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By combining milk with lemon juice you will get something that you may not expect. Come and see what happens when you cook these two ingredients together, you will be surprised.
Maybe you didn’t know it but by combining milk with lemon in just a few steps you will get ricotta . There are those who use animal rennet or those who use lemon to make simple homemade ricotta. The recipe is really simple and the steps are not that long, so you can try it too.
Through this preparation that we will see below we will obtain two products with only 3 liters of milk. In addition to ricotta, you will also get primosale precisely because ricotta, as the term itself suggests, is cooked twice and is therefore obtained after the preparation of a cheese.
Ricotta is not considered a real cheese, but it is still part of the dairy family and is considered one of the noblest. Its protein quality is higher than that of cheese while its lipid content is lower. So let’s now see how to make ricotta in detail.
Recipe to make homemade ricotta
What you will need is good fresh milk, preferably from a nearby farm or a trusted seller . Therefore, for this type of preparation it is better to use milk that is not from the supermarket, but if you can’t get it, it will also be fine.
Therefore, there are only two ingredients: 3 liters of milk and the juice of two lemons . Below we detail all the steps to follow to obtain your homemade ricotta :
- Boil 1.5 L of fresh milk in a steel saucepan with salt to obtain the first salt.
- As soon as the milk starts to boil, add the juice of 1 lemon and beat.
- After a few minutes the serum will begin to separate and that will be the time to remove it from the heat and let it rest for 5 minutes.
- Continued on next page
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