I love cooking with cheese – it lends a nice creaminess to dishes while packing quite a punch of flavor. Here are a couple of tips to ensure the best results when cooking with cheese.
- To keep cheese from becoming tough and stringy, cook it at low temperatures and always add the cheese at the end of the cooking time.
- Cheese melts and blends better if you shred it or cut it into small pieces.
- To shred cheese with soft texture, use a grater with large holes, or finely chop it.
- Lower-fat cheeses don’t melt well.
- When grilling/baking cheese-topped dishes, keep a close eye on them, because the cheese melts fast.
- Cheese microwaves well, but use lower power settings.
4 Comments
June 10, 2008 at 10:28 am
I love cheesy omlettes and I am going to try out your tip of adding it later on and heat it at a lower temperature.
June 11, 2008 at 11:47 am
I love panir (paneer). It’s a soft Indian cheese that usually comes cubed in side dishes and appetizers at ethnic restaurants. It has a kind of “squeaky” quality about it when you bite into it. It’s very mild and tasty with palak (a spinach dish) and tikka (a kind of barbeque).
June 11, 2008 at 10:40 pm
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August 11, 2008 at 12:28 pm
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