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Braided cheese is a dairy product made from strips of highly elastic cheese wound together in a braid.
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n nations make varieties of braided cheese. These cheeses can be used in a variety of dishes or eaten plain. Some varieties benefit from a soak in cold water, to soften the cheese, and to remove excess salt.
Kurdish Penêrê Honandî, Syrian Akawi, Turkish Örgü peyniri and Latin American Asadero
Asadero cheese (''queso asadero'' meaning "roastable" or "for grilling," also spelled "azadero") is a white, flat Mexican cheese that is made fresh from goat and cow's milk. "Asadero" is the kind of cheese, and individual pieces of the cheese are ...
are all examples of braided cheese.
See also
*String cheese
String cheese is any of several different types of cheese where the manufacturing process aligns the proteins in the cheese, which makes it stringy.
When mozzarella is heated to 60 °C (140 °F) and then stretched, the milk proteins ...
* Chechil
Chechil ( hy, չեչիլ) or chechili ( ka, ჩეჩილი) is an Armenian brined string cheese,Petrosian., I. and Underwood., D. (2006). ''Armenian Food: Fact, Fiction and Folklore''. Yerkir Publishing, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. popular in ...
* List of stretch-cured cheeses
This is a list of stretch-curd cheeses, comprising cheeses prepared using the ''pasta filata'' technique. The cheeses manufactured from this technique undergo a plasticising and kneading treatment of the fresh curd in hot water, which gives them ...
* Oaxaca cheese
Oaxaca cheese ( es, queso Oaxaca) ( ), also known as quesillo and queso de hebra, is a white, semihard, low-fat cheese that originated in Mexico. It is similar to unaged Monterey Jack, but with a texture similar to mozzarella or string cheese.
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