Instant Pot Homemade Cream Cheese (2024)

This Instant Pot Homemade Cream Cheese is so creamy, easy, fresh and delicious you will never want to buy it again.

Homemade Cream Cheese is so smart. Sometimes you need cream cheese for a recipe and you do not have any. This clever hack will allow you to make it quick, it is already at room temperature and you control the quality of the ingredients.

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• 30 Minute: Less than thirty minutes
• Easy Ingredients: 3 Ingredients
• Adaptable: Can make it low-fat, sodium free, no preservatives.

What You Need to Make Cream Cheese

Ingredients

• milk
• lemon juice
• salt

Equipment

• Instant Pot
• Strainer
• Cheese Cloth
• Food Processor
• Slotted Spider Spoon

How to Make Instant Pot Cream Cheese – Step by Step

• Pour: First, in instant pot, pour in milk and lemon juice.
• Cook: Second, set instant pot for 6 minutes on low pressure.
• Release: Next, naturally release pressure for 10 minutes, then release any other pressure manually.
• Stir: Then stir, curds should have separated from milk leaving whey.

• Strain: Place a cheese cloth over a strainer and remove the curds with a slotted spoon or spider spoon. Place the curds on the cheese cloth and then cool.
• Squeeze: Once cooled, wrap the cloth and squeeze the curds until dry.
• Smooth: Finally, place the cheese curds in a food processor and blend until smooth. Salt to taste.

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Common Questions About Instant Pot Cream Cheese

Expert Tips for Making Homemade Cream Cheese

• Add Fruit: Great to smear on your favorite bagel or to dip your favorite cookie.
• Herbs: This is great to add fresh garlic and herbs to make a fabulous dip.
• Variation tip: Feel free to add as many tips as you need in this section.
• Fat Bombs: Wonderful for using to make Fat Bombs. The ingredients are so clean and fresh.

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Instant Pot Cream Cheese

Yield: 2 cups

Prep: 15 minutes minutes

Cook: 26 minutes minutes

Total: 41 minutes minutes

This Instant Pot Homemade Cream Cheese is so creamy, easy, fresh and delicious you will never want to buy it again.

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Equipment

• ▢

  Instant Pot

Ingredients

• ▢ 8 cups of milk
• ▢ 6 tbsp of lemon juice
• ▢ Dash of salt, optional

Instructions

• In instant pot, pour in milk and lemon juice. Give it a little stir.

• Close the lid, seal the pressure valve and set instant pot for 6 minutes on low pressure.

• Once finished, allow the instant pot to naturally release pressure for 10 minutes, then release any other pressure manually.

• Stir result. Curds should have separated from milk leaving whey.

• Place a cheese cloth over a strainer and remove the curds with a slotted spoon or spider spoon. Place the curds on the cheese cloth and let the curds come to room temp.

• Once cooled, wrap the cloth and squeeze the curds until dry.

• For smooth creamy cream cheese, place the cheese curds in a food processor and blend until smooth. This is the point you would add salt to taste and or other flavor options.

Expert Tips

• Add Fruit: Great to smear on your favorite bagel or to dip your favorite cookie.
• Herbs: This is great to add fresh garlic and herbs to make a fabulous dip.
• Variation tip: Feel free to add as many tips as you need in this section.
• Fat Bombs: Wonderful for using to make Fat Bombs. The ingredients are so clean and fresh.

Estimated Nutritional Information

Calories: 605kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 31g | Fat: 32g | Saturated Fat: 18g | Cholesterol: 98mg | Sodium: 420mg | Potassium: 1335mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 50g | Vitamin A: 1584IU | Vitamin C: 17mg | Calcium: 1106mg | Iron: 1mg

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Author: Christina Hitchco*ck

Course: Other

Cuisine: American

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