The essential flavour only in salads! NOT! (Feta)

Member Name: Jpdm

Product:	Feta
Date:	16/03/01 (712 review reads)
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Advantages: great flavour, versatile to cook with

Disadvantages: a bit expensive

Feta is the very well known cheese that is mainly produced in Greece. It is made using ewe and goat milk with a consistency of about 65-35%.

It is also produced in France and Germany, but the original taste can only be found in the Greek feta cheese.

Once across it, you will be amased by its whiteness! I do not know why but that was the first thing that struck me. As far as its texture, you should close your eyes and try to taste or feel the munchiness and crumblessness (is there such a word!) of this cheese.

I have found it in a lot of supermarkets in the UK. As an example I have found it to be selling at £9.95/kgr, which I reckon isn't so expensive for such a delicacy.

If you have visited or have friends that have visited Greece, the first thing that you will hear from them is greek salad. Well, surprise surprise, feta cheese is one of the main ingredients of this kind of salad. There a lot of other ways to cook with it.

What must be taken under consideration, is that feta cheese is quite a salty cheese containing around 50% of fat. This varies a lot if bought in Greece depending on the region (it can reach up to 75%), so check prior to purchase.

Now, what good is it to buy a more expensive cheese than your usual cheddar, if you do not where to use it for cooking? Some ideas are shown below. Good luck with them!

Greek salad: the original consists of tomatoes, sliced onions, peppers, olives and feta cheese with a drip of olive oil - "alternative" -> feta cheese with olive oil in a bed of lettuce leaves

Stuffed peppers: thinly slice some tomatoes and mix them with feta cheese (according to your taste) until made to a mix. Then cut the top of the peppers (prefer the green ones for a variety of colour of the end meal) and place the mix in them. Place them in the oven (150C) until the pepper is soft. Take care not to burn them. You will see that the feta cheese when melt, it has a
magnificent texture that will surprise you.

All in all feta cheese is a good solution when your cooking contains some kind of cheese. In most of those cases, you can replace whatever cheese you are using with feta. It also tastes nice on top of past! Just try it!

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Here's a quicky recepie needing only extra virgin olive oil, some pasta (preferably spagetti and some feta cheese).

Boil the pasta to your liking and dress them with the olive oil. For about 200g of pasta you should dress them in about 1.5 teaspoons of olive oil. Use good quality olive oil in order not to be left with a "greasy" taste. After coating the pasta crumble some feta cheese on top and voila! C'est pres!

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