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This tvorog tastes smooth, creamy and incredibly delicious. It is ideal for breakfast, pastry, preparing and refining various dishes. You can make it at home from just two ingredients. You can find a detailed farmers cheese recipe with kefir with the exact quantities and step-by-step instructions below.
What is tvorog?
Tvorog is a Russian farmers cheese made by fermenting milk and then removing the whey. It has an almost neutral taste, so it can be eaten sweet or salty or used in dishes. Tvorog is somewhat similar to German quark, but is grainy and much drier in consistency.
This milk product is also available in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Here it is called tvaroh. In Poland it is known as tvarog.
How to use farmers cheese?
Tvorog can be used in many different ways. It tastes delicious both sweetened and salted. You can also use it to prepare many delicious Slavic dishes.
Homemade farmers cheese is ideal for breakfast and dessert. It tastes delicious with fresh fruits or roasted nuts. You can also enjoy it with sour cream or honey.
But tvorog is also delicious when salted with fresh herbs or vegetables. It’s the perfect snack between meals.
You can also make various pancakes with the farmers cheese, such as
A large selection of popular Russian and Soviet sweet pastries are made with tvorog. These include, for example
- vatrushka,
- farmer’s cheese pryaniki,
- farmer’s cheese piroshki,
- sochniki,
- ponchiki,
- goose feet cookies,
- tvorog korzhiki.
It is also used to make
You can also use the farmers cheese to make
Do not dispose of whey
A large amount of whey is produced when making tvorog. You should not throw it away. It contains lots of vitamins and is very healthy.
You can simply drink the whey pure. You can also use it to make delicious smoothies.
Whey is also ideal for pastries. Use it instead of milk in baking recipes.
You can also use it to make the popular Russian summer soup. Replace kefir and water with whey in my okroshka recipe.
Farmers cheese recipe with lemon juice
I made tvorog with kefir using the recipe that you can find at the end of this post in the recipe box. To do this, the kefir milk mixture must first rest at room temperature for around 24 hours.
Alternatively, you can make the farmers cheese with lemon juice. Just like for the lemon cake, the lemon crinkle cookies or the lemon ice cream, only use freshly squeezed juice for this.
To make tvorog with lemon, take
- 1 l milk and
- 40 ml lemon juice.
The quantities of ingredients will make about 240 g of farmers cheese.
Stir the two ingredients together in a saucepan. The mixture does not need to rest. Heat it slowly for about 40 minutes and stir it briefly about halfway through, just like the kefir milk mixture. Proceed as described in the recipe with kefir below.
This Russian tvorog is
- grainy,
- smooth,
- tender,
- creamy,
- fine,
- very tasty,
- vegetarian,
- healthy,
- made with kefir,
- versatile to use,
- easy to make from two ingredients.
How to make farmers cheese: tips and tricks
- Instead of kefir, you can make tvorog with lemon juice. Read how to do it in the article above.
- You should not dispose of the resulting whey. It is suitable for drinking pure, for making smoothies and for pastries.
- The homemade farmers cheese tastes delicious both sweet and savory. You can eat it with sour cream, fruits and nuts for breakfast or dessert. The tvorog can also be used to prepare many dishes. You can find lots of ideas at the top of this article.
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Farmers cheese (Tvorog)
Ingredients
- 1 l milk
- 350 g kefir
Instructions
- Pour milk into a thick-bottomed saucepan and heat to lukewarm.
- Stir kefir into the lukewarm milk and leave it covered with a towel at room temperature in as warm a place as possible (for example in the kitchen next to the hob) for 24 hours.
- Then heat the kefir milk mixture (it can still look almost fresh) slowly over a low heat for about 40 minutes, stirring it carefully once after about 20 minutes. As it warms up, milk flakes and whey will gradually form.
- Leave the milk mixture to cool.
- Place a sieve on a saucepan and line it with a straining cloth. Pour the milk mixture onto the sieve and allow the whey to drain into the pot.
- Now wrap the tvorog mixture in the straining cloth and pour it out.
- Leave the farmers cheese wrapped in the straining cloth in the sieve in the fridge for a few more hours to drain thoroughly.
- You can pour the whey into glass bottles or screw-top jars and store in the fridge.
Notes
- Instead of kefir, you can make tvorog with lemon juice. Read how to do it in the article above.
- You should not dispose of the resulting whey. It is suitable for drinking pure, for making smoothies and for pastries.
- The homemade farmers cheese tastes delicious both sweet and savory. You can eat it with sour cream, fruits and nuts for breakfast or dessert. The tvorog can also be used to prepare many dishes. You can find lots of ideas at the top of this article.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the tvorog at the top of the article.
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