Sour cream recipe with step by step pictures. Delicious creamy sour cream recipe made by mixing cream with lemon juice.
Sour Cream Recipe
Sour cream is a quite famous dipping sauce or spread for many dishes. Specially cheesecakes. I was thinking about making an eggless cheesecake recipe, i stumbled upon a great recipe, one of the key ingredient is sour cream. In my place i couldn't get it, so i decided to make my very own sour cream.
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About this Recipe
Sour cream, also known as soured cream, is a dairy product made by fermenting regular cream with lactic acid bacteria. The bacterial culture, which is added either intentionally or accidentally, soured and thickened the cream. Souring refers to the process of producing lactic acid through bacterial fermentation. Crème fraîche is a type of sour cream that has a high fat content and a milder sour flavour.
Sour cream was traditionally made by fermenting cream skimmed from the top of milk at a low temperature. It can also be made by soaking pasteurised cream in an acid-producing bacterial culture. The bacteria that grew during fermentation thickened and acidified the cream, which was a natural way of preserving it.
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And believe it or not, this is hardly mixing up cream and lemon juice together and leaving out for a whole day or 24 hours. So easy, the time does the magic. it ferments and make the cream go sour. You can use this any recipe which calls for sour cream.
Is sour cream and yogurt the same?
Sour cream is made from fermented dairy cream, whereas yoghurt is made from fermented milk. The bacteria used to make sour cream differ from those used to make yoghurt.
Ingredients for Homemade Sour Cream Recipe :
Fresh Cream :
Fresh cream is a dairy product derived from milk. It is created by processing and sterilising milk at high temperatures before packaging it. Because it contains only 18-25% milk fat, it cannot be used as whipping cream (which contains almost 35 percent milk fat).
Lemon Juice :
Lemon juice makes the cream acidic, causing the casein proteins to clump.
How to make sour cream
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. You have to put this out in a covered bowl for 24 hours. Then put it in fridge.
- This will stay good for 5 to 6 days.
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How to Make Sour Cream | Homemade Sour Cream Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Cream / Whipping Cream or Fresh Cream
- 1 tsp Lemon Juice
- ¼ tsp Salt
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. You have to put this out in a covered bowl for 24hours. Then put it in fridge.
- This will stay good for 5 to 6 days.
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Anonymous
Thabk you for sharing! Super excited that it is so easy. Just tried it - fingers crossed for 24 hours to see how well it worked.
Rexy
Really appreciate your efforts. I grew up in Nagercoil and I am always surprised and stunned by your efforts to make each and every recipe especially with the ingredients you couldn't get there. All the best!!
J
When do we add the salt?
Sravya
Only the thicker part of the cream or shall I use the whole cream?
Aarthi
Yes u can
BJ
USE ALL THE CREAM- JUST MIX ALL INGREDIENTS TOGETHER