ALL ABOUT MOZZARELLA AND RICOTTA CHEESE AND FACTS ON LASAGNA AND RICOTTA CHEESE

 Let’s take up the fine subject of one of the finest cuisines in the world that is known to mankind - Italian cuisine. The pizza that you eat, the margherita that you love with extra cheese topping, the pasta that you like all flowy and saucy, the tiramisu and the panna cotta and the spaghetti with meatballs, there’s no stopping with the list of the fine Italian cuisine. Italians and Italiandishes make rich use of cream, cheese, sauces and milk in case you were set wondering what’s with the cheese obsession. There are quite a few varieties of cheese from the Italian offering – dolcelatte, ricotta, parmesan, mozzarella, cheddar, gouda, cotija and more. Some finest cheese from Italy comes from the Galbani’s and their Galbani ricottacheese and Galbani mozzarella cheese is definitely a must try. Galbani mozzarella cheese is used for preparing steaks.

There are numerous Italian dishes where there is liberal use of cheese such as a lasagna recipe. Lasagna is wide, flat-shaped pasta and is also known to be one of the oldest types of pasta known to man. It is a dish that’s made with several layers of lasagna sheets which are filled with sauces, cheese and other ingredients in between. The word lasagna in its singular form is one piece of pasta ribbon and in its plural form becomes lasagne.

Now as we get talking more about lasagna, we thought of jotting down some fun culinary facts about it. Let’s read on-

·         There’s a national day dedicated to lasagna! July 29^th is celebrated as National Lasagna Day.

·         You can make lasagna in a dishwasher.

·         Lasagna is the favourite food of the cartoon character Garfield.

·         The word lasagna originally referred to the pot in which the dish was cooked instead of the dish itself. Some people believed that the word was derived from the Greek word for ‘chamber pot’ (lasanon).

·         The original lasagna recipe did not make use of tomatoes as tomatoes were only discovered in the thirteenth century. At that time, there weren’t any tomatoes known in Europe.

·         There is an illness known as the lasagna syndrome which a term for excess overlapping of browser windows on the computer by a computer addict.

Coming to mozzarella cheese and Galbani ricotta cheese, one can attempt to make several dishes such as salami, sausages, prosciutto, cannelloni, bruschetta, caprese salad, pizza, pasta and more.

Grab some facts about ricotta cheese and head out to get some Galbani ricotta cheese for your Italian dishes-

·         Ricotta is soft, light and crumbly in its texture and has a very mild flavour particularly bent towards the sweet side.

·         Ricotta cheese is versatile in nature. It is used to prepare Italian delicacies such as lasagna, ravioli, pizza and cassata.

·         Ricotta cheese is also used as a spread and also for salads and desserts.

·         It is a healthy substitute for mayonnaise.

·         Ricotta is a highly perishable cheese.

·         Ricotta cheese is low in protein and gets absorbed quickly by the body.

·         It is used to prepare dishes such as stuffed ravioli, cheesecakes etc.