What is Cacik and Tilsit Cheese?

Definition of Cacik and Tilsit Cheese

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• It is a dish of seasoned, strained or diluted yogurt, eaten throughout the former Ottoman countries.
• It is similar to tarator in Balkan cuisine.
• It is made of salted strained yogurt or diluted yogurt mixed with cucumbers, garlic, salt, olive oil, sometimes with vinegar or lemon juice, and some herbs like dill, mint, parsley, thyme etc.

While Tilsit Cheese is semi hard cheese, light yellow in texture, made from pasteurized or unpasteurized cow milk. Both these products are unique in their own ways. Cacik is a Not Available colored dairy product and Tilsit Cheese is Pale yellow colored. The food gets it color dependent on the ingredients used and the preparation methods employed. Sometimes artificial food colors are added to give the dairy product, a gourmet look. Apart from their color what distinguishes them is their flavor and aroma. Cacik bears Sour flavor with a Fresh and Sour smell aroma whereas Tilsit Cheese has Creamy, Mild, Piquant and Spicy flavor and a Strong aroma. The color, flavor and the aroma of these products depict their origin. Cacik originated in Turkey, whereas origin of Tilsit Cheese is traced back to Switzerland.