Here, we will show you an amazingly easy way to make fresh cheese at home. In Afghanistan, cheese is served with raisins and is called kishmish paneer …. where kishmish stands for raisin and paneer stands for cheese. Homemade Cheese has chewy mozzarella like consistency and to make this fresh and delicious recipe only three ingredients is needed: milk, table cream and vinegar. Additionally, you will need a cheese cloth for draining the milk which you could easily find in any general or online store. What makes this recipe delicious and savory is the addition of raisins…. if you have never tried it before it is a must …an unbelievably delicious combination: kishmish paneer. It is usually served with hot cardamom Tea. Cardamom Tea is a big part of hospitality in Afghanistan…A guest is always offered some …There are many health benefits to using cardamom on a regular basis. As it has antibacterial and therapeutic effects. To add it in a tea, you can scoop out the seeds out of cardamom and crush them gently or grind the seeds in a spice grinder or a coffee grinder. Click here to Make some hot cardamom tea with milk (Sheer Chai Afghan) to serve with this delicious recipe.

What you need to make kishmish paneer (homemade cheese served with raisins )
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How you make kishmish paneer (homemade cheese served with raisins)
Directions
- Pour the milk in a pan. (Use a heave bottom sauce pan.)
- Pour the table cream and stir it constantly until it reaches right below boiling. You will see bubbles on the sides of the pan.
- Add vinegar (or lemon juice)
- The moment you add the vinegar, the milk will start to curdle.
If it doesn’t start curdling, you can add another tsp of vinegar or lemon juice. - Keep stirring until it separates into two layers: curdle and watery liquid.
- Let it aside few minutes before draining it.
- Put cheese cloth over colander to drain the watery liquid.(Here, we use a regular cloth as first layer to help us wash it later and then we use four layers of cheese cloth.)
- Drain all the watery liquid and save the curdle in the cheese cloth and wrap it.
- Wash it with cold water under sink.
- Leave it on a plate for few hours.
- Unwrap it, cut it and serve it with raisins.
kishmish paneer (homemade cheese served with raisins)
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hoursHere, we will show you an amazingly easy way to make fresh cheese at home. In Afghanistan, cheese is served with raisins and is called kishmish paneer …. where kishmish stands for raisin and paneer stands for cheese.
Ingredients
•t4 Litres of 3.25 % Milk
•t½ Litre of 15 % Table cream
• 25mL of vinegar (or lemon Juice)
Directions
- Pour the milk in a pan. (Use a heave bottom sauce pan. )
- Pour the table cream and stir it constantly until it reaches right below boiling. You will see bubbles on the sides of the pan.
- Add vinegar(or lemon juice)
- The moment you add the vinegar, the milk will start to curdle. If it doesn’t start curdling, you can use add another tsp of vinegar or lemon juice.
- Keep stirring until it separates into two layers: curdle and watery liquid.
- Let it aside few minutes before draining it.
- Put cheese cloth over colander to drain the watery liquid. Here, we use a regular cloth as first layer to help us wash it later and then we use four layers of cheese cloth
- Drain all the watery liquid and save the curdle in the cheese cloth and wrap it.
- Wash it with cold water under sink.
- Leave it on a plate for few hours.
- Unwrap it, cut it and serve it with raisins.
Recipe Video
Notes
- You can Use Vinegar or Lemon Juice.
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