The secret of the most delicious Romanian cheese

Published 2024년 3월 31일

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Gulianka cheese, celebrated for its distinctive flavor derived from sheep grazing on saline soil in Gulianka village, Braila district, Romania, is considered the country's tastiest cheese. Produced from sheep's milk, efforts are underway to gain European recognition for this traditional product. Local sheep breeder Cristinel Sima, managing 700 animals, highlights the cheese's natural and healthy qualities. The region, home to approximately 24,000 sheep across 23,000 hectares of pastures, faces challenges such as the need for producers to form an association to meet certification requirements. Despite some resistance from local breeders, initiatives to establish a cooperative and a milk processing factory are in progress, aiming to preserve and promote Gulianka cheese's unique heritage.

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Gulianka cheese is well known to Romanians. It is produced from sheep's milk in Gulianka - a village in Braila district. The secret of its unique taste, which is why it is considered the tastiest in Romania, lies in the grass that the sheep graze on. It grows on saline soil rich in mineral salts, reports Adevărul. You can't sell cheese based on a 300-year-old recipe in the supermarket Cristinel Sima, one of the sheep breeders in Salca-Tudor Gulianka, an area 70 kilometers from Braila, takes care of 700 animals. He confirms that the cheese is special because of the quality of the grass and the salty soil. God blessed us with salty soil. Thanks to it, the grass has a special and spicy taste, which makes the cheese the best. It is natural and healthy, made only with milk produced by our sheep, fed on the best grass in the country, says the farmer. There are 23,000 hectares of pastures in the Gulianka region, and livestock breeders have about 24,000 sheep. The cheese of the same name ...

Source: Agri