Sausage cheese - a taste familiar from childhood

In recent years, sausage cheese has become popular with Russians again. It belongs to inexpensive products and has a pleasant aroma of haze. Many of his taste is familiar from childhood, when it was the only common delicacy. Now there are many kinds of sausage cheese, differing by the presence of additives. This cheeses are for an amateur. But most of all like the traditional taste of sausage cheese.

Before you get on the store counter, the melted sausage cheese goes through a complicated cooking process. It has been greatly improved recently and involves a large number of artificial additives, as well as a high melting point. Therefore sausage cheese does not belong to useful food.

To make it, take different cheeses of hard varieties. They are ground and mixed with cottage cheese and butter. Often, these are substandard or overdue products. For better mixing of all components, the mixture is left to ripen. So that in time the mass does not solidify, salt-melting agents are added to it. Most often it is sodium citrate and phosphates. Then the ripe cheese is heated with continuous stirring. Spices and other additives are introduced into the mass.

The melted mixture is placed in a package of polymer film or cellophane using a special device. It is divided into parts and gets small loaves of cheese. They are cooled and smoked. For smoking are used sawdust of non-millet varieties of trees. Most often it is birch, alder, ash or oak. But some varieties are not subjected to natural smoking, but add a special preservative with the aroma of smoke.

Sausage cheese is a high-calorie product with a high salt content. Therefore, it is not recommended to use it for people with diseases of the stomach, kidneys and blood vessels. Phosphates contained in it, can cause allergic reactions, and acids used for conservation, are harmful in the exacerbation of gastritis and ulcers.

In addition, sausage cheese is often made from substandard and spoiled foods, and butter replaces cheap vegetable fats.

But there is still a benefit in sausage cheese. It is a source of nutritious fats and proteins with an indispensable amino acid composition. This cheese is absorbed by the body completely and contains not only phosphorus and calcium, but also vitamins A, E and D. True, people with excess weight are not recommended to eat sausage cheese. The calories contained in it contribute to obesity.

When buying sausage cheese you need to be able to choose it correctly. A good product has a smooth glossy surface and a brown color. Its consistency must be dense and smooth at the cut, a pleasant aroma of haze is required. Such cheese can be consumed directly in food or added to different dishes.

For example, you can make a roll of lavash. This delicious high-calorie dish is prepared very easily. You need to make a filling, chopping red fish, sausage cheese and boiled eggs. Then add greens, cucumbers and bell peppers or corn. Mix everything with mayonnaise and put it on lavash. Tightly roll into a roll, wrap in a film and put it for two hours in a cold place.