Minas vs Requeijão
Minas
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Country
- Brazil
Minas is a family of cow's milk cheeses from Brazil, and the name points to Minas Gerais, the state where the style took shape. The best-known version is fresh, white, moist, and mild, with little or no rind. Firmer versions are lightly cured, deeper in color, and easier to slice. All of them are everyday cheeses rather than long-aged grating wheels, and cooks use the fresh kind with bread and fruit. More than one style shares the name.
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.