Homemade cream cheese - philadelphia - 2 ingredients
Learn to make your own cream cheese at home with only 2 ingredients !
Ingredients
Preparation
Mix the yogurts with salt.
Put a sieve in a bowl leaving space in the bottom so the whey can flow in it.
Put a large gauze on the sieve and pour the yogurt + salt mix in it.
Close the gauze with a clamp and refrigerate the bowl + sieve + gauze during one night so the whey can go out.
The day after, all the whey will be in the bowl. You can use it :
* To replace milk in your brioche recipes
* To marinate meat
* In a smoothie
You can pour it in a ice cube tray and freeze it for later.
Open the gauze and you have the cream cheese in it ! Magic !
Spread it on a toast or keep it to make one of our recipes !
Observations
* You can add dried herbs or spices to your mix to have a flavored cream cheese.
* With 4 yogurts (about 500 gr) you'll have about 160 gr cream cheese.
Questions
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Comments
I think this recipe is awesome! Thanks for sharing!
That is not cream cheese!!! Cream cheese requires whole milk, heavy cream, buttermilk culture (not buttermilk!), calcium chloride, rennet (for cheese making), and cheese salt. The ingredients must be heated to a certain temperature to produce curds, which then need to be drained.
What you made is drained yogurt, also known as Greek yogurt. If you drain it further, you end up with Labneh which is a much thicker yogurt that has the texture of a very soft cream cheese. It is NOT real cream cheese!
Love it and the easy steps in the process. Thank you very much!
