Sour cream is not French creme fraiche, which, although similar, remain thick cream. Although fresh cream has a sourness, this is a very subtle difference from fresh cream. Ordinary sour cream is really sour (when compared with cream), but silky and soft to the taste.
How to choose Sour Cream?
Chefs most often choose an average value of 20-25% fat content – this is the optimal balance of low calorie content and suitable consistency, which is suitable for both cold and hot dishes. The secret is that the low-fat mixture collapses under the influence of high temperatures. Therefore, if recipes with sour cream involve heat treatment, it is better to choose a sufficient minimum.
A low-fat mixture is enough for dressing vegetable salads, soups, making quick sauces and gravy potato pancakes. Pasty sour cream is needed for whipping cream for cakes, making desserts, mousses, fruit salads, for baking in the oven, stewing meat, fish, mushrooms and vegetables. Sour cream is also used instead of mayonnaise, pancakes are kneaded on sour cream, and additionally it is used to prepare cold sauces to roast or poultry meat.
How to cook Sour Cream?
In any recipe where you want to bake something under mayonnaise, the latter can be replaced with fatty sour cream with the addition of salt and a drop of wine vinegar. Fat thick sour cream is better suited for whipping with sugar, for creams and dip sauces (for dipping). Liquid sour cream is better suited for stewing, for sauces and gravies.
A very juicy and bright vitamin salad that perfectly harmonizes with sour cream dressing! An indispensable ingredient in the preparation of salads is raisins! I recommend it to everyone without exception! It’s really delicious!
There are a lot of salads with chicken, but the beauty of cooking is that you can experiment and combine different products as much as you want. I offer you another option of a spicy, hearty, rich salad that can be served to guests, and you can easily cook for a family dinner. A very tasty salad, I cook now for all holidays.
I read the recipe for cheese sticks and immediately wanted to cook. It turned out to be a tender, golden-crunchy snack. Sprinkle with cumin and coriander.
The sticks turn out very tasty, crispy. The secret is that they are baked in the oven and turn out very low-fat. I like to cook them for children for breakfast and tea.
Very tasty salad! And fresh, and nutritious, and spicy! In my opinion, everything in it is very harmonious! Cook and you, while we delight with crispy cucumbers from the garden and young garlic! I hope you enjoy the salad!
Juicy salad of onions, boiled eggs and fresh cucumber. Very simple, but how piquant.The cheese in the salad is hidden behind other ingredients, but adds flavor.
A light summer salad, the preparation of which will not take you much time, and the taste will be a pleasure. Quick, simple, refreshing! Very tasty salad. It turns out that radishes go well with cheese.
A simple and unpretentious salad. Delicious, juicy, tender, nutritious. It is prepared from available products in a matter of minutes. However, the table disappears just as quickly.
Julienne, familiar to us, looks very original with baked vegetables. In addition, with vegetables, this dish becomes more useful. If you can’t find round zucchini, take ordinary, oblong ones, cut into five-centimeter cubes, remove the pulp and fill with cylinders for julienne. This dish looks spectacular on the New Year’s table.
