Can you tell me the difference between using sour cream and buttermilk.

Cultured dairy products are great for making dips and topping chilis and soups.They're versatile and often interchangeable, and they have a long list of health benefits.

They're easy to make at home with a few basic ingredients.You can make your own sour cream and crme frache.

The first thing you'll need to make sour cream and crme frache is buttermilk.Milk with an acidic ingredient is added to make it ferment.

If you want to make it at home, add lemon juice or white vinegar to each cup of milk and let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes.It is ready to use when it is slightly thickened.It's a perfect substitute for the store-bought kind.

You don't need a lot of cream to make sour cream.If you want a thicker sour cream, choose it based on the texture you're looking for.

Add 2 to 3 cups of heavy cream or half and half, and let it sit at room temperature for 1 to 2 days.The acid in the buttermilk protects againstbacteria, so don't worry about the cream going bad.It will stay in the fridge for about a week.