Casizolu - Giampaolo Piu - Best Sardinian food
The name Casizolu, characteristic of the ancient logudorese, comes from the Latin caseolzu, which defines a small cheese vaccine. In other regions Sardinia it is also called taedda or piredda.
Casizolu - Giampaolo Piu - Sardinian cheese
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The Casizolu is a great product, first of all for the wonderful raw material: Sardo-modicane or brown-modicane's mild, country cows bred throughout the year in the wild. The Presidium producers were gathered in the Association of Casizolu Producers of Oristano and have a procedure guideline that ensures the entire supply chain.
If the Casizolu is the most valuable product, you can also enjoy the trizza (a braid made with the same paste as the Casizolu and decorated with flowers, leaves and fruits, which should be eaten fresh) and the fresa (an oval and creamy soft cheese, only made in fall, preferably with rich milk fat of pregnant cows).
We are in the Montiferru, a corner of Sardinia, where it is produced - a rare exception in this land of sheep and pecorino cheese - an ancient and valuable cow cheese made of spun paste: Casizolu.
The women were traditionally working fresh milk and kneading the curd in boiling water to model the typical pear-shaped pot-bellied. A long hard work of patience, which ruined the hands and forced them to wake up early: after adding the rennet and prepared the curd's break, they had to wait until the exact point of lactic fermentation, which can be in the evening, night or dawn.
At this point you can proceed with the spinning of the curd, heating curd pieces in hot water to spin the dough and then shaping it in cold water. After the dough is spinned, the white water of serum does not get throwed: s'abbagasu is a tasty broth for soups scented cheese. When it is well modeled (the skin should be smooth, shiny, unwrinkled) Casizolu has to be followed like a baby: first is nestled on a towel (or in a bowl of bran) for not ruin the shape; after two or three days it gets hanged up by the ceiling, and finally settles down in the cellar.
The dough of Casizolu tends to pastry with aging, and obtains a pale yellow and slightly yellow look. At the nose, when the shape is well aged, it combines feelings of green grass and buttermilk with a hint of wood and leaf. In the mouth the notes come back with a good length and an almond ending taste.
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