Make your own Ricotta

Ingredients

  • 1 lemon, zested (if you're making lemon ricotta)
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 8 cups milk

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Open up cheese cloth and line colander with a double layer of the cloth, covering all the sides of the colander
  2. Set over a deep bowl for draining
  3. Pour milk into a heavy bottom sauce pan and set on medium to low heat
  4. Let it heat slowly till it's about to boil
  5. Add a 1/4 cup of lemon juice and almost immediately you will see curd form
  6. Keep it on the heat and let the curd fully separate from the whey. The liquid should be clearish this won't take long just a minute or so
  7. Take it off the heat
  8. Using a slotted spoon, skim the curd out into the cheese cloth
  9. Leave for 10 min to drain
  10. Then gather ends of cheese cloth and tie it ti the sink handle to drain for another 10 minutes
  11. Scoop out fresh ricotta into a storage container.
  12. Use immediately or refrigerate for a couple of days.
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