Brynza appeared in the Arab East about eight thousand years ago. Its opener is considered to consider the Arabian merchant channel. Immersating the goods on the caravan of camels, he went to the far path through the Arabian desert, taking with me to the hardest road of the cakes from the dough, clay jugs with fresh water and a burst of sheep stomach, which poured cream, fresh milk and added sour cream for fatty.
Once he found a dense cheese head in a burgundy with a characteristic sour-colored smell, which swam in a muddy serum. The cheese really liked the taste of the channel - this was the first acquaintance of a man with cheese.
National Georgian cuisine is known far beyond the Caucasian Mountains. Georgian meat dishes, soups on meat broth without vegetables, solid milk cheeses, a variety of sauces of local herbs and natural products leave an indelible impression in memory. The tourist who visited Imereti will certainly celebrate historical sights, Caucasian hospitality, natural grape wines and real izyretic cheese or cheese.
In the "House of Cheese" in Tbilisi, you can see the dishes that were used for the production and storage of solid cheese more than eight thousand years ago. Historical finds associated with the production and storage of this milk product in other countries are half younger: they are not more than four thousand years.
Therefore, Georgia Culinary Self consider the homeland cheese. In total, about 14 varieties of such a product are produced in Georgia.
Brynza is prepared from fresh sheep or cow milk, according to the consistency, it is a bit more tight of ordinary cottage cheese and has a salty taste. Such a product from sheep milk has a characteristic smell and specific taste. Brynza is considered real if its nutritional value is significantly higher than cow. Cheese head is stored in brine containing salt and sugar. With its manufacture, a beene enzyme, pepsin, dry source for brine cheese, is used. Imeretic cheese - a tested food product. He can eat adults and children.
Energy value of Imeretin cheese and caloric content by 100 grams:
Chest from Imereti is a high-quality fermented dairy product, which, by smell and taste, is very similar to Suluguni. For its manufacture, a whole cow's milk is used, Zakvask, a rennet enzyme or renin of plant origin, water, salt, cumin, paprika, tomatoes, calcium chloride. Georgia produces 80% of the total number of cheese of Imeretin and Suluguni.
For the manufacture of Imeretin cheese, you need to take:
Popular Bryneza Cooking Recipe:
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Sometimes, when the guests are already going on the train and you need to cook "Caesar Salad with Omilli and Natural Cheese" for a few hours, "can help out the recipe for" five-hour cooking ".
Boil 1 liter of homemade milk, and when it boils, pour the teaspoon of apple vinegar, half a cup of fresh kefira, 50 grams of apple juice, add sliced \u200b\u200broutine sliced \u200b\u200bpieces.
Stirring with a shovel or noise, until it is formed and the liquid will not become a light green. Cancel the cheese mass on double gauze or linen fabric.
In a liter of cold water to dissolve two tablespoons of salts and tea food soda. Pour the raw mass with this solution, put on top of the press and leave for 2-3 hours. At the end of time, remove cheese from the water and put in pair milk. After exposure in it for 2-3 hours of cheese is ready. Store it better on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, immersed in milk or serum.
A liter of greasy milk pour into a saucepan, add three tablespoons of 20% sour cream, two tablespoons of lemon juice and heat up to 65-70 ° C. The resulting cheese clutch squeeze through double gauze and put under the oppression of 45-60 minutes.
After the serum is removed, the cheese cut into cubes and put into the solution: a teaspoon of salt and the same spoon of sugar per liter of water. Put on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for storage.
This recipe for cooking solid cheese is available to everyone. It is very simple and does not require special skills or knowledge. The cheese on this recipe can "comprehend" even the one who is familiar with cooking only on the book or on the finished dishes at the dinner table.
To get a cheese for this recipe you need:
Cheese can be in a thick saucepan. Pour milk into it, add salt, put on fire and heated to boil. Chicken eggs are whipped by shimmer before the formation of a homogeneous mass, we pour kefir, suck fatty sour cream.
As soon as the milk begins to boil - add a prepared mass to it, well interfere with the noise, not allowing the formation of lumps. As soon as the product is divided into cheese flakes and serum, the saucepan is immediately removed from the fire.
Greens are finely cut and fall asleep in the cooled raw mass.
In most cases, cheese recipes can be replaced with cheaper cheese - feta. This Greek grade is preparing from sheep and goat milk. It matures in seawater, persisted in olive oil. According to the external signs of Feta very similar to fresh pressed cottage cheese. It can be smeared on bread instead of melted cheese. On a cut, it is smooth, without a hole characteristic for cheese, the taste and smell of spicy, contains a lot of lactic acid.
According to gourmets, Feta can be replaced by cheese in Salad Caesar and other culinary recipes, however, according to experts, in its chemical composition, manufacturing technologies and tasteings are completely different cheeses. The possibility of replacement depends on a particular dish and from human taste preferences.
About traditional Georgian cheese told in the next video.
Suluguni is a very popular and loved in many Eastern European countries Georgian loose fresh cheese. Due to its popularity, there are many "domesticated" and highly simplified recipes for its preparation using eggs and cottage cheese, according to which something is obtained, very remotely resembling real cheese from the region SAMEGROL. Do not everyone know that Suluguni is an exhaust cheese, according to the method of cooking similar to Italian Mozarella. Many are preparing it in 2 stages: first it is done (or even bought) Imeretic cheese, and then Suluguni himself is already made from it. This cheese can be done both from cow and from goat pasteurized milk. We will give a classic Suluguni cheese recipe that can be quite difficult for beginners, but the result is worth the effort \u003d)
Ingredients
4 liters
not ultrapasterized
1/8 tsp
1/4 Ch.L.
dissolve in 50ml Temperature water 30-35ºС.
or the rennet enzyme in another form, in the dosage, according to the instructions on the package
4 ml.
dissolve in 50ml room water temperature
or guide the dosage indicated by the manufacturer of the drug on the package
maximum application dose - 2 g of calcium dry chloride by 10 l of milk
500 g.
not iodized
2 liters
1/2 Article.
1/2 h. L.
After cooking you will get: 1 cheese weighing 350 g
Equipment
6 liters
enameled or stainless steel, for heating milk
for water bath , the size of the main pan placed in it
for cutting a bunch
wooden or plastic
for 400
Sterilize all the equipment before the start of cooking cheese. You can rinse it and quivel
Imeretic cheese from whole milk and rennet enzyme is prepared at the enterprises. In households, the product is produced without any drugs that accelerate the coagulation of raw materials. That is, in fact, waiting for the fresh milk itself does not dwell.
If you plan to cook cheese yourself, then the last way you will not fit, because the ingredients will have to buy, and therefore, they must be pasteurization. This milk without enzymes will not come.
For cooking 300 grams of product, it will be necessary:
4 liters of milk;
A quarter of a teaspoon of pepsin.
The procedure is as follows:
Raw materials should be heated to +38 ° C;
Then the enzyme is added to it, mixed with 50 milliliters of warm water;
The pot is wrapped with a warm blanket and leave for an hour;
The formed clot right in the tanks are cut into pieces (2 cm cubes 2);
will wait 15 minutes to stand out serum;
The raw mass is shifted in a lattoon (colander, or a special form);
tamper.
After 12 hours, when the stuff strokes, the head sprinkles with salt and leave in the refrigerator for a couple of days. The cheese is then placed in a brine consisting of 2 liters of water, half a kilogram of salt and a spoon of vinegar.
It is impossible to say that the prepared recipe is the only one. In fact, in each village of Georgia there are its unique variations and additives. Often cheese are complemented by spices, spices and herbs.
Fresh cheese is perfectly combined with fruits and vegetables. His delicate taste is well the red wine of the Kindzazrauli or Saperava type. It is suitable for sandwiches, but it is better to use not familiar bread, but fresh pita. For this, the cheese is crumble and mixed with crispy greens, and then wrapped in a cake.
The taste of the product is emphasized:
Garlic (and including young);
radish;
Sweet summer tomatoes.
It will take a worthy place and on a cheese plate, garnished with white grapes, honey, walnuts with roasted nuts. The options of use have a wound, but it is the use of cheese in traditional baking that glorified him in the world.
Recipes of this cake today are known a lot, but Georgian authorities in 2010 patented only one of them. It is about him that we will tell you more.
In addition to cheese, the dough is important in Khachapuri. In the original it is made without yeast, applying a specific national milk product, called Maconi.
These ingredients will be required:
900 grams of wheat flour of the highest grade;
three eggs;
0.5 liters of Marty.
Important moment - flour should be mixed gradually. The lack of it will make the dough of liquid, and the excess is too discontinuable.
For the inhabitants of our country, the main difficulty is Martzoni. How can I replace it? Without special losses of taste and quality, low fat kefir use.
It is also necessary to remember that the original Georgian Khachapuri is brought to readiness in a pan, and not in the oven.
The softness and tenderness of the test must fit and fill. For her, only Imeretic cheese is taken. At the same time, too affordable is not suitable - it is overly dense. A good product is easy to be hand. No other tools like terk, meat grinders, etc. in Georgia do not apply.
Also in the filling does not put anything superfluous (except that the egg, if it goes with a liquid), so that the real khachapuri consists only of a roasted crust and crushed melted cheese.
To prepare a cake made by the above-described recipe dough, cut on 8 identical pieces. Everyone should roll in a round pellet. It is put on her stuffing, so that it does not take to the edge of 2 centimeters. The second circle is covered. On the perimeter of Khachapuri neatly replete.
Finished products remains to be fried on a dry, strongly hot pan on both sides, covered tightly with a lid. Ready pie is smeared with a piece of butter.
This is another interesting Georgian dish, where the main serves the Imeretic cheese. Represents it with routines stuffed with greens. No less tasty Gebzhalia is obtained if you use Suluguni.
The only thing that should be known is to be used to use Kelle, if there is still no day since its manufacture. In such a product, it does not get acidity, and therefore he will not be able to melt.
So, for Gebzhalya will need:
Milk - 1 liter;
Olive oil - a pair of tablespoons;
Middle bunch of fresh mint;
Imeretic cheese - 0.7 kg;
Salt - at its discretion.
At the very beginning, even before cooking rolls, you need to cook the place to lad out the molten cheese. The surface of the table, wiped and covered with a food film. The mass is frozen very quickly, therefore it will have to be lightning.
From the tools, prepare a wood shovel and noise.
Voaging a stuffing for a roll. For her:
Out of mint leaves with stalks;
silent them in a mortar or blender;
Mixed with butter.
The last ingredient in this recipe is not at all necessary - the greens are permissible just finely chopped with a knife.
Now the cheese turn has come. It should be chopped on 25 millimeters into cubes or so - so it is raised as soon as possible.
When the cheese softens, it is laid out on the prepared surface and roll up, giving a bunch form of a rectangle. The thickness of the layer can be made anything, but optimal - 1.5 cm.
Acquisition is allowed immediately after cooling. It is recommended to serve it with tkemali or other sour sweet sauce. Very tasty Gebzhalia with walnut crumb.
On 1 liter of brine:
Milk (pair or heated to 37.5-38 ° C) strain through a sterile gauze into clay or enamelled dishes, add pepsin into it, once-interfere with a wooden spoon clockwise, put the heat source near the heat source. Turn the dishes from time to time, so that the milk to dwell evenly.
25-30 minutes later, when the milk is squanding, collect the cheese mass into one com and separate from the serum.
Put the gentle raw mass in the form - it is convenient to use a cylindrical colander with a flat bottom, in which cheese will acquire the right look. Put the colander on the pallet - to flow fluid. Hands crumple the surface of the cheese and sprinkle it with a large salt.
After 2-3 days, the finished young cheese can be used to prepare Suluguni. If you need to bring it to ripening, prepare "Tsathi", that is, a special brine for storing cheese. Mix water, salt and sugar, pour into enameled or glassware, put the cheese and cover the lid. It is advisable to put in a warm place - so that cheese formed holes for 3-4 days.
Only on their own experience, you can learn all the intricacies of the cheese. According to popular belief, pepsin in milk should be stirred an exceptionally unsubsal in fan of figs! Serum after cheese do not pour in any way - put it on a slow heat for 2-3 hours, then strain through the fine colander: so it is done to be made (in Georgian - "long or many times boiled"
Imeretic cheese is one of the most popular Georgia in the Republic. The percentage of its production in the country in the total mass of other species is a significant digit. Of 10 kilograms of cheese, which are produced by Georgian small and large enterprises, 8 kg are Imeretic cheese. This is how it loves and is often used in the national cuisine.
In Georgian language, it is called "having a Quel" or "Chkinti Quel" ("QWWER" - in translation means "cheese"). It is the basis for Imereti Khachapuri (Khach - Cottage cheese, Puri is a Georgian bread). Imeretic cheese really looks like cottage cheese: gentle, little salty, very fresh.
On its basis, many Georgian dishes are preparing. For example, it is the basis for Suluguni. Imeretic cheese is withstanding 2-3 days so that it scores the necessary acidity. And then cut and lowered hot water so that it turns into a cheese "dough". It can be stretched and folded to form the thinnest layers formed - this is how Suluguni appears.
Imeretic cheese has several distinctive features. They allow you to accurately determine that in front of us: the real has a kvel or fake. Of course, in Georgia know in this sense. And in other countries you need to have accurate data to not be mistaken:
These are cheese rolls with spice filling. Basically, mint is used as seasonings. Usually this dish is recommended to cook from Suluguni, but in fact it is perfectly coming out of the Imereti cheese. Rather, it is even necessary to recommend it to do from you in the Quel. Why?
First, Imeretic cheese is significantly cheaper, because it is the initial raw material for Suluguni. Secondly, it also melts well at high temperatures, because this is how Suluguni is prepared, pieces in hot water pieces of a weathered Imereti.
Only cheese will not suit, which was cooked less than a day ago. In order for it to start melting, it should typing the necessary acidity. This happens in 1-3 days, depending on the room temperature.
Before melting cheese, you need to prepare all the necessary devices and the surface on which the cheese reservoir will be folded. Because then it will do late. Roll out the reservoir and roll the roll is very fast until the cheese mass has cooled. It is recommended to use a special silicone rug as a surface. It still takes a wooden spoon (blade) and noise.
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