Dulce de Queso

Sweet Cheese Curd

Preparation info
  • 10 to 12

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Secrets of Colombian Cooking

By Patricia McCausland-Gallo

Published 2004

  • About

This traditional dessert is like a grandmother’s dessert, but is not served very often due to the length of time it takes to prepare. I think it can be prepared easily in a slow cooker with a removable ceramic liner. This recipe comes from Claudia Mejía of Tentenpié Restaurant in Cali.

Ingredients

  • quarts fresh, raw, non-pasteurized milk
  • rennet tablet or cuajo

Method

  1. Remove the ceramic bowl from the slow cooker. Pour the milk into the slow-cooker bowl. Remove ½ cup of the milk and warm it to 110°F (just as warm as what you would give a baby in a bottle); mash and dissolve the piece of rennet tablet in the warm milk. Pour it back into the mil