Recipe for Adyghe cheese and dishes from it

We bring to your attention the simplest recipe of Adyghe cheese, which includes exclusively dairy products. To start the process, we need a primary starter-serum. What it is?

To get the serum you need to take a liter of yogurt or curdled milk and cook on a small fire cottage cheese. It will turn out a little, a few grams, but it's fresh and you can eat it in the course of work. We decided on cottage cheese, we need serum.

All the amount will be poured into a small container and leave for a couple of days to sour at room temperature. The acidity of the whey is not always enough for the leaven of the next portion to prepare a real product using our recipe for Adyghe cheese. For reliability, add 200 g of curdled milk or kefir to the serum.

Further even easier:

• 3 - 4 liters of fresh milk to bring in a saucepan to a mild boil;
• As soon as the foam appears, you need to pour the acid serum;
• Stir until the flakes start to form and heat until the serum becomes a clear greenish color. This means that milk has given us its protein;
• When the whey has departed, in a hot kind, shift our received mass of cheese into a colander and form a neat head, while the cheese is hot, slightly primed it;
• After 15 minutes salt on both sides.

That's the whole procedure! Adyghe cheese does not need to ripen; it can be eaten as soon as it cools down, and how many dishes can be cooked with it: both fry and in pita bread, and use as a filling for pancakes.

The remaining serum can be used for repeated souring by adding a glass of yogurt or curdled milk to it and making another dish using the above recipe of Adyghe cheese.

Now let's look at how to make delicious dishes from Adyghe cheese on the example of ravioli with vegetables and cheese. You can start with a vegetable filling. 150 g of Bulgarian yellow pepper cut into not very large cubes. Green fresh zucchini (100 g) is also cut into small cubes. 100 g of carrots rub on a coarse grater. Colorful stuffing should be fried with vegetable oil in a heated frying pan. Roasting vegetables should be easy, so that the vegetables do not lose their shape and do not strongly soften.

Then you can start cooking the cheese filling, using gentle soft Adyghe cheese. It will take 150 g. Cut the cheese into slices, place it in a deep plate and knead it with a fork. Adyghe cheese is quite elastic, and to make it more elastic, you need to add 20 g of butter. Also in the cheese filling you can put a bouquet of herbs to taste: fresh basil, dill and parsley. Spicy aroma is perfectly combined with Adyghe cheese. It remains to whip and add one egg, so that the cheese mass is elastic and viscous.

Cheese filling is ready, vegetables are cold, now they need to be connected. It turns out very appetizing, fragrant, elegant stuffing.

To prepare the dough for ravioli , pour 200 g of sifted flour into a large container. Flour, sifted through a sieve, is saturated with oxygen, becomes airy and light. Form a hill in the middle of the vessel, and in the center make a small depression, into which it is necessary to break one egg. You can add 1 tablespoon of milk powder, it will give the flour and dough a very delicate creamy taste, and the dough will become elastic. Dough better to knead with your hands, connecting the egg with flour. You can roll it out on a cutting board, lightly sprinkling it with flour. Roll the dough into a thin cake. You can give the ravioli any shape. Finger tightly press the edges. It remains only to boil them in salted water. Literally 3 minutes after surfacing ravioli will be ready. They can be decorated with rings of pepper and a twig of green. Eat with pleasure!

You can prepare numerous dishes of cheese, the recipes of which are varied, and in this article they can not be counted. Here is another interesting salad recipe: 300 g of Adyghe cheese, 150-200 g of Chinese cabbage, 200-250 g of tomatoes, 200 g of ham, 1-2 salt cucumbers depending on the size, 1 tbsp. A spoon of sesame seeds, 1-2 cloves of garlic, half a large sweet red pepper, unrefined olive oil, about 50 g, red hot pepper on the tip of the knife, optional black pepper, 1 tsp. Oregano. Vegetables should be washed and dried from moisture on a towel. All the ingredients, except for cheese and cucumbers, cut into thin strips. 100 grams of cheese crumble, 200 grams of cheese cut into small thin plates, and if possible - the same fine straws.

Put on the dish a thin layer of chopped Chinese cabbage, then plates of Adyghe cheese, top half of the salted cucumber, the next layer of sweet pepper, then the ham, then chop the finely chopped garlic or garlic pastry over the ham layer, then spread the tomatoes, the last layer - the crumbled Adyghe We mix the cheese with the remaining cucumbers and put it on top.

Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Laying out each layer, a little pressing, press the previous one. Spices are added to the olive oil and pour the salad on top. Salad can be prepared at once in separate portions, you can make a large flat salad bowl and spread out, gently pulling a flat wide spatula and holding a serving from above with a spoon. If the spices and garlic are mixed with olive oil and left in the heat for a day, the dressing will acquire a characteristic, interesting flavor.

Adyghe cheese does not have a pronounced aroma, it's unpleasant, so it's up to the hostess how appropriate this option is. Salad can be prepared and mixed in a salad bowl with all the ingredients, it will be beautiful, due to a combination of colors - red, white, green. However, it is more delicious after all the salad, laid out in layers. It is better not to add salt, the combination in the layers of fresh and salty just gives this salad a special flavor. Instead of ham, you can use smoked meat, boiled shrimp, toasted thin slices of chicken fillet. Instead of olive oil, sesame or walnut (hazelnut, walnut) is a good choice.

It must be remembered that it is important for us not to over-taste the unpleasant taste characteristic of Adyghe cheese, but only to supplement it with too strong tastes and aromas of other ingredients. We hope that the recipe for Adyghe cheese will be useful to you, as well as the above variants of dishes from it. Bon Appetit!