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.
Once in France… although, why “once”? Being constantly at sea in France, I order this dish whenever possible. Just imagine a cozy outdoor cafe on the waterfront of La Grande Motte resort, a holiday around, the sound of the wind and the voices of happy vacationers, the smells of fish and seafood mixed with the salty smell of the sea and the freshness of the wind. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to go there this year, but why not invite the South of France to my home?
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This soup is a godsend for lovers of seafood soups. Cooking is very simple and fast. It can also be dietary. It has a delicate taste with notes of mussels.
An extraordinary salad! Bright, original, fresh, juicy, light, but satisfying, very interesting. If you like seafood, then it will certainly be to your taste. Come in, enjoy your meal.
An easy-to-prepare salad. They say that even those who are indifferent to mussels or feel pity for them have an unreasonable dislike. Try to cook mussels and discover a new taste.
Today I want to treat you to sandwiches on rye bread with herring. Cottage cheese and vegetables will be a great addition! Vegetables will give juiciness, herring – piquancy, and cottage cheese will complete the harmony of taste!
