Provola delle Madonie - Tasty Trails

Provola delle Madonie , a Slow Food Presidium.

Made from the milk of a Brown cow, it has the characteristic shape of a flask strangled at the neck.

The stretching of the pasta is done by hand and with the help of a stick. Sweet and delicate flavour .

Format : 700/800 g

Madonie provola

In the heart of the Madonie regional park, one of the most evocative and biodiversity-rich areas of Sicily where the mountains and woods open up to the blue sea, for centuries a cheese has been produced which has become a Slow Food presidium in which only raw milk is used whole: Provola delle Madonie .

With its typical rounded flask shape and smooth, thin rind, Provola della Madonie has a sweet and delicate flavor and expresses hints that recall the green of pastures or freshly hayed grass.

Provola della Madonie is a stretched-curd cow's cheese that has the shape of a pot-bellied flask and a smooth, thin rind, straw-yellow in colour. As with other similarly named cheeses, the name "provola" seems to be associated with the "testing" of the acidified paste by the cheesemaker, who checks when it is ready for stretching. Today its recipe has remained almost unchanged and involves the adoption of only artisanal techniques. It has a sweet and delicate flavour, which acquires the scents of the area in which it is produced.

Here's how Provola delle Madonie is made:

To prepare Provola delle Madonie , raw, whole milk is heated to 37-38°C in the traditional wooden container. Paste sheep rennet is added. Once the desired density has been reached, the curd is broken into grains the size of a hazelnut and left to rest for a variable time, pouring hot water or whey. This mass is dried on a wooden table and cut into thin slices which are placed in the vat and moistened with water at 85°C. It is at this point that the pasta is stretched. It is handled with the hands and with the help of a stick. When it reaches good elasticity, small pears are formed which, tied two by two and hung astride a pole, mature for at least 10, 15 days in cool, ventilated environments.

Product Information:

• Milk from : Cow

• Heat treatment: Raw milk

• Production: All year round

• Family: Seasoned stretched pasta

• Shape: pot-bellied flask

• Weight (whole shape) : approximately 1 kg

• Territory: Madonie

• Region : Sicily

• Country : Italy

• Province : Palermo

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