Seia Butter Sheep Cheese / Seia Dryed Sheep Cheese,Portugal price supplier

This cured cheese is hand-made, & has a creamy, white or slightly yellow colour, with a uniform (without holes or just a few) texture obtained from the slow draining of curdled-milk, coagulated with cardoon thistle (Cynara Cadunculus). It has a soft, well formed rind, smooth and thin, with an uniform straw-yellow colour. Serra da Estrela cheese has a fat content of 45%.

Serra da Estrela cheese is so soft that it is almost spreadable. It has a rich, perfumed intensity as a result of the superb grazing (the long horn sheep feed on wild herbs), buttery, with a slightly sweet burnt toffee Flavour (a characteristic of ewe's milk).

Traditionally, a whole wheel of Serra da Estrela is shared with friends and family; the top rind is sliced off, and the cheese is scooped out and spread on bread with a spoon.