How to Make Cream Cheese at Home

Homemade Cream Cheese

 Ingredients :

• milk - 1 litre
• lemon juice/vinegar - 3 tbs
• a pinch of salt

Method

• heat up milk in heavy bottomed sauce pan on medium high heat
• stir occasionally
• when it begin to boil add in the lemon juice little by little 
• stir continuously until the milk curdles
• now remove it from heat 
• place a sieve over a bowl and line it with a muslin cloth
• strain it
• keep it for drain about 15 minutes
• transfer the curd into a mixer jar and add a pinch of salt
• grind it into a fine paste along with 1-  2 tbs whey
• now the homemade cream cheese is ready
• you can store it up to 7 days in refrigerator

 Note :

• the whey can be used to knead chapati dough or to make gravy