Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, vegetarian venezuelan cuajada cheese. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegetarian venezuelan cuajada cheese using 5 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegetarian Venezuelan Cuajada Cheese:
- Get 1 Gallon Pausterized Milk
- Take 1/4 teaspoon calcium chloride
- Prepare 1 packet Mesophilic Starter Culture
- Make ready 1/8 teaspoon vegetable rennet
- Get 8 grams salt
Steps to make Vegetarian Venezuelan Cuajada Cheese:
- Heat the milk until it reaches 36° C or 97° F
- Mix the calcium chloride with a bit of water (1/4 or 1/8 cup of water) and add to the milk
- Add the starter culture to the milk
- Stir for 2 minutes
- Let it sit for 45 minutes (keep the temperature with slow heat for ~2 minutes every ~15 minutes)
- Mix the rennet with a bit of water (1/4 or 1/8 cup of water) and add to the milk
- Use a knife to cut the curd into squares of 1/2 inches
- Slowly stir for 15 minutes. The curds will clump together. Cut them back into squares of 1/2 inches while stirring. Keep the temperature of the whey at 36° C or 97° F the whole time.
- Remove the pot from the stove and use a slotted spoon to transfer the curd to a colander lined with a cheesecloth (the thinner the better)
- Let the curd drain the excess of whey for 30m
- Transfer the curd to a bowl and knead together with the salt
- Now transfer the curd back to a cheescloth and into a mold / press
- Press with 4-8 pounds of weight for 1 hour
- Extract the cheese from the mold and refrigerate
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