Make homemade citrus cheese by simply using an orange in boiling milk. Quick and tasty, here’s the recipe.

Few people make cheese at home, often out of fear that it will take too long or be complicated. With the recipe we will see today, however, in a few hours and with a few euros you will be able to enjoy a fresh and natural citrus cheese . To prepare it, we only need oranges, lemons and milk.

Why make homemade cheese with an orange in boiling milk

Making cheese at home is useful for several reasons. First of all, it allows you to have a fresh and high quality product, since you can personally control each stage of production, from the choice of milk to maturation. This results in a healthier and more natural product than industrially produced cheeses.

In addition, you can customize the cheese to your taste by adding ingredients like aromatic herbs or spices. Making cheese at home is a fun and educational activity , even for the little ones. And with the recipe that we will explain in the next paragraph, it will also be a treat for the palate .

How to Make Citrus Cheese

To make our tasty citrus cheese we will need: 2 liters of milk, two lemons, an orange and 1 teaspoon of salt. Let’s start by pouring two liters of milk into a saucepan and bringing it to a boil.

While the milk is heating, let’s take two lemons. Remove the peels and set them aside, then squeeze the lemons into a juicer. At this point, pour the lemon juice into a bowl, straining it through a sieve. Let’s move on to the orange: remove the peel and set it aside , remove the zest from the segments and cut them into small pieces.

Now let’s go back to the milk and add a teaspoon of salt. Then add the lemon juice and chopped orange. Leave on for 5 minutes, and at the end we will get curdled milk. At this point, we can remove the pan from the heat and transfer the curd to a mold.

As a mold, you might consider using a small strainer covered with a tea towel. In this way, we can pour the cheese on the tea towel inside the colander and add a bowl underneath so that the whey that will be produced by the cheese can be filtered and drained inside the bowl . After that, we cover the cheese with the cloth and add a weight, for example a jar.

We leave the cheese under load for at least an hour and then we can transfer it to the fridge for 2 hours. In the end, we will get a tasty citrus cheese that will also serve as a dessert with ricotta and orange .

Prepare a citrus herbal tea with the peels

This recipe does not generate any waste. For this, you can also use the orange and lemon peels that you have previously reserved. We will use them to prepare a citrus-scented herbal tea. To do this, we cut the citrus peels we have reserved into small pieces, place them in a kettle and add boiling water. Then, let it infuse for a few minutes. This will give us a tasty and fragrant herbal tea to drink in moments of relaxation.