Best Portuguese cheeses
Portugal is a country with a well recognized cuisine worldwide and of course its cheeses can be no exception, in this article we will show some of the best Portuguese cheeses, so that you want to know better the Portuguese cuisine.
Evora Cheese
Évora cheese, more precisely from the Alentejo, called PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) is made from sheep’s milk, a cheese with a more yellowish color, which darkens over time and in contact with the air, making it taste. slightly acidic and slightly spicy. With a smooth or slightly rough “peel” produced by coagulation of raw milk with the action of the thistle.
St. George’s Cheese
Cheese from the island of São Jorge in the Azores, or cheese from the island as it is known in mainland Portugal which for production purposes constitutes in its entirety the São Jorge Cheese Demarcated Region. With different characteristics from the great generality of Portuguese cheeses either by the pepperier taste, since they have a longer cure, either by their size and weight.
Azeitão Cheese
Cheese Azeitão is another sheep cheese produced in the regions of Azeitão, Palmela and Sesimbra in the municipality of Setubal south of the Tagus River. Only 8 cm in diameter and 5 cm high, Azeitão cheese has a very soft yellowish rind, weighing between 100 and 250 g. goes through a period of 20 days of cure, being commonly sold wrapped in parchment paper. With a paste it is soft, an intense aroma and taste that resembles those of the Serra cheese, even in the form of eating, once they can be barred.
Serra da Estrela Cheese
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Serpa Cheese
Another cheese from the Alentejo region, Serpa cheese is a cheese that is traditionally distinguished by its longest maturation period of at least 4 months. A cheese with a particularity, its cut should be made with only four movements, with religious beliefs being the cloth used for the filtration of milk to be folded rigorously 40 times.
