PROCESS FOR ENHANCEMENT OF YIELD OF COTTAGE CHEESE (PANEER) BY RE-CIRCULATION OF CONCENTRATED WHEY

摘要

A process for enhancing the recovery of paneer from milk comprising: i) collection of milk, ii) heat treatment for pasteurization and denaturing whey proteins, iii) collecting product obtained from (ii) above in a mixing tank for desired duration till the desired pH is achieved, iv) draining whey by retaining the paneer by hooping, v) collecting hot whey drained from step (iv) above in a non-reactive tank, vi) passing the hot whey so collected through heat exchanger to reduce its temperature to an optimum level, vii) filtering the cooled whey suitably for removing suspended particle and to substantially concentrate solid not fat (SNF), viii) recirculating the concentrated whey by feeding in step (iii) above as coagulator for paneer making/processing, ix) repeating steps (iii) to (viii) as above as many times as needed to obtain desired substantially enhanced yield of recovered paneer and until the residual liquid contains no proteins and the same liquid be used for other industrial purposes.