Instant Pot Cheese

The beloved Instant Pot can be used to do just about anything: caramelize onions, boil eggs, steam rice . . . and now, make cheese! Cheesemaking in a multicooker is not only time- and money-saving, but the cooker's accurate and consistent temperatures make it an ideal tool for the craft. Claudia Lucero, author of the best-selling One-Hour Cheese, presents the cheesemaking basics, then covers classics such as paneer, ricotta, goat cheese, and easy cottage cheese before introducing more sophisticated options like burrata and feta, and even dairy-free alternatives. For multicookers with a "Yogurt" function, there are recipes for cultured dairy products such as buttermilk, ghee, and sour cream, too.



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  Home cooks learn how to use an Instant Pot or other multicooker to make cheese, including ricotta, goat cheese, paneer, mozzarella, feta, and more.
Claudia Lucero is the author of Instant Pot Cheese, One-Hour Cheese, and One-Hour Dairy-Free Cheese. She is the entrepreneur behind UrbanCheesecraft.com and DIY Cheese Kits, which she sells through Etsy, specialty food shops, and select Whole Foods stores, and she developed the home cheesemaking kits for Williams-Sonoma's Agrarian product line. Raised with fresh Mexican cheeses, Lucero cooked alongside her mom and grandmother from an early age, where she first learned the value and reward of cooking traditional foods from scratch. She lives in Portland, Oregon. 



  Make cheese in your Instant Pot. Why not? Claudia Lucero customizes her signature cheese recipes for Instant Pot success so you can make creamy, melty, sliceable cheeses right on your kitchen counter. Put the Instant Pot's consistent temperatures and push-button technology to work to create ricotta, mozzarella, queso blanco, burrata, quick cottage cheese, cream cheese, fast feta, sour cream, mascarpone, and more! Dairy-free options include Smoky Coconut Melter, Tangy Crumbler, and American Cheddar 'n' Chives Wheel. Cheese in an Instant, Really?

1 Getting Started

2 Cheese and Delicious Dairy

  Pressure Function, Pot-in-Pot

    Whole Milk Ricotta

    Tvorog, Russian Buttermilk Cheese

    Quick Cottage Cheese

    Paneer

    Queso Blanco, Farmer's Cheese

    Mild Goat Cheese

    Herb Lovers' Wheels

    Mascarpone

  Direct Heat, No Pressure

    Quick Mozzarella, Hot-Water Stretching Technique

    String Cheese, Microwave Stretching Technique

    Burrata

  Yogurt Function (Cultured), No Pressure

    Yogurt; also Greek Yogurt, Labneh, and Yogurt Cream Cheese

    Cultured Buttermilk

    Creme Fraiche

    Quark

    Sour Cream

    Just-like-Whipped Cream Cheese

    Fromage Blanc

    Honey-Lavender Chevre

    Fast Feta

Bonus Recipes

  Cultured Butter

  Ghee/Clarified Butter

3  Delicious Dairy-Free Alternatives

  Golden Umami Sauce with Oats, Potato, and Carrot

  Sharp White Sauce with Rice and Cauliflower

  Smoky Coconut Melter

  Tangy Crumbler with Almond Flour

  American Cheddar n Chives Wheel

  Pepper Jack Block

  Cold-Start Coconut Milk Yogurt

Troubleshooting

Acknowledgments

Resources and Further Reading

Metric Conversions for Cooking

Index

  "Claudia has once again made cheesemaking fun and accessible for everyone! Instant Pot Cheese is beautifully presented, easy to read, filled with simple and delicious recipes, and will give you another good reason never to put that multicooker away." - Gianaclis Caldwell, cheesemaker and author of Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking, Mastering Basic Cheesemaking, and Homemade Yogurt Kefir



"Just when I thought I couldn't love my Instant Pot more, Instant Pot Cheese comes about! From homemade feta to burrata, and even dairy-free cheeses, this book has it all. With easy-to-fol