Cheese Database

Korall vs Liptauer

Korall

Facts

Milk
Cow
Texture
Soft
Type
Processed
Rind
No rind
Country
Russia

Korall is a soft processed cheese from Russia, made with cow's milk and a shrimp flavor. The paste is pink, smooth, and easy to spread, and black pepper often comes with the seafood taste. It is sold in small boxes and tubes rather than as a cut wheel with a rind. Several firms make it, and no single company owns the name. The cheese is a flavored spread, not a farmhouse round you age at home.

Liptauer

Facts

Texture
Fresh
Type
Fresh
Rind
No rind
Country
Hungary

Liptauer is a seasoned cheese spread from Hungary, sold in pots and also mixed at home. Soft white curd cheese is blended with sweet paprika, onion, and warm spices until the paste turns rosy orange. The result is not a wheel and it has no rind. It is a spoonable mixture meant for bread and raw vegetables. In Hungarian cooking the same spread is widely known as körözött, and paprika is the flavor people expect first.