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Whether you like your sour cream slathered on Mexican food, potatoes, desserts or fresh fruit, learn to create your own at home. This page on how to make sour cream details two different sour cream recipes you can use to make sour cream at home. You can also turn the sour cream into flavorful sauces, dips and dressings with a few simple recipe variations. Read on to learn how to make sour cream.
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Sour Cream Tips
- Make sour cream by combining light cream and buttermilk in a sterilized jar.
- Let the mixture sit at room temperature until it reaches the desired thickness.
- To produce a thicker sour cream, use cream with a higher fat content.
- Create a version of sour cream by blending cottage cheese, lemon juice and milk.
- Flavor the blender sour cream by adding spices or chopped vegetables before mixing.
- Store the toppings for two to three weeks in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
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Preparing Sour Cream for Chicken Flautas
The chef in this video suggests thinning the sour cream to create a smooth sauce to accompany Mexican foods, such as chicken flautas. She adds a bit of milk to the sour cream, then mixes it with an electric mixer until its smooth. After its finished, she stores it in the refrigerator until needed.
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Introduction
- Silky smooth sour cream not only makes a cool topping for sweet and savory dishes, but you can also incorporate it into recipes from chicken dishes to banana bread.All Recipes: Sour Cream Chicken and Potatoes All Recipes: Banana Sour Cream Bread.
Making Sour Cream
- Control your sour cream's texture, thickness and tang by making your own overnight. This recipe will create about two cups of the condiment. However, if you need the sour cream immediately, you can also make a quick cup of sour cream in a blender using cottage cheese as the base.
Overnight Method to Make Sour Cream
- What You'll Need
- 2 cups light cream (like half and half)
- 3 tablespoons buttermilk
- Canning jar
- What to Do
- Sterilize a canning jar in boiling water.Recipezaar: Homemade Sour Cream
- Pour the cream and buttermilk into the hot jar.Cooks.com: Homemade Sour Cream
- Cover the jar tightly and shake to combine the ingredients.Recipezaar: Homemade Sour Cream
- Keep at room temperature until it reaches the desired thickness.Farmers' Almanac: Sour Cream
- -A higher percentage of butterfat in the cream will produce a thicker sour cream.David Fankhauser, PhD: Sour Cream
- Stir before serving.Cooks.com: Homemade Sour Cream
- Store in the refrigerator up to three weeks.Recipezaar: Homemade Sour Cream
- -Throw the sour cream away if mold begins to form on the top.Recipezaar: Sour Cream
Blender Method to Make Sour Cream
- What You'll Need
- 1 cup low-fat cottage cheese
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons skim milk
- Blender
- What to Do
Variations
- If you want to impart a little extra flavor to your sour cream to accompany a specific recipe, consider the following ingredients that you can combine with the sour cream.
- Flavor the sour cream by adding items like fresh garlic, cracked pepper, chopped bell peppers or pimento before mixing the sour cream in a blender.Recipezaar: Homemade Sour Cream
- Combine sour cream with mayonnaise and cider vinegar to create a tangy salad dressing or dip.Martha Stewart: Sour Cream Dressing
- Add port, red wine, tomato paste and canned chipotle chilies to make spicy sour cream.Epicurious: Chipotle Creme Fraiche
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