How To Make Cheese And Basic Bechamel Sauce At Home
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Difficulty level: Medium
Total time to make: 30 minutes
No of serving: 4
Ingredient for home made cheese:
Fresh Whole Milk 4cups/939g
Heavy Cream 1/2cups 120g
Table Salt 1/2tsp/5g
Lemon Juice 1 & 1/2 tbsp/20g
Method to steps for home made cheese:
- Combine fresh whole milk, heavy cream and table salt to a large pot. Bring it to a simmering point. Stir constantly.
- Add lemon juice when small bubbles form on top of the simmering water. Stir constantly.
- After lemon juice is added, stir and cook for another 3 minutes.
- Strain cheese curd over a strainer/ cheesecloth. To achieve a dryer cheese, use weight to extract more water out of the cheese.
Ingredient for bechamel sauce:
Butter 1tbsp/20g
White Onion 2tbsp/26g
Plain Flour 1tbsp/10g
Cold Milk 1 &1/4 cups/290g
Nutmeg a small pinch
Bay leaf 1no
Salt 1/4tsp/1.5g
Other seasoning that goes well with bechamel sauce:
Thyme
Garlic
Cayenne
Method to steps for bechamel sauce:
- Sweat white onion in butter. Do not need to brown the onions.
- Add plain flour and sauté for 1 minute. It should smell like cooked pastry.
- Slowly add in cold milk while stirring constantly. This is to prevent flour lumps from forming.
- Add nutmeg, bay leaf and salt. Simmer for 5 minutes. Stir constantly.
- Strain bechamel sauce.
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