious natural curd cheese is obtained.

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