List of Spanish cheeses

Queso Manchego
Cheese sometimes accompanies other foods such as ham and other cold cuts.

A wide variety of cheeses are made throughout the country of Spain.

Some of the Spanish cheeses are internationally renowned, such as the Manchego cheese of La Mancha. Some regions are better known for their cheeses than others; 26 cheeses are classified as Protected Designation of Origin (D.O.P.—Denominación de Origen Protegida) by Spain and the European Union. Many of the cheeses are manufactured from single types of milk (cow, goat or sheep), but a few are mixtures of different milks, and the milk may be raw, pasteurised or creamy. The cheeses are made in a wide variety of styles including fresh, cured, semi-cured and pressed paste, and some are inoculated with mould to make blue varieties. There is a huge variation in the presentation of cheeses, from the hard, dark-skinned, two-kilo Manchego to the soft, small quesitos.

A list of Spanish cheeses follows, grouped by an alphabetical ordering of geographic regions.[1]

Andalucía

  • Queso de las Alpujarras (P.D.O.)[2]
  • Queso de los Pedroches[3] from raw sheep milk, mostly merino of Sierra de Cazorla, goat milk, cow milk and mixtures of all three
  • Queso de Cabra Payoya[4] of Grazalema, in the Sierra de Cádiz
  • Quesitos de Zuheros, Córdoba
  • Queso de Fuente Palmera[5] Mainly goat milk with Quinkana brand and mixture milk (cow and goat) with brand "La Abuela Valle", near Cordoba, Sierra Morena and Guadalquivir Valley

Aragon

  • Queso de Tronchón, which was cited by Cervantes in Don Quixote, and made with sheep milk or mixed with goat milk
  • Queso Echo y Ansó
  • Queso de Biescas
  • Queso Patamulo
  • Queso de Radiquero
  • Queso de Benabarre
  • Queso Pañoleta
  • Queso de Sahún
  • Queso de El Burgo
  • Queso Chistabín

Asturias

Queso de Cabrales

Balearic Islands

Formatge de Maó

Basque Country

Canary Islands

Cantabria

Castile–La Mancha

Castile and León

Queso zamorano

Catalonia

Mató

Extremadura

Queso Ibores

Galicia

Queso de Tetilla

Murcia

Queso Idiazábal
  • Queso Idiazábal (P.D.O.)[16]
  • Queso Roncal (P.D.O.)[16]
  • Queso Urbasa, Menhaden sheep milk
  • Queso Ribaforada, goat milk
  • Queso Cabanillas, goat milk
  • Queso Lesaca, cow milk or a mixture with goat milk

Valencian Community

  • Queso blanquet
  • Queso de la Nucia
  • Queso de cazoleta
  • Queso de servilleta
  • Queso Tronchón

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Specialists in Cheeses from Spain -". Spanish Cheese.
  2. ↑ "Andalucia - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  3. ↑ Página de QUESOS LOS PEDROCHES - Feria del Queso y el Vino Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "El queso de Cabra Payoya". grupogastronomicogaditano.com.
  5. ↑ "Quesos Quinkana – Elaboración de quesos artesanales de cabra y mezcla. Una de las queserías más premiada de Andalucía". www.quinkana.es.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Asturias - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  7. 1 2 "Islas Baleares - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  8. ↑ "País Vasco - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  9. 1 2 3 "Islas Canarias - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  10. 1 2 3 "Cantabria - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  11. 1 2 "Castilla y León - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  12. ↑ "Cataluña - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  13. 1 2 3 "Extremadura - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  14. 1 2 3 "Galicia - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  15. 1 2 "Murcia - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
  16. 1 2 "Navarra - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
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