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HOME-MADE CHÈVRE

March 15, 2013 By Manu 5 Comments

Home-made Chèvre

Sawsan from Chef in Disguise was our March 2013 Daring Cooks hostess! Sawsan challenges us to make our own homemade cheeses! She gave us a variety of choices to make, all of them easily accomplished and delicious!
Yessss, you read that right: one of my best blogger friends was this month’s Daring Cooks hostess!  I was so excited when I read her name as I knew she would come up with something awesome!  And boy she did!  She challenged us to make home made cheese!  Now, you guys know how much I LOVE cheese, so this was an amazing challenge for yours truly!  After making home made labneh and salumi (check out my Salame Cotto if you’ve missed it!) last month, I was ready to test my luck at making cheese.  My imagination immediately ran wild as I imagined myself making all kinds of delicious cheeses, but then reality hit… hard.  To make the majority of cheeses you need 1. Raw – unpasteurized or at least unhomogenised milk 2. You need to age it.  Living in Australia automatically excludes me from trying my hand at making some “serious” cheese at home, as it is way too hot here to age cheese at home and it is impossibile to find unpasteurized and unhomogenised milk in the city.  So, I went back to the basics and after some research, I decided to try and make a simple Chèvre.  I must admit I also had a hard time finding a shop that sells rennet, cultures and all the stuff you need to make cheese, but in the end I managed to locate one!  I got some goat milk from the store and made a full batch of cheese.  Well, not really.  The milk did not set at all.  Grrrrrrrr.  Why???  I learnt the hard way that store bought milk down here is homogenised and this process interferes with the setting of the curds.  So, I had to throw away 2 liters of goat milk!  I read online that adding calcium chloride to store bought milk helps the setting… so I went out again and got some calcium chloride and some more goat milk and started all over again.  Well, guess what?  It worked!  Making Chèvre at home is actually pretty easy, once you know your milk.  I will be trying out some more cheeses in the next few months (I do have some more rennet in the fridge!), but I have a feeling it will be very hard to make anything really good with store bought milk!  We’ll see though… I won’t give up so easily!  In the meantime, I will leave you’ll with my latest success: Chèvre.  Enjoy and don’t forget to check out all the other cheeses that my fellow Daring Cooks came up with, here!
Thank you Sawsan for being such a fantastic hostess and a never ending source of inspiration! 🙂

Home-made Chèvre

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Home-made Chèvre

Making Chèvre at home is easier than you think!

Course Cheese
Cuisine French
Author Recipe inspired by Jules Food…

Ingredients

  • 2 lt - 67.6 oz. pasteurized goat milk
  • 1 sachet powdered Mesophilic DVI culture I used 1 sachet Mesophilic MW3 from Mad Millie
  • ½ rennet tablet or a couple of drops of liquid rennet – follow manfacturer’s dosage, crushed in ¼ cup water
  • ½ heaped tsp sea salt or to taste
  • 1 ml - 0.03 oz. calcium chloride if using pasteurized milk
  • NOTE: you can use half the dosage of rennet for a milder tasting and slightly softer cheese.

Instructions

  1. Put the goat milk in a big pot and heat it on a low fire until it reaches 30°C - 86°F, then remove it from the fire, add the calcium chloride and mix well.
  2. Add the culture and mix well for a couple of minutes, to make sure they are evenly distributed. Cover the pot and keep it aside for 45 to 60 minutes.
  3. Now crush the rennet and dissolve it in the water.
  4. Add the dissolved rennet to the milk and stir well for a couple of minutes, to make sure it is evenly distributed.
  5. Cover the pot with a lid and a couple of towels, and put it in the oven without turning it on. Keep it completely undisturbed (do not touch it/shake it/move it!) for 18 hours.
  6. Line a colander with a double layer of cheese cloth and put it on top of a big bowl (so you can collect the whey that will come out of the cheese).
  7. After the 18 hours, your milk should have set and you can scoop out the curds with a slotted spoon and put them to drain in the colander.
  8. Bring the four corners of the cheese cloth together and twist it to squeeze out the whey over the bowl. Do that until it drips less, then tie the top of the cloth just above the cheese with string and hang it on top of the sink.
  9. Let it drain for about 5 hours, then open the cheese cloth, mix the salt with the cheese and put it in a mould (if you have one) and keep it to drain at room temperature for another 16 to 21 hours.
  10. Then unmould it and keep it in the fridge until you are ready to eat it.
  11. Serve it on crusty bread, plain or with chives, or with some berries and a drizzle of honey on the top.

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Comments

  1. Ingrid says

    March 15, 2013 at 10:19 pm

    Oh, your chèvre looks great ! After the fresh cow milk, I found a goat farm to score fresh goat milk from. It’s going to be baby season soon though, so I’ll probably have to wait until after the baby boom for milk. But then I will definitely give chèvre a try. Well done on this challenge.

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  2. amber says

    March 15, 2013 at 11:36 pm

    Hi Manu! I love your site and since I found it I spend hours here. I was also born and sort of grown in Italy. In abbruzzo and like you I try to keep my Italian heritage alive with my cooking. Also, like you I have had a go at making cheese at home. I found a cheese factory when I lived in melbourne that was happy to sell me Milk AND rennet. Maybe that’s an option for you. However I’ve also used junket and lemon and vinegar with great success. I have also aged some cheese in the fridge without wrapping. I think you did a fantastic job and I love that you do so much! There are things that I’ve tried but not been successful with…for example making orecchitte by hand, but it’s fun to try and when it DOES work, it makes you feel so proud of yourself. Keep up the great work and even though I’m much older than you are I hope to master SOME of the things you have. Ciao! 🙂

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  3. Urmila @ The Garlic Press says

    March 16, 2013 at 2:04 am

    Beautiful presentation and photos!

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  4. [email protected] in disguise says

    March 16, 2013 at 5:04 am

    Manu, thank you so much for the kind words. You are always sweet and kind!
    Your cheese looks perfectly smooth and creamy and your pictures are breath taking
    Thank you for taking part in this challenge my friend

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  5. Makey-Cakey says

    March 16, 2013 at 9:02 am

    Dedication to the cheese making cause! Great job – it looks fantastic, and the raspberries are so pretty and reminding me that summer isn’t too far away (well, several months still, and there’s more snow forecast for tomorrow in Scotland, but it will be here eventually!)

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