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.
New Year is a time when you want to please your loved ones with delicious and interesting recipes. I offer you a hearty and inexpensive dish that will decorate your festive table and surprise guests with an intricate presentation. Bags of rice, chicken, mushrooms and prunes look beautiful on a dish, if necessary, they can be prepared for a buffet table. The recipe is convenient because everything can be prepared in advance, the day before the holiday, and at the right time to get out of the refrigerator and bake.
Rice bagels stuffed with cream cheese filling. It’s just a great dish, you haven’t eaten it yet. A full lunch or dinner for the whole family. Wow, how delicious!!! Be sure to prepare and invite guests.
I saw this recipe in the Greek magazine “Deli”, tried it and just fell in love! For the first time this recipe was published by me, because I have been cooking this dish for three years, because it is a very favorite in our family and because everything is very simple and fast, and it looks very impressive and beautiful on the table. Try this!
Have you ever had a meat or fish dish eaten, but the side dish to it remained? For example, fig). I want to share with you the option of how to turn the remaining side dish into a delicious, hearty breakfast) Although, this dish can continue to be successfully served as a side dish, including on the festive table, because it is delicious and beautiful.
And again chicken breasts with rice. Tender, with cream cheese sauce, juicy, they are best combined with rice. The dish turns out to be very light and satisfying, it is prepared very quickly. Children eat with pleasure. A great dish for a family lunch or dinner! Convinced? Try to cook?
We will prepare a lazy casserole – all at once, side dish and chicken, sauce and vegetables in the oven, without stirring and frying. Less than an hour and on the table is a fragrant juicy dish, with a crust and delicious baked sauce!
There are a lot of recipes for baking borscht on the Internet, and there are only a few recipes for cooking borscht using them. Want to offer your own version. Borscht turns out to be very tasty and healthy.
I took the recipe of this wonderful borscht from the book of TV presenter Ruslana Pysanka “Culinary temptations of Kievan Rus”. Borscht is obtained with a pleasant sourness and will be useful after a festive feast.
When posting the recipe for borscht, I thought – I probably need to have the courage to post the next version of this dish on our website! Do not judge strictly – I have weighed all the pros and cons and made a decision! We cook this borscht all summer in the country, right on the fire, very useful and really summer!
