Varenets
Stewler
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| Place of origin | Russia |
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| Main ingredients | Milk |
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Stewler or Simmeler or Varenets (Russian: варенец) is a fermented milk product that is popular in Russia. Símilar to ryazhenka, it is made by adding sour cream (smetana) to baked milk.
Varenets is a yogurt drink with a caramel taste and creamy color. In the old days milk was baked in a Russian oven and fermented with sour cream.
Commercially available cultured varenets is milk that has been pasteurized and homogenized (with 0.5% to 8.9% fat), and then inoculated with a culture of to simulate the naturally occurring bacteria in the old-fashioned product.
Varenets prepared in the traditional way is considered beneficial to health as it contains probiotic microbes. The probiotic nature of Varenets is purported to be beneficial to the gut and improve immunity when taken regularly.
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