Cream cheese: what is it, the names of the varieties and what can be cooked with it?

Recently, cream cheese has often been used in cooking.From it you can make different delicious desserts, sushi and other dishes. However, not everywhere it can be purchased. Therefore, many people want to know how to cook it at home.

This cheese is in many ways similar to cottage cheese. It was named because of the main ingredient, due to which it looks soft and gentle. This ingredient is thick and aromatic cream. Ready cream cheese is packaged in the package while still hot. This distribution slightly increases its shelf life. And the use of special technologies makes it possible to keep all useful substances to the maximum. In addition, different types of fillers are often added to such cheese, which makes it taste unusual.

There are many types of cream cheeses. These are varieties such as Feta, Philadelphia and others, a little less known. Cooking cream cheese for yourself, and even at home - is quite difficult and long work. However, the result will exceed all expectations, because you get a large number of the most delicate product at a low price. In addition, its taste will be much better than the store. Yes, and those additives, which are used by many manufacturers to enhance the taste, there will definitely not be.

The composition of cream cheese includes a large amount of fats and proteins, which makes it a very popular product among mothers who care about the health of babies. So, for a hundred grams of cream cheese comes:

• six percent protein;
• thirty-three to eighty percent fat, depending on the fat content of the cream;
• four percent carbohydrate.

In the cream cheese are lactic acids, as well as a large number of different vitamins. It also has the necessary iron for the body. Therefore, including such a product in your diet, you can help your body:

1. the content in the cheese of a substance such as choline, can significantly lower cholesterol in the blood;
2. potassium has a beneficial effect on the heart as well as the circulatory system;
3. iron strengthens not only teeth, but also bones;
4. regularly eating such a product, you can maintain in good shape and nails, and human hair;
5. cream cheese helps to improve metabolism, and also significantly strengthens the immune system.

However, all these useful properties are not a sign that you can overeat with cheese. This is a very high-calorie product, so eating it regularly can even lead to obesity, especially if you combine cream cheese with pasta or bread. Also during pregnancy, the product should be consumed in small doses, as this may affect the baby. Quite fatty cheeses should not be eaten by those people who have problems with blood vessels.

Since most of the existing cream cheeses are very difficult to find in stores, many want to learn how to cook them by themselves. In addition, at home you can cook any type of cheese.

Cream, kefir and ryazhenka make a very tasty and healthy cheese called Feta. Necessary components for cooking it at home:

• four hundred grams of fat sour cream, up to twenty-five percent;
• four hundred and fifty grams of four percent ryazhenka;
• four hundred and fifty grams of the fattest kefir.

Step by step recipe.

1. First you need to freeze all the components. To make it more convenient, you need to buy all the products in plastic bags.
2. After a certain time they must be removed from the freezer. Then cut the packaging material and transfer the entire contents into a tight bag.
3. After that, everything must be shifted to a colander, which was pre-installed above the desired vessel. All the serum should flow into it. This process should last up to ten hours.
4. When the right time has passed, the mass should be transferred to the prepared dishes and mix well. Feta cream cheese is ready to eat. It remains to put it in the fridge or use for its intended purpose. From the whey, you can bake pancakes or pancakes and, in addition, spread them with cooked cheese.

In order to make such a famous cheese at home, You will need the following components:

• half a liter of cream, which is twenty-five percent fat;
• half a liter of cream with thirty percent fat;
• fifty milliliters of wine vinegar, it can be replaced with lemon juice.

Step by step recipe.

1. Both types of cream must be poured into a saucepan that has a rather thick bottom and put on the stove. All you need to heat up to eighty degrees, avoiding boiling. Therefore, it is necessary that the house was a thermometer.
2. After that, the cream must be removed from the heat and add wine vinegar or lemon juice. Then everything must be very quickly mixed. The mass should be thick.
3. After that, the container is placed again on the stove and heated to the same temperature and kept in this state for three minutes.
4. Then everything needs to be cooled to room temperature.
5. Put a thick cloth on the prepared colander and pour the cooled mass into it. Capacity along with a colander must be put in the fridge for a day so that excess moisture is gone.
6. After this time, you can get tasty and thick cheese, which will have a creamy consistency.

This type of cheese is used to create many snacks, as well as for the preparation of desserts. In addition, cream cheeses do not require long maturation. Already on the second day they can be used as intended. To make such cream cheese, you will need the following ingredients:

• half a liter of fatty kefir or natural yogurt, which has no additives;
• one cup of sour cream, up to twenty percent;
• one tablespoon of lemon juice;
• some salt.

Step by step recipe.

1. It is necessary to connect all the components. After that, pour everything into a colander, covered with dense matter.
2. The edges of the fabric to put together and put up a heavy load. In this state, the mass should be a day.
3. After that, the cheese must be shifted to the cooked pot and you can start tasting.

Required components:

• 1 l of milk;
• 1 kg of cottage cheese, low-fat;
• 3 eggs;
• 100 g butter;
• 1 tbsp. l soda;
• some salt.

Step by step recipe.

1. First you need to pour milk into the pan and put curd in it. After that, you need to put it on the fire and cook the mixture for ten minutes, stirring constantly.
2. At this time, the curd will start to get a little bit bulky.
3. In a colander prepared in advance and covered with gauze, it is necessary to pour out the whole mass. It should flow in just three minutes. You can speed up the process a bit by pressing the curd.
4. The mass should be similar to clay. It is necessary to shift it to another vessel and add the remaining components. They need to be mixed very well by hand.
5. After that, you need to put the pot on the fire and heat the mass until everything melts. After the need to cook for another seven minutes, while constantly stirring.
6. The finished product should be well behind the walls of the tank. It should be shifted to the container and cover so as not to form a crust. After that, you can put in the refrigerator.

Cream cheese can be used in many dishes. In addition, you can find recipes where it is used. It can be:

• sauces or soups;
• sandwiches or pasta for snacks;
• a large number of desserts in which cheese can be the basis for the cream;
• sushi and rolls;
• fruit salads, where cheese is the dressing.

It is worth considering a few delicious dishes that can not be cooked without tender cream cheese.

Required components:

• one hundred grams of fresh shortbread;
• thirty five grams of butter;
• four hundred grams of mascarpone;
• two eggs;
• two hundred grams of fat sour cream;
• one hundred and twenty-five grams of sugar;
• a teaspoon of corn flour;
• vanilla to taste;
• lemon juice from its half;
• fresh raspberries;
• a little icing sugar.

Step by step recipe.

1. First you need to heat the oven to one hundred and seventy degrees.
2. Grind cookies in a blender finely enough. It can also be done by hand.
3. The butter must be melted, put the crushed crumb into it and mix everything thoroughly.
4. This mass must fill in the form for cheesecakes and level everything.
5. After that, put them in a preheated oven and bake for five minutes.
6. Then they need to pull out, but do not turn off the oven.
7. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, you need to combine both eggs, half sugar, one hundred grams of sour cream and all the flour. All these components must be whipped with a mixer.
8. Then you need to add lemon juice and vanilla, and then mix.
9. This mass must be laid out on the basis of cookies. In the middle of each of them put one raspberry.
10. Forms again need to put in the oven. You need to bake them for about half an hour.
11. After that, they must be removed from the oven again, without disconnecting it. Next, it is important to let the cheesecakes cool down a bit.
12. Meanwhile, you need to whip the remaining sugar and sour cream to a thick cream and spread them with the cooled cookies.
13. Then they should be put on for another five minutes in the oven. The finished cheesecakes should cool down, after which they must be refrigerated for five hours.
14. Then they should be removed and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Required components:

• three glasses of any fresh berries;
• half a glass of white sugar;
• one hundred twenty-five grams of tender cheese;
• half a liter of heavy cream;
• two hundred grams of natural sour cream;
• vanillin.

Step by step recipe.

1. In a small container, you need to combine 2/3 of the total number of berries and half the sugar.
2. Then you need to put the pot on the fire and cook the contents for eight minutes.
3. Mass should grind through a sieve and leave to cool.
4. In a separate vessel, you need to whip vanillin, sugar residue and cream cheese. The result should be a thick and fluffy mass.
5. After that, you need to add the cream and beat everything again.
6. Then you need to add sour cream and whip the mixture for the last time.
7. We need to take four large glasses and put them on the bottom with a mixture of cream. Make another layer of berry sauce, then a layer of fresh berries. After that, repeat the layers to the top of the glasses.
8. Top can be decorated with berries. Tasty parfait can be tasted right away.

Required components:

• two hundred and twenty-five grams of cream cheese;
• two hundred and twenty-five grams of canned pineapple;
• two and a half glasses of coconut chips.

Step by step recipe.

1. Pineapple must be well dried with paper towels.
2. After that, it must be crushed.
3. Cheese should be mixed with pineapple and sent to the fridge.
4. After half an hour from the cooled mass it is necessary to roll small balls and roll them well in coconut chips.
5. After that, they must be placed in the refrigerator for six hours.

You can store cream cheese in different ways. It all depends on its type.For example, feta cheese can be stored in brine, then the shelf life will be infinite. So that it is not too salty when serving, it must be soaked in milk or mineral water. Other cheeses can be preserved for up to four months. The main thing is to observe the temperature conditions and the right conditions.

The temperature should be no more than six degrees. Dishes must also be properly selected and made from polymeric materials. It is impossible to freeze cream cheese, as it will lose its integrity and will become stratified. In addition, in this case, the product loses its rich taste, and the dishes cooked with it are not the same as with fresh ingredients. Cooking cream cheese at home is easy. It turns out tasty, tender, and most importantly - natural and healthy!

How to make cream cheese "Philadelphia", see the next video.