category: food/groceries: milk and dairy products: cheese
Ricotta salata
Ricotta salata is, like all
Ricotta varieties,
a
fresh cheese
of the category
whey cheeses.
Ricotta salata is produced from the
whey
of sheep milk. It comes from the Italian island Sardinia. Ricotta salata
has a blunt conical form, just like the baskets it drains in.
The rindless cheese is sold in portions of 1 to 1.5 kg.
Its milky white interior is soft and spreadable.
Sold as
table cheese
Ricotta salata has a ripening time of 20 to 30
days, as a grating cheese even 6 months. The fresh cheese variety
has a mild, slightly salty
taste.
Ricotta salata is available at different
fat levels
but mostly sold in its full fat variety of at least 45 percent
fat in dry matter.
A variety of the salted Ricotta salata is the smoked
Ricotta salata al forno.
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