This easy cream cheese recipe from scratch takes 20 minutes and 3 ingredients only to be ready. A quick easy recipe to be done at home today.
When you read the 2 words “from scratch”, you may have thought that it may be a very long process to produce cream cheese. However, cream cheese is done in no time. This easy cream cheese recipe from scratch doesn’t take more than 20 minutes to be done. It is a quick easy recipe that you can squeeze your time to do at home.
What do you need? Just three ingredients: milk, vinegar or lemon juice, and salt. Which milk? This is totally up to you. For a rich thick cream cheese, you have to use full-fat milk. However, this statement does not mean by all means that you cannot make cream cheese with low-fat milk per se. As a lactose intolerant person, I use lactose-free milk to my homemade cream cheese from scratch at home and believe me, I am very satisfied with the results.
Because it is healthier and tastier. The answer is that simple. Unlike store-bought cream cheese, easy homemade cream cheese is made with simple ingredients without any added flavors, preservatives, or other ingredients to make look richer in consistency and with a prolonged shelf life. You do not want your kids or yourself to consume these additional ingredients whenever you want to have a sandwich of cream cheese or your preferred cheesecake, right?
You can always make homemade cream cheese from scratch with simple ingredients and still get a perfect rich creamy consistency as a result.
If you have checked my recipe before on how to make ricotta cheese then you have a way through to make this recipe at home. Making homemade cream cheese is similar to making ricotta cheese. You will have to boil the milk to a certain temperature, then add vinegar or lemon juice.
At this stage, you will see the curd is separated from the whey. Wait a bit, transfer the curd over a cheesecloth, drain the whey, blend the cheese and you are done making this easy cream cheese recipe from scratch.
The choices are plenty. Here are some ideas for you:
Cream cheese is a dairy product made with fresh milk. Furthermore, homemaking this cheese means that no added preservatives are there to prolong its shelf time. Hence, it is best to use homemade cream cheese within 10 to 12 days at the latest.
However, make sure to store your cream cheese in an air-tight container in the fridge.
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This easy cream cheese recipe from scratch takes 20 minutes and 3 ingredients only to be ready. A quick easy recipe to be done at home today.
Calories: 87 kcal per serving | Serving size: 1 serving spoon | Number of servings: 8
Total Fat 0 g | Saturated Fat 0 g | Cholesterol 5 mg | Sodium 262 mg | Potassium 412 mg | Total Carbohydrate 12 g | Dietary Fiber 0 g | Sugars 12 g | Protein 8 g | Vitamin A: 11% | Vitamin C: 4% | Calcium: 32% | Iron: 0%
* The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet