Catupiry vs Requeijão
Catupiry
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Processed
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Brazil
Catupiry is a Brazilian brand of requeijão, a soft cow's milk spread sold in a pot rather than as a wheel. The paste is smooth, pale, and mild, with a body closer to thick cream than to a slice you cut. Producers blend fresh cream with curd and cook the mix until it turns silky and stable. There is no rind, and the cheese is not aged into a hard block. In Brazil the brand is common enough that many recipes write the name and mean this creamy style.
Requeijão
Facts
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Whey
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Portugal
Requeijão is a soft dairy food from Portugal, and a related product under the same name is a staple in Brazil. In Portugal it is a fresh whey cheese, made by heating the whey left from cheesemaking until the proteins set into a mild, moist curd. The taste is gentle, milky, and a little sweet, closer to a fresh whey cheese than to an aged wheel. It has no rind and no long cure. People eat it with a spoon, on bread, or in sweets.