Homemade buttermilk

Buttermilk, also known as buttermilk, is a widely used ingredient in Anglo-Saxon recipes. Let's see how it prepares.

Buttermilk, which Americans call buttermilk, is one of the most used ingredients for the preparation of desserts made in the USA. However, in our latitudes it remains a little-known and difficult to find ingredient . What will this buttermilk be?

It is the by-product of the transformation of cream into butter : this gives buttermilk a light sour note which enhances the flavor of desserts. Among other things, buttermilk gives great softness to the preparation, and this is why it is used so often, even to make the famous pancakes. Finding it in our shops is often impossible, but we can prepare it at home , so that we can indulge in the whim of making very delicious Yankee recipes that are as similar as possible to the originals. There are different paths that can be followed, let's look at them all.

• Homemade buttermilk
• How to replace buttermilk
• Recipes with buttermilk

How to make homemade buttermilk

1. To prepare the buttermilk, pour the fresh liquid cream, also very cold, into a glass bowl, preferably cooled first.
2. With an electric mixer, whip the cream . Continue for about a quarter of an hour or more, until the cream begins to disassemble, i.e. the separation of the liquid from the solid, i.e. from the fats, has begun.
3. The fat part will become butter, which you can save and use for your recipes. The liquid part will be the buttermilk.
4. All you have to do is filter everything with a sieve, so that it separates perfectly without lumps of fat (butter). Place it in an airtight glass container and keep it in the fridge before using it for your recipes.

How to replace buttermilk

There is also another way to prepare a "fake" buttermilk with yogurt. The ingredients are:

• 70 g of low-fat yogurt without sugar
• 70 g of skimmed milk
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Combine the low-fat yogurt, the skimmed milk and a teaspoon of lemon juice in a bowl. Mix and let rest for about ten minutes at room temperature. At this point it is ready to be used in recipes: although prepared in an alternative way to the original, the result is truly amazing.

In this short video you can observe the steps.

Recipes with buttermilk

If you are here you probably already have an idea of ​​how to use it. If this is not the case, here are some recipes with buttermilk typical of Anglo-Saxon cuisine.

• Pancakes : instead of milk it will help make them even softer;
• Red velvet : the dessert made in the USA par excellence;
• Fried Chicken : Buttermilk is used to marinate the chicken and give it incredible tenderness;
• Soda bread : a particular and soft bread that has our buttermilk as its main ingredient.

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