The Best Recipe For Homemade Crème Fraîche

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Making crème fraîche is super easy. This recipe uses a combination of unpasteurized cream and buttermilk as the bacterial culture.

Crème Fraîche is a French cream dairy product. It can be be used in place of sour cream, plain yogurt or sweetened for a fruit or sweet bread dip.

What is Crème Fraîche?

Crème Fraîche, pronounced krem fresh, is a dairy product that you may hear chef’s talk about on cooking channels. It is somewhat comparable to sour cream but may be a bit thicker, richer and less tangy than sour cream. Plain yogurt is also comparable but the yogurt tends to be a bit thinner. Therefore, if you don’t have any on hand you can always use sour cream or plain yogurt. But I highly recommend making and using this recipe. You’ll see. You know, now that I get to thinking about it I’m not even sure I have seen crème fraîche in grocery stores.

This recipe is using unpasteurized heavy whipping cream and cultured butter milk. Yep, that is it! Be sure the heavy whipping cream is unpasteurized and not ultra-pasteurized. Combine the two ingredients in a clean sterile glass jar and cover with a natural non-bleached coffee filter or paper towel and rubber band so the mixture can breathe. Place in a warm area away from drafts for 24 hours.

After the 24 hours have passed you will notice the mixture had thickened some. This is normal but now the mixture needs to be placed into the refrigerator for 24 hours. During this time the mixture will thicken even more. Then you are ready to use.

How do you use crème fraîche

Use crème fraîche in any recipe that calls for sour cream or yogurt. Examples include:

• Use on baked potatoes
• Sweet dipping sauce for our cinnamon pretzels
• Add a dollop to soups
• Use when making vegetable sauces
• Add atop fresh fruit.
• Use in our Savory Onion Pie recipe

Use as a substitute for yogurt, sour cream or even mayonnaise in most recipes. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. These labels are pretty handy when storing your crème fraîche in the refrigerator. Enjoy!

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Crème Fraîche

Crème Fraîche is a dairy product that can be substituted for sour cream, plain yogurt or sometimes mayonnaise. Dollop it on soups, baked potatoes or add sugar to it and make a sweet dipping sauce for fruits or our cinnamon pretzels. 

Course condiment, sauces

Cuisine French

Keyword creme fraiche, dipping sauce, soup, sour cream, toppings, yogurt

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 24 minutes

Reaches full consistency in 4 days. Can be used after 24 hours 4 days

Total Time 4 days 39 minutes

Servings 2 cups

Author jettskitchen.com

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream unpasteurized if possible
• 1/2 cup cultured buttermilk low Fat

Instructions

1. Combine the two ingredients in a clean sterile jar and cover with a coffee filter or paper towel and rubber band so the mixture can breathe. Place in a warm area away from drafts for 24 hours.

2. After the 24 hours have passed you will notice the mixture had thickened some. This is normal but now the mixture needs to be placed into the refrigerator for 24 hours. During this time the mixture will thicken. You can use it after it's been in the refrigerator after the first 24 hours. It will reach its max thickness after 4 days. 

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