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.
Cutlets on the Christmas table are present in almost every home. I want to share my version with you. A few years ago I found it on the Internet, I still use it. The uncomplicated and unusual taste of these cutlets will surprise and delight you and your guests.
Delicious stuffed chicken legs, delicious filling, and all this is packed in puff pastry. On the festive table, the snack pie will look presentable and original, while the cooking technology is quite simple, and the taste is excellent.
For me, New Year’s holidays are associated not only with the smell of tangerines, but also with the aromas of spices and almonds. These tubes are from a series of New Year’s tea parties. They are prepared from a very delicate dough on sour cream.
Dear friends, I want to bring to your attention a very quick and delicious recipe for baked cauliflower in a creamy sauce, which I called “cream fresh”. This is a very simple, light dish, but also very tasty. It is ideal as a side dish for meat.
Hashbrown is a classic American dish, which is a potato tortilla. In a modern kitchen with its experiments, you can find potato pancakes produced with the addition of meat. That is exactly what I am suggesting to your court – the wrong thing. They don’t look like cutlets, more like pancakes with meat. Potato pancakes are ideal for lunch or dinner in combination with some juicy salad.
No meal is complete without snacks. I offer an original snack of raw mushrooms with red caviar. It is prepared quickly, and if guests suddenly arrive unexpectedly, then it will take only a few minutes to prepare it. It is also a great option for a banquet.
The last cake that I repeated many times was “Milk Girl” and its variations. I think it’s time to change the favorite. Over here! This is the option that has now taken the palm in my piggy bank of the “Best”! Over time, the pie opens up more and more. I managed to save a piece ahead of time in three days (I was waiting for my son for a tasting) and I can say that after a while the cake became simply magnificent! When I baked, it seemed to me that I got a very small one (16 cm in diameter), and when I tried it, I realized that it turns out very satisfying. A small piece is enough to enjoy it and have fun. One corrective treatment for me, and next time I will reduce the amount of sugar. It seemed very sweet, or the cranberries were so sweet!
Dear cooks, I want to introduce you to a very simple, but very tasty Ukrainian dish, one of the distinctive features of Hutsul cuisine. Quote from Wikipedia – “Banosh is a traditional Ukrainian Hutsul dish, a steep porridge made of corn flour, cooked with cream or sour cream. Traditionally, it is prepared exclusively by men on an open fire.” Everyone who wants to try this delicious dish, come visit, I will be glad!!!