Queso Panela vs Turrialba cheese
Queso Panela
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Fresh
- Type
- Fresh
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Mexico
Queso panela is a fresh white cheese from Mexico, made from cow's milk. It is the Mexican cheese of that name, not a goat cheese from California that sometimes uses a similar word. The loaf is soft, moist, and mild, and it has no rind. Basket molds leave a woven pattern on the surface, which is why people also call it queso de canasta. It is eaten fresh, not aged into a sharp wheel.
Turrialba cheese
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Fresh
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Place
- Turrialba, Cartago Province
Turrialba cheese is a cow's milk cheese from Turrialba, in Cartago Province, Costa Rica. The usual piece is fresh, creamy white to pale yellow, and lightly salted, with a compact semi-hard paste and no rind. It tastes mild and milky, with a clean sweetness and only a little acid. Dairies in that part of Cartago make it as an everyday cheese, not as a long aged wheel. Costa Ricans slice it, cook with it, and melt it in simple meals.