WTF is Quark and what use is it?

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DP bought it because it looks like it should be Greek Yogurt. It is not Even DDug won't touch it. Please regale me me stories of how to make it edible

Disclaimer: Light-hearted.

Its zero fat cheese. You can use it in sauces but it splits like a bitch so make sire you turn off the heat and leave for about 5 mins before adding. You can make mac cheese out of it and cottage cheese too. Just look up quark and slimming world you will get loads of recipes.

Quark is quite clearly a Ferengi

Quark, icing sugar(to taste) and frozen raspberries... makes a lovely dessert!

Slimming World recipes use it quite a lot. Bland on its own but useful for bulking up food instead of cottage cheese, I think. It’s ok.

I've used it before instead of ricotta

My mum likes it but then she likes carob

Only good if you're on a crash diet and all the food you're allowed is equally joyless.

I've used it to make low calorie pesto. Obviously not as nice as pesto with shit loads of pine nuts, parmesan and olive oil but was still nice enough.

I like the flavoured ones, you can buy little pots of it. I have it nearly every day. Lindahls do some great flavours.

Quark is quite clearly a Ferengi

Brilliant!

I thought Quark was a myth propagated by Slimming World and didn't really exist.

It’s very very normal and often used on the continent.
Makes THE BEST cheese cake.

Cottage cheese's dodgy cousin

Throw it away..work of the devil

Quite nice if you shove hot chocolate in it

I would never use it in a cheesecake (but that's down to family tradition).

Quarktaschen on the other hand:
www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/1049621209911610/Quarktaschen.html

I'm just under six stone and a couple of inches over five foot four. Thank you for the suggestions ☺

A couple of mm over that lol 😂

I tried using it in lieu of ricotta (supermarket didn't have ricotta 😡). It was ok...different taste and runnier, but small children accepted it in spinach and ricotta (quark) roll.

I'm not overly keen on it as a cheese thing, but I'm now interested in the cheesecake potential.

it's what's used in germany and austria for cheese cake.
protein rich, low fat.

use as you would otherwise use cream cheese.

I used to work in a supermarket and an elderly lady came in and asked me to help her find the Quark and the linseed oil. She said she had a spoonful of them both every day to help her stay young. She was 90 and as bouncy as Tigger so I think she was definitely onto sonething!

The Ikea quark dessert is lovely. Sounds like the raspberry and icing sugar one mentioned. I’m delighted I can eat it and pretend I’m dieting.

I absolutely love it
I mix it with a few tablespoons of museli
Delicious

There's a vanilla quark at Tesco that is sooooo nice, I could eat it by the bucket.

It's the noise posh ducks make - Quark Quark