By combining milk with lemon juice you will get something that you may not expect. Come and see what happens when you cook these two ingredients together, you will be surprised.

Maybe you didn’t know it but by combining milk with lemon in just a few steps you will get ricotta  . There are those who use animal rennet or those who use lemon to make simple homemade ricotta. The recipe is really simple and the steps are not that long, so you can try it too.

Through this preparation that we will see below we will obtain two products with only 3 liters of milk.  In addition to ricotta, you will also get primosale precisely because ricotta, as the term itself suggests, is cooked twice  and is therefore obtained after the preparation of a cheese.

Ricotta is not considered a real cheese, but it is still part of the dairy family and is considered one of the noblest. Its protein quality is higher than that of cheese while its lipid content is lower. So let’s now see how to make ricotta in detail.

Recipe to make homemade ricotta

What you will need is good fresh milk, preferably from a nearby farm or a trusted seller  . Therefore, for this type of preparation it is better to use milk that is not from the supermarket, but if you can’t get it, it will also be fine.

Therefore, there are only two ingredients:  3 liters of milk and the juice of two lemons  . Below we detail  all the steps to follow to obtain your homemade ricotta  :

• Boil 1.5 L of fresh milk in a steel saucepan with salt to obtain the first salt.
• As soon as the milk starts to boil, add the juice of 1 lemon and beat.
• After a few minutes the serum will begin to separate and that will be the time to remove it from the heat and let it rest for 5 minutes.
• Then take a strainer with cheesecloth or a cotton cloth and filter the whey first and then the largest part. This way you will get the first sale. The advice is to shape it by also pressing to remove the last residue of serum.
• Once you have obtained the primosale, you can proceed with the ricotta by heating the whey with another 1.5 L of milk and the juice of 1 lemon.
• Stir until it boils and then let it sit for a further minute before leaving it off the heat for another 5 minutes to rest.
• Filter most of the whey and then form the ricotta in the specific mold, fuscella.

This  way you will have obtained your homemade ricotta with a few simple steps and if you wonder if the ricotta will taste like lemon in the end, the answer is no  . To preserve it you can place it in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. You can eat it naturally or make some sweet or savory recipes.