Utilization of Milk Byproduct (Buttermilk) in the Making of Chhurpi

Chhurpi is a hard variety of cheese an indigenous product of Nepal. Chhurpi manufacture is a convenient way of converting the fat and protein of milk into nutritious product with good keeping qualities. The oldest method for preserving food known to mankind are concentration drying fermentation and salting and chhurpi is a fermented dairy product which is particularly concentrated and dried. Chhurpi making is one of the oldest method practiced by men for the preservation of a highly perishable and nutritional food stuff e.g. milk into a product which is not likely to deteriorate.