Farm Fresh Herb Mozzarella Cheese You Can Make at Home

Homemade Cheese

Fresh cheese, aged cheese, homemade cheese, any cheese I’m hooked! This cheese is so easy and so fresh you’ll wonder why you didn’t try making it before.

We love to eat our fresh cheese on homemade pizza or use it as a paneer in our Indian food. We even made fresh Burrata which is a fresh mozzarella with a creamy cheese center. It’s amazing! Burrata is delicious on pastas, breads, and pizzas (really I think it’s good with everything).

Homemade cheese is worth making. Especially when you have fresh herbs on hand to put in your cheese and make it amazing.

What You’ll Need

Let’s talk about how easy these ingredients are for this homemade cheese. Whole milk, citric acid, rennet (I use liquid vegetable rennet), water and salt and herbs. That’s six ingredients!

Rennet is pretty easy to find online. There are a few grocery store that carry this product but if you can’t find it where you live then you can find it online. We live in a small town and have to shop online for a lot of the more adventurous products, rennet being one of those products. But, with the ease of online shopping you can get almost anything you need.

You can use any herb that you grow or that you have access to for this recipe. I love fresh basil cheese and one of my favorite herb to use is tarragon. Dill, rosemary, cilantro and lavender can make special cheese flavors to serve for your guests.

Make sure you follow the instructions on your specific rennet product because they may vary from my rennet.

Let’s get to the recipe.

Ta Da! So easy! make this cheese today and share it with us on instagram #sweetolivefarms

Herb Mozzarella Cheese

Leslie Gibson

Fresh Homemade cheese recipe

Print Recipe

Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Italian

Servings 4

Equipment

• large pot
• Microwave

Ingredients

  

• 1 gallon Fresh Whole Milk
• 1 1/2 tsp citric acid
• 1/4 tsp liquid rennet single strength
• 1/4 cup cold water
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp Fresh herb of choice

Instructions

 

• 1. Dissolve Rennet in 1/4 cup cold water set aside

  2. Dissolve Citric acid with 1/2 cup water. Pour room temp milk into tall pot and pour citric acid into milk and mix quickly.

  3. Turn on the heat and slowly heat milk to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. The milk will start to separate into curds and whey. You can heat to 95 degrees if your milk is not separating.

  4. Turn the heat off and slowly mix in the rennet. stir all the way through the milk. Cover and leave undisturbed for 20-30 minutes. Make sure the curd is becoming more solid.

  5. Cut the curds in the pot into squares but do not stir or drain the whey.

  6. Turn the heat back on the pot and heat to 110 degrees. Stir gently.

  7. With a strainer remove the curd form the whey and place them in a microwave safe bowl.

  8. Put the bowl in the microwave for one minute. Remove and drain the whey. Add the salt and fresh herbs and stir.

  9. You will notice that the curds are melting together. place in the microwave and heat in 30 second stretches until the curds are totally melted together. Knead and Stretch the cheese with your hands and continue draining the whey. Mold into a ball until is is smooth and shiny.

Keyword Fresh Mozzarella Cheese, herb cheese