How To Ditch Store Bought Cream Cheese And Make It At Home

This 3 ingredient cream cheese recipe

​Ingredients

3 cups full cream milk, 1 tsp vanilla essence, 1 pinch salt, 3 tbsp lemon juice and 2 1/2 cups cold fresh cream.

To begin with the simple cream cheese recipe, take a pan and pour full cream milk and allow it to boil, reduce the flame and add lemon juice.

Once the milk starts crumbling, strain it through a muslin cloth.

Run this chena through some cold water, squeeze out the water and allow the chena to turn thick. Place a heavy vessel over it.

Take a blender and add this chena along with 2 ½ cups of fresh cream. Make a creamy mixture.

Adjust the taste of the cream cheese as per your requirements, if you are using it for a dessert, add vanilla essence and sugar, blend it 2 -3 times to get that thick creamy texture.

If you are using it for a savoury dish you can add salt, herbs and spices.

Take it out and keep it in an airtight container. You can store it up in a refrigerator for 3-4 days.