Pasta-filata cheeses

Abstract

This chapter discusses various kinds of Pasta-Filata cheeses, such as Caciocavallo Podolico PDO, Kachkaval, and Kashar. Kashkaval-type Kashar cheese is common in the Trakia region. Kashar cheese is a hard cheese with no holes but a rind, and it is yellowish in colour. Kasseri has a closed texture with no holes and a mild, mellow, faintly sweet flavour. The flavour is more pronounced when cheeses are well matured. Ragusano PDO is a stretched-curd cheese made with cow's raw whole milk. It is a high in fat and protein cheese, and it has a low moisture content when aged. Ragusano PDO has a parallelepiped shape with a square section and rounded corners. Parenica is a pasta-filata-type cheese, made from full-fat sheep's milk that is not heat-treated. The most characteristic feature of Parenica is its unique form of the double ribbon, as well as its stringy structure and attractive, softly acidic flavour with the sheep's milk overtones.