How to make Latvian Cheese | Janu Cheese | Jāņu siers

Hello everyone, welcome to my channel Alla's Yummy Food. it's a name it's a person's name which is really popular name by the way Jānis and siers is cheese in Russian you say sir so here you go you've got two languages how to say cheese and it's it's served obviously all year round but we traditionally have it on Līgo which is a traditional national holiday we have fires we have like flower I don't know what they called in English like flower things around your hair we've got cheese and beer and it's a really really amazing holiday and guys make sure you subscribe to my channel give me a thumbs up and leave the comment down below what is your favorite cheese also guys you can sponsor me by going on to patreon.com slash Alla's yummy food and become one of my patrons it's a platform to help me carry on with my youtube videos and kind of make my dreams come true you can sponsor me as much as you like and it's kind of an ongoing support monthly I already have 16 of you which means a lot to me and as some of you know I do want to invest into better equipment into second camera to make the videos much better and look more professional and obviously it is also my dream to publish perhaps a cookbook and if I'm going to do self-publishing then I really really need your support and anything helps so just go check it out I'll leave all the links down below in in my description box for you guys to check out and um yeah i really appreciate and love you all thank you all so much for everything that you say and all the love that you give in a large sauce pan add full fat milk then add full fat cottage cheese or farmer's cheese and keep mixing everything together until it starts to separate you want to cook this on a low heat for a good five to seven minutes and just keep mixing you'll start to see that the cottage cheese is floating on top and starting to separate it should look like this then we're going to strain this into another bowl we're going to keep a little bit of liquid but the majority of it is gonna have to go so just strain the cheese place it back into your pan then add butter and mix everything together wait until it melts and then add egg yolks then mix everything together and you might want to add a little bit of that milk water that we discarded before then add a pinch of salt and keep mixing everything together on the low heat the mixture will start to separate and become whole just keep using your wooden spatula and mixing it as you go this process will take some time so be patient when it looks nice and creamy just like that you want to add your cumin mix it all together you can add as much or as little as you want then take your cheesecloth and add your cheese mixture right in the middle this recipe makes two cheeses like that so I'm just going to show you example of one once you've added your cheese you want to take your cloth and just seal it from all the sides using a hair band or anything else that you can use to make sure that the mixture is nice and tight. Then place the mixture and your cheese outside for 24 hours and it should harden over the next day or two. You can find my full recipe on my website at allisyummyfood.com and check out all the other latest recipes. When the cheese is done you will see it's nice and hard so when we unwrap it it should come off the cheesecloth quite easily but still be quite gentle and don't pull too hard look at this beautiful yellow color the smell is amazing it's just one of the best cheeses you can guys have slice your cheese and it's very very nice and soft in the middle it's got golden color outside and it's got that delicious cumin flavor in every single bite enjoy this video i'll leave the list of other videos that i think you might like especially the cheese playlist because you know if you love cheese you're gonna want to check those out and a couple of the other recipes traditional Latvian and Russian foods and yeah give me thumbs up don't forget to hit that subscribe button and also the notification bell because if you don't click that you will not be notified when i upload the new videos so yeah guys see you next week bye