What is Paneer and Cacik?
What is
Paneer, a kind of cheese, a South Asian cuisine, is an unaged cheese made by churning milk with vinegar, lemon juice or other acids.
- 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.
Aroma
Fresh, Milky
Fresh, Sour smell
Origin
Afghanistan, India, Iran, South asian countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Tajikistan
Turkey