How to make a Hungarian Túró Rudi at home?
I want to make some Túró Rudi for a Hungarian friend. Túró Rudi is a chocolate sweet available to buy in Hungary, and vast numbers are sold every year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BAr%C3%B3_Rudi
The outside is easy, it's just chocolate. The tricky part is the inside, which has the consistency of the inside of a Bounty (coconut) bar for those that know it. the centre is white firm and sweet, but in the Túró Rudi it is made with cottage cheese (Túró) and sugar, but how can I make a firm, sugary centre out of cottage cheese? I've had them in a restaurant so they can certainly be made in a kitchen.
I've searched and searched for a recipe, but I cannot find one. I'm happy to experiment, and any help is welcome.
Best Answer
I spent quite a bit of time working on a variety of recipes for this. In all honesty, none are particularly close to the "real thing" but the results can taste pretty good and are reminiscent of the actual product.
The main challenge is in buying authentic túró. After a lot of work, I've confirmed that there's no standard, easily available equivalent in the UK. British quark, an easily available curd, is very different to túró. British cottage cheese is really nothing like túró. So if you're in the UK and want to make anything with túró, you'll need to compromise on taste, or buy some túró from a Hungarian or Eastern/Central European provider. Alternatively you could make your own by acquiring the curd from soured milk.
The recipe I used with the best results was simple. Mix the túró with a little sour cream and some fine sugar to sweeten it to your taste. Stir in some liquid (melted) gelatine. Pour the mixture into moulds (I used a small ice cube tray) and freeze it. When frozen hard, quickly dip each in chocolate and put them in the fridge.
The texture is jelly-like, which is very different to a real túró rudi (which is firm and slightly crystalline), but it tastes pretty good.
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Answer 2
In the US you can use ricotta cheese.
for a 32. oz. tub, put in 2 tbs sour cream, 1 tbs. melted butter, 1/2 tsp. fresh lemon zest (you can leave it out) 1 tbs sugar little unflavored gelatin to help stay in shape As Hungarian i can tell you, this is close enough :)
Sweet Ricotta Cheese Balls (Hungarian Túrógombóc, Turogomboc) is an other hit for Hungarians, really easy to make them: http://allrecipes.com/personalrecipe/63603144/sweet-ricotta-cheese-balls-hungarian-turogomboc-turogomboc/detail.aspx
Answer 3
You have to make your own cheese 4 liter milk give you 500gr soft cheese Worm up the milk 7 min. Thermo meter is your index finger When hot finger cannot stand but not boil, Put a cup of vinegar in and stir until You see the cheese Filter through a cloth and have 500gr chemical free cheese 10 minits
Answer 4
Perhaps a combination of cottage and cream cheese put into an ice tube mold and allowed time to set a bit.
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