Brined cheese, also sometimes referred to as pickled cheese for some varieties, is

cheese Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, ...

that is matured in

brine Brine is a high-concentration solution of salt (NaCl) in water (H2O). In diverse contexts, ''brine'' may refer to the salt solutions ranging from about 3.5% (a typical concentration of seawater, on the lower end of that of solutions used for br ...

in an airtight or semi-permeable container. This process gives the cheese good stability, inhibiting bacterial growth even in warmer climates. Brined cheeses may be soft or hard, varying in moisture content and in colour and flavour according to the type of milk used. However, all are rindless and generally taste clean, salty and acidic when fresh, developing some piquancy when aged; most are white. Brine is used in the production of other cheeses, notably washed-rind cheeses, but they are not considered brined cheeses as they are not matured in brine.

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Brined cheese is widely produced and eaten in the Middle East and Mediterranean areas. Brined cheeses include: * Akkawi (Levant) *

Balkánský sýr Balkánský sýr ( en, Balkan cheese) is a type of white brined cheese produced from cow's milk in Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is a salty semi-hard white cheese, analogous to Bulgarian sirene and Greek feta. It is usually not matured ( cs, nezr ...

(Czechia and Slovakis) *

Bryndza Bryndza (from Romanian ''brânză'' cheese) is a sheep milk cheese made across much of East-Central Europe, primarily in or around the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania and southern Poland. Bryndza cheese is creamy white in app ...

(Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia) * Chechil (Armenia) *

Cherni Vit Cherni Vit ( bg, Черни Вит, "Black Vit"") is a village in Teteven Municipality, Lovech Province, north central Bulgaria. The village is known for its local kind of green cheese Green cheese is a fresh cheese that has not thoroughly dried n ...

(Bulgaria) * Domiati (Egypt) * Feta (Greece) * Halloumi (Cyprus) * Hâlûmi (Egypt) * Lighvan (Iran) * Nablusi (Palestine) * Sirene (Bulgaria) *

Sulguni Sulguni ( ka, სულგუნი, სულუგუნი ''sulguni, suluguni''; sva, სჷლგინ, ლჷჯმარე ''selgin, lejmare''; xmf, სელეგინ ''selegin'') is a brined Georgian cheese from the Svaneti and S ...

(Georgia) * Telemea (Romania) * Beyaz (Turkey) *

Tzfat Safed (known in Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), is a city in the Northern District of Israel. Located at an elevat ...

(Israel)

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