Saganaki cheese
Greek and Turkish cuisine
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Saganaki cheese (Turkish: saganaki peyniri) is a Greek and Turkish cheese made of sheep's milk, cow's milk, goat's milk, or a combination, and used to prepare saganaki. Some saganaki cheese is similar to the basket cheese made in Aegean Turkey.[1]
| Saganaki cheese | |
|---|---|
Saganaki cooked | |
| Region | Turkey, Greece |
| Town | Aegean Region |
| Source of milk | Sheep, goat, cow milk |
It is sometimes flavored with thyme, walnut, mastic, red pepper, cinnamon, black seed, black pepper, or olive oil. It can be smoked.[2][3]
