Kochkäse — German Cooked Cheese from Farmer's Cheese
A wonderfully creamy, incredibly tender, and tasty homemade cheese!
Andrey Skvortsov
Recipe author
Kochkäse — German Cooked Cheese from Farmer's Cheese
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 52 %
15 g
Fats 48 %
14 g
Carbohydrates 0 %
0 g
189 kcal
GI:
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- Break the farmer's cheese down into a smooth, fine, crumbly mass so the finished cheese has no white lumps of unmelted curd. Add a teaspoon each of salt and baking soda and mix the cheese well again. One teaspoon of salt makes for a mildly salty cheese; add more if you like it saltier. Add 2 eggs, mix again, pack it down, and let the mixture rest for 4–6 hours (if you're short on time, 2 hours will do). After 4–6 hours, you can melt the cheese. By now the curd mass is no longer loose; without stirring, drop it in small pieces into a heavy-bottomed (or cast-iron) skillet greased with butter and melt it completely. The result may turn out runny or sometimes stretchy — it depends on the fat content of the curd, the size of the eggs, and how long it sat with the baking soda. Stir the cheese mass gently over moderate heat; a brown crust will form on the bottom of the pan.
- Pour this hot melted cheese into a deep dish. Carefully lift the crust off the bottom of the pan before it sets and sticks — that crispy crust is a nice, tasty bonus. If you like, stir anise, dill, or raisins into the hot cheese — the flavor of homemade cheese can be whatever you want it to be! Leave the melted cheese in the dish, and once it has set, cut it into pieces of whatever size you like.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese of 40% fat content - 466 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese of 20% fat content - 233 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese of 18% fat content - 226 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese of 10% fat content - 156 kcal/100g
- Low-fat cottage cheese - 75 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese with sour cream - 260 kcal/100g
- Fruit cottage cheese - 147 kcal/100g
- Soft dietary cottage cheese - 170 kcal/100g
- Vitalinia cottage cheese - 64 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese 'morning' ( 'danone') without sugar - 91 kcal/100g
- Cottage cheese - 156 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Baking soda - 0 kcal/100g
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