Çökelek vs Cottage cheese
Çökelek
Facts
- Texture
- Fresh
- Type
- Fresh
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Turkey
Çökelek is a fresh Turkish curd cheese with a crumbly, lightly tangy character. It is made across Turkey, often at home as well as in dairies, and it has no single town of origin. Cooks heat yogurt, or the whey left from yogurt, until the proteins gather into small curds, then they drain those curds. The cheese is white, moist, and unsalted or only lightly salted at first. It is a cooking and breakfast cheese, not a cheese with a rind or a long age.
Cottage cheese
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Fresh
- Type
- Fresh
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- United States
Cottage cheese is fresh cow's-milk curd kept in soft lumps, usually in a creamy dressing. The name points to farm kitchens, where people made a simple cheese from milk they had on hand.