What is Manchego?
Manchego is the most famous export of Spain of cheese, which comes from La Mancha, which will also become the home of Don Quixote, the most famous literary export of Spain. The real Spanish Manchego is made of sheep's milk, because the rocky and hostile terrain of this part of Spain did not allow cattle cultivation. It is a delicious solid cheese that is sold in forms of young and old, with different intensity of taste depending on how aging the cheese is. It is also crumbly and dry. Made of sheep's milk has a higher fat content than cow cheese, which is in turn solid than the goat's milk. Young Manchego, also called smoked Manchego, has a fine flavor, while old cheese has dist.inct Peppery Bite.
Manchego is produced by heating milk using rennet and special cultures to turn the milk. The shaped milk cottage cheese is then pressed to remove the whey and then lean to stimulate the cheeseto form a hard bark. After the performance, it is allowed to age after blurring olive oil to prevent the development of harmful bacteria. After 13 weeks, it can be sold as a cured Manchego and is considered to be aging after three months or more.
Because Manchego is made of sheep milk, it has several different properties that separate it from similar cheeses of cow's milk. Manchego tends to have a much more assertive bites. It also tends to taste more strongly about the diet of sheep, with tones of herbs and plants in the final product along with Lanolin's aroma. When the cheese is unpacked, it often smells of sheep, suggests the scent of baked lamb for some consumers.
Manchego is considered to be excellent cheese and can complement any food. With robust red wine and sharp fruits such as apples, goes well. Barbecue and baking also take good, even if it does not hide it like some cow's milk cheeses. The taste is strong and will persist on the taste buds and develop another flavorUTU if the cheese consumer saves it. For this reason, some people do not like this cheese - the flavor of "limited" does not like everyone. Manchego, however, is worth trying and can be found on the markets of cheeses around the world.