Raw Pecorino

Generali

In my local supermarket (Pemmuwuy in Sydney, NSW) I found a product called 'raw pecorino'. It looks like unmatured pecorino to me - it's about the same colour as whole milk and has a springy feel to it (inside a vac-pac anyhow).

I'm used to pecorino being very mature like parmesan.

Anyone know what to do with it or if it's nice?

Gingernutmeg

I wonder if the raw is referring to the milk used - in that it's unpasteurised?

The only thing I can think of that's similar is Pecorino Toscano, which is a young pecorino that's aged for about six months. It's much softer and milder than traditional pecorino, and is more lactic and tangy and less salty. It's very nice, and good on salads or anywhere you'd use a softer sheep's cheese. Nice with fruit too, and nuts and honey.

thriftlady_2

I think real pecorino is always raw -ie made with raw (unpastuerised milk);)

Generali

Gingernutmeg wrote: »

I wonder if the raw is referring to the milk used - in that it's unpasteurised?

The only thing I can think of that's similar is Pecorino Toscano, which is a young pecorino that's aged for about six months. It's much softer and milder than traditional pecorino, and is more lactic and tangy and less salty. It's very nice, and good on salads or anywhere you'd use a softer sheep's cheese. Nice with fruit too, and nuts and honey.

Well I'm in Aus and they still have that habit (mostly abandoned in the UK) of Anglicising words and phrases.

I wonder if it's another sort of sheep's milk cheese? It doesn't have a rind that I can see although I suppose that could have been cut off.

kunekune

Can you buy cheese made with unpasteurised milk in Australia? It's not permitted in New Zealand.

Gingernutmeg

Just had a look in Larousse and pecorino is a cooked cheese, so maybe this is made in the same area with the same milk, but isn't cooked? That'd make it softer and softer, but with similar flavours.

meanmarie

Sounds like pecorino giovane (or young) to me which is, as Gingernutmeg said, very nice but not really like a mature pecorino. I would think that it is made in Australia, as I know that the laws there as very stringent about imported cheeses...the price should be a fair indicator as imported cheeses tend to be very expensive...try it if you like cheese

Marie