Ricotta

Ricotta was one of the things I was super keen to make when I first got my TM5.

I used a recipe from In The Mix 2 by Dani Valent. My cousin let me borrow her book to look through but I ended up ordering my own. It's a beautiful book with loads of awesome recipes!

1.5kg milk

30g white wine vinegar

Warm the milk 10 mins at 80 degrees on speed 2.

Add the vinegar then mix for 1 min at 90 degrees on speed 1

Drain the cheese in the simmering basket lined with clean chux cloth. The recipe says to leave it for 10 minutes but I left mine for about half an hour. I gave it a bit of a squeeze and then put the ricotta in a bowl ready to make ricotta gnocci...

curds separating from the whey

draining the whey

   ricotta!