Kitchens of peoples, borrowing from each other traditions, exchanging dishes, try to keep the recipe to trifles. Mediterranean cuisine was shared with Slavic risotto, pizza, pasta. The obligatory ingredient of many dishes borrowed from it is parmesan cheese. However, its cost is high for the average citizen. A dish overseas cook something hunting!
Can, replace expensive cheese with something more affordable? Why not. Some analogues of cheeses will completely replace parmesan - those that stand close to him in the line of cheese flavors.
Parmesan: tasty and expensive. ..
Parmesan is expensive because its production is rather difficult. The creation of 40 kg of elite cheese is 550 liters of milk - a decent amount compared to other colleagues. After a year's stand, each head undergoes a thorough examination. Insufficient density, air got - the cheese is culled.
This Parmesan continues to mature for another 2 years, until it acquires real hardness and a scaly structure. In dishes, it is appreciated by the fact that it does not spread at hot temperatures, and, grated finely in salad and meat, gives them nutty notes of taste.
Cheeses that will replace Parmesan
On this basis, you are looking for cheese that looks like its Parmesan qualities. And it turns out that the non-eating eaters have something to replace this cheese:
- Firstly - Lithuanian cheeses "Rokiskis" or "Djugas".They strongly resemble Parmesan in taste and structure. One thing is bad: not every region can boast of having them in the range of cheeses sold in stores.
- Secondly, Parmesan can replace any of the hard cheeses of local production - Altaic, for example. But again, it depends on the region and the cheese production established in it.
- Third, you can search for a cheaper analogue of Parmesan in his homeland. There will be found a variety of "Grana Padano".With the same nutty flavor, the same hard, only more salty. And if the dish is less salted, the difference becomes less and noticeable. This version of the replacement is suitable even for cooking risotto, other dishes, where parmesan is used by thin plates.
- It is much easier to replace Parmesan in salads, for example, in "Caesar", where the cheese is crushed for taste. Here you can use Russian or Dutch cheese. Do you think that it is a semi-solid or even a cheese product? After lying for several days in the refrigerator, he, dried, differs little in structure from the required ingredient. As for the taste, we will get a new note - the domestic one.
These parmesan substitutes are good, but not for a true connoisseur of cheese. A gourmet, who knows his taste perfectly, will immediately notice the substitution.