How to Make Fresh Ricotta at Home

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Resting time in the refrigerator: 3-4 hours
difficulty: Media

How to make fresh ricotta at home

Recipes based on ricotta cheese they are precious: they solve the problem of a lunch, a dinner or even simply of a snack for children. They're very simple dishes, rich in nutrients, healthy, and waste-free. Especially if we can make ricotta in home, with an elementary procedure, without additional costs and without running the risk of buying ricotta that then goes bad very quickly.

Making ricotta at home is very simple, here she is recipe:

Ingredients (for a 250g ricotta loaf)

1 liter of fresh milk
1 level teaspoon of salt
3 tablespoons of lemon juice

Necessary

Ricotta mold (or basket)
Fine mesh strainer or colander
Small saucepan
Wooden spoon

Preparation

Pour the milk into the saucepan and bring to a boil. Also add the salt and the juice of Lemon; and stir with a wooden spoon. After about ten minutes, you'll notice the milk begin to condense: turn off the heat and continue stirring.
Collect the flakes in a colander that have formed and place them to drain in the ricotta mold.
Put everything in the fridge for about 3-4 hours, turn the ricotta over and serve.

Delicious to enjoy spread on bread, delicious to accompany with appetizers of vegetables, ideal for preparing desserts, la ricotta cheese it is a very food versatile, rich in nutrition and flavor. Here's another one for successful corporate training to prepare it at home, in a simple way and economic.

Ingredients (for one cup of ricotta)

4 cups of milk
1 cup cream
2 small organic, untreated lemons

Preparation

Heat the milk over low heat up to 32,3-33,8 degrees and add a little bit of cream which will make the ricotta creamier.
Remove the mixture from the heat andStirring gently, add the strained lemon juice, which acts similarly to rennet. Place in cheesecloth and let drain for about an hour to remove the whey.
Knot the four edges of the gauze and hang it on a rack for 10-15 minutes so that the remaining whey can drain freely. The more you drain, the drier the ricotta will be.

An advice

You can perfume your ricotta cheese homemade with the addition of:

2 sprigs of rosemary
2 leaves of sage
2 sprigs of you Thyme;
2 spoons of honey
A few edible flower petals, such as carnation.

Chop the herbs and mix them together with ricotta cheese in half with honey. Before serving, put more honey on the ricotta cheese and garnish with petals.

How to make fresh ricotta at home