Homemade Curd Cheese

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    12½ oz

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cuisines of Odesa: A Ukrainian Cookbook

By Maria Kalenska

Published 2026

  • About

Curd cheese, or syr, is one of those fundamental products that we Odesans eat almost daily. In my beloved Privoz Market, you will come across several tables dedicated just to this product (plus sometimes milk or butter). You can choose the level of saltiness and moisture you want in your cheese. Really good syr is naturally sweet and doesn’t keep well, so we like to eat it within a couple of days. If you can’t (yet!) visit the Privoz Market, I suggest you make the cheese at ho