Make homemade citrus cheese by simply using an orange in boiling milk. Quick and delicious, here is the recipe.
Few people make cheese at home , often for fear that it takes too long or is complicated . However, with the recipe that we will see today you can enjoy a fresh and natural citrus cheese in a few hours and with a few euros . To prepare it we only need oranges, lemons and milk .
Why make homemade cheese with an orange in boiling milk?
Making cheese at home makes sense for several reasons . Firstly, it allows you to obtain a fresh and high quality product , since you can personally control each stage of production, from the selection of milk to maturation . This allows us to obtain a healthier and more natural product than industrially produced cheese .
In addition, you can customize the cheese to your taste by adding ingredients such as aromatic herbs or spices . Even for the little ones, making cheese at home is a fun and educational activity. And with the recipe that we explain in the next paragraph , it will also be a treat for the palate .
How to Make Citrus Cheese
To prepare our delicious citrus cheese we need: 2 liters of milk , two lemons , an orange and 1 teaspoon of salt. Let’s start by pouring two liters of milk into a saucepan and bringing it to a boil .
While the milk is heating, we take two lemons . Remove the peels and put them aside . Then squeeze the lemons in a juicer . Now pour the lemon juice into a bowl and filter it through a sieve . Let’s move on to the orange : remove the peel and keep it , remove the peel from the segments and cut them into small pieces.
Now let’s go back to the milk and add a teaspoon of salt . Then add the lemon juice and the chopped orange . Leave for 5 minutes , at the end we will have sour milk . At this point we can take the pan off the heat and pour the curd into a mold .
As a mold, you can use a small sieve covered with a cloth . This way, we can pour the cheese onto the cloth in the sieve and place a bowl underneath so that the whey produced by the cheese can be filtered and drained into the bowl . After that, we cover the cheese with the cloth and place a weight , such as a pot , on top.
We leave the cheese to rest for at least an hour and then put it in the fridge for two hours . At the end we will have a delicious citrus cheese that also serves as a ricotta and orange dessert .
Prepare a citrus herbal tea from the peels
This recipe does not generate any waste . You can also use the orange and lemon peels that you reserved beforehand . We will use them to make a citrus-flavored herbal tea . To do this, we will cut the citrus peels that we reserved into small pieces, put them in a kettle and add boiling water . Then let everything brew for a few minutes . This will give us a tasty and fragrant herbal tea that we can drink in moments of relaxation .
