StovetopMexican
Homemade crema
Cream, a spoon of sour cream or buttermilk, salt, an hour on the counter. Thinner than sour cream, tangier than cream.
Made it?
10 min · 10 min hands-on · pull 185°F
Ingredients
2 lb on the fire · ~1.4 lb to the table · 3 plates at 8 oz
- heavy cream1 cup
- sour cream or buttermilk2 tbsp
- kosher salt1/2 tsp
- lime, optional1/2
Method
- 1
Stir cream, sour cream, salt. Counter 1 hour until it thickens slightly.
- 2
Lime if you want. Fridge after that.
- 3
Sour cream thinned with lime is the 2-minute stand-in. Call it that.
On the plate
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