Homemade Mozzarella

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Creamy, with large melting qualities, homemade mozzarella takes astir 40 minutes to marque astatine home. Any market store beverage volition enactment for this recipe, but the amended the milk, the amended the spirit of the cheese.

For this recipe, usage lone non-chlorinated water; spot the NOTE, below. You’ll request an instant-read thermometer and food-safe gloves (for handling the blistery cheese).

This food is champion consumed connected the time it’s made.

Look for rennet astatine Latin market stores, astatine stores that transportation beermaking supplies oregon online. Citric acerb is disposable successful the canning conception of market and hardware stores.

If you request to de-chlorinate the water, you’ll request to permission it retired astatine country somesthesia astatine slightest overnight and up to 24 hours.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 1 pound

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons citric acerb (see headnote)
  • 1 1/4 cups cool, chlorine-free h2o (see NOTE)
  • 1/4 spoon (or 1/4 tablet) rennet (see headnote)
  • 1 gallon full milk
  • Kosher salt
  • 2 oregon 3 bladed slices prosciutto (see VARIATIONS; optional)

From Cathy Barrow, the writer of “Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving” (W.W. Norton, 2014).

Tested by Cathy Barrow.

Published February 17, 2015

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Updated March 15, 2026

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