Sirene - white Bulgarian cheese

Sirene is the famous Bulgarian cheese. He is famous for the fact that he is very fond of foreigners, in particular Russian-speaking, but at the same time incorrectly called. They believe that it is cheese. Why do they think so? Because they said so.

How else can a person explain the taste of an unknown product? Just comparing it with something similar. I know that they are explaining it to everyone and I myself have been able to say the same thing, but at the same time I always add that the siren is only approximately like cheese. In fact, these are two different products, because they are made differently. In Bulgaria, cheese is called siren, which was made with violations of manufacturing technology or siren mixed with cottage cheese or skis. Like this)

The word "siren" in Bulgaria is called only white cheese. Yellow, familiar to us, is called "Qashqaval". By the way, to make the siren white, it is bleached. Just do not ask what - I do not know)

The siren is dry and in brine - then it is called “salamurino siren”, because in Bulgarian “salamur” it is brine.

What does the white siren taste like? The last taste is my favorite. This is the Dunavia variety.

What makes the siren: from milk and various sourdough. Milk comes from buffalo, cow, goat or sheep. And there are milk mixtures. I eat only from cow's milk - “Dunavia” is made from it.

Also, the sirens differ in consistency: it is the siren like cottage cheese, it is used for filling pies and stuffing vegetables. Called "natroseno siren"; There are hard, which are well cut with a knife, soft and melted, like cheese.

The price per kilogram of siren starts from 1.5 euros in terms of leva and reaches 10 euros per kilogram. The cheapest siren, as a rule, is made from vegetable fats and is called "imitation product".

Sirene contains:

• calcium,
•      amino acids:
•      leucine
•      isoleucine
•      lysine
•      methionine
•      phenylalanine
•      tyrosine
•      threonine
•      tryptophan
•      valine
•      lipids (with high fat content),
•      lactic acid
•      vitamins A, D, E, B1, B12.

Syrena is oily (45% and above), bold (25% -45%) and nonfat (15% on average).

Varieties of Bulgarian siren is not considered! In Bulgaria itself, it is an indispensable product: it is eaten by everyone and in everything. Sirene is put in the famous Bulgarian salads: “Ovcharska” and “Shopska”. They are stuffed with peppers and they are made into "Chushka-burek", they are put on the table as a snack, they simply spread it on bread, they fill the Bulgarian puff pie with Banitsa, they make "Panagyur eggs". In general, you can list for a long time. Summarizing, we can say that this is a useful, affordable, tasty and versatile product.

By the way, Bulgarians believe that the famous European cheeses with mold originate precisely from the Balkan siren. Just because of the cooler climate in Europe, they put less salt in these cheeses and therefore noble mold began to develop there.

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