Tibetan cheese

Tibetan cheese

Tibetan cheese is an important part of Tibetan cuisine. Soft cheese curds resembling cottage cheese, made from buttermilk, are called chura loenpa (or ser).Food in Tibetan Life By Rinjing Dorfe, pp. 93, 96] Hard cheese is called chura kampo. Extra hard cheese, made from solidified yoghurt, is called chhurpi, and is also found in Sikkim and Nepal. [http://www.ethnorema.it/pdf/numero%201/BRYAN%20ALLEN%20and%20SILVIA%20ALLEN.pdf Mozzarella of the East: Cheese-making and Bai culture] ] Another type of cheese called shosha or churul, with a flavor said to resemble Limburger, is made from cream and the skin of milk.

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