*Almost SYN-FREE* home-made soft cheese - in any flavour you like!

This has reminded me must make more it was yummy last time :)
 
Made some of this last night so cant wait to try it when I get home!!!! Smells delish and super simple :D has anyone found out if its 'food abuse'? I dont think it would be as I can eat way more yoghurt than I can cheese lol
Just have 2 Q's: How long does it keep for? if its not long may need to reduce the recipe....and can you use it in cooking? Like doing some pasta and using it to make a creamy sauce? Thanks
 
Thank you! Glad that's finally been confirmed. I definitely couldn't eat as much of this as I could the yogurt on it's own so I suspected as much.
Liz
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Read a comment that it's more a cracker cheese. You take all the water out to make the cheese so adding it to pasta will just add the water back and it'll be yoghurt again.
 
Ok dont think I will be trying that!!! Lol tried mine last night and it was yummmy!!!!! Put a bit too much garlic in so would reduce that next time but add a little more salt.....I love garlic though so it wont be going to waste :D
 
ermintrude said:
I can't believe I've never come across this before! It's absolutely fab and so low in syns its insane! :eek:

This whole pat of soft cheese is only 1.5 syns and tastes fab!

Its a middle eastern cheese made from strained yoghurt. It's fab! And so easy! You just mix some flavours and salt into your yoghurt and put it in the fridge in a lined sieve overnight - next morning you have cheese! And you can put whatever flavourings, spices, herbs etc you want in it. It's like a soft cheese such as Philadelphia but creamy and crumbly... kind of a cross between a soft cheese spread and a dry-er goat's cheese or Feta or something. Kinda like Boursin! :drool:

The original recipe asked for full fat yoghurt so I wasnt sure low fat would be any good but gave it a go anyway with Total 2%. Its so easy!

Ingredients:
- Low-fat Greek yoghurt (I used 500g Total 2%)
- Salt
- Spices/flavourings of your choice
- A muslin cloth, a bowl, a sieve/colander, a small plate and a full jar/tin to weigh it all down

Directions:
- Mix 1/2 tsp of salt per 500g yoghurt and whatever flavourings you fancy
(I used 500g Total 2% (1.5 syns), with 1 tsp freshly ground cumin seeds, 2 tsp dried chillies and a bit of freshly ground pepper. I'd use more spices next time but this is the first time I've done it).

- Get a muslin cloth, rinse, squeeze dry and line a sieve or colander with it. Place the sieve in a bowl to collect the whey. Then spoon your yoghurt mix in and fold over the top of the muslin:

- Now get a plate or bowl small enough to press down within the sieve, lay it on top and put a full jar or tin of something on top. (It doesnt have to be all that heavy, 400g is plenty).

- Pop it in the fridge for at least 12h, preferably overnight or even longer, depending how firm you want your cheese:

- (You can occasionally go and give it a squeeze to make sure whey is coming out. I only did this once and tbh mine is so firm & dry I dont think it needed it!)

- And voila! Just take it out of the cloth and you have soft cheese!

I'm having some of it on a warm lentil & rice salad with slow roast spicy tomatoes tonight, but you could use it on crispbread, with pasta, all sorts I imagine! You could mash it up and add garlic, herbs, lemon zest... the possibilities are endless!

Some of the flavours suggested in the book I've got include:
coriander or cumin seeds, dried chilli, chopped herbs, lemon zest, vanilla seeds, sugar, dried apricots (not all together! :D ) and there are loads more versions of it on the web if you google for labne recipes!

Ill definitely be trying this again with other flavourings! Next time garlic, a little lemon, and lashings of black pepper I think! :drool:

Yumtastic and only 1.5 syns for the whole lot with Total 2%. I dont know what it'd be like with fat free Total? Definitely worth finding out tho! :)
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I can't quite explain how excited I am about this! =D x (would fat free yogurt work at all?) x
 
It does work stirred through pasta and also stirred in a tomato sauce to make it creamy :)
I sometimes half strain it and use it as a dip yum!
 
enjay said:
It does work stirred through pasta and also stirred in a tomato sauce to make it creamy :)
I sometimes half strain it and use it as a dip yum!
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Oh thank you, will give this a go this weekend then....loving the dip idea, what do you use to dip with?
 
ermintrude said:
All gone now, yummo! :) Just made another batch with garlic, pepper and a touch of lemon, we'll see what its like tomorrow! :)
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Ermintrude, have just found this thread. I love cream cheese, def gonna try it. Well done
 
I made this yesterday with Aldi Brooklea low fat Greek yogurt which is 5.0 syns but at 79p a 500g pot, I thought it worth a try instead of Total at 2.39.

I used a half tsp salt, just over half tsp garlic granules and nearly 2 tsp of fines herbes. I left it overnight and this morning - WOW - absolutely gorgeous and there was so much of it that I would probably only use half a syn at a time so quite happy with that.

Amazing recipe, so thanks OP. I am going to use it tonight inside some chicken breasts.
 
I can't wait try this :)

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Well my fat free yogurt has had chilli flakes stirred in and is now sitting in the fridge with a tin on it :fingerscrossed::fingerscrossed::fingerscrossed: Has anyone tried using this 'cheese' for pasta sauces at all? x
 
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