Pasta‐Filata Cheeses

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.