This day and age often surprises us with many obligations, and we easily run out of time to make a fancy dinner or to spend a ton of time in the kitchen. With some suggestions and a little imagination, you can make a miracle with manchego cheese. You don’t have to be in Spain to make tapas, you have to be in your kitchen. Take some manchego (depending how many servings you want to have), and slice it nicely on a plate. Even better, serve this on a cutting board. When you’re done with cheese, take some tasty ham, and also slice it nicely. Arrange green olives around the cheese and ham, and some quince paste if you have. Serve with crusty bread and enjoy!
Manchego cheese is one of the most famous Spanish types of cheese, and can really be served in a million ways. If you’ve tried it, then you know that it tastes perfectly even if you eat it by itself, but if you have guests, serving only cheese may seem weird. Making manchego hot dogs will bring a nice mixture of Spain and the States to your place. Take a bun, put a sausage or a hot dog in it, add some rocket, and while the hot dog is hot, add some grated manchego.
People all over the world love pizza and deeply cherish and enjoy the cult. Some prefer making their own pizza dough, some prefer buying the dough which is ready made. So, take the pizza dough ( I always recommend you make it yourself), and cover it with tomato passata (you can also make instead of buying it), add sliced fresh tomatoes on it, add some herbs and sliced manchego on top, and you’ll have a lovely Spanish pizza.
There are three types of manchego, the fresh one (fresco), the medium one (curado), and the aged one, (viego). Manchego curado is like an encyclopedia of possible ways to serve it. Some are complicated, some aren’t, and one of the simple ones follows: Take some Granny Smith apples, wash them, peel them and slice them. Then take some manchego curado, chives, olive oil, smoked almonds and some apple cider vinegar, and mix it all up. You’ll have a lovely salad. Serve with red wine.
True cheese lovers will eat cheese with any meal and any part of the meal. More conservative people stick to the opinion that cheese is not to be used in desserts. However, manchego cheese will be a pleasant surprise for both the group which doubted it, and for those who believed in it. Take a piece of manchego and slice it nicely. Manchego is a rather strong cheese, so try to cut it finely. Put it on a plate, and add some figs, dates and quince paste.
If you want to make a perfect cheese platter, you need to know quite a lot about cheeses. Today literature about anything and everything is available on line, but if you want to serve manchego to your guests, of for yourself, you need to know to pair it with the right wine. Wines which are best served with manchego are wines with a body such as Rioja Tempranillo, which will go excellent with strong manchego. Jerez cherry is also a great companion, as is Manzanilla, for people who like tastes which aren’t ordinary.
Well, for people who ever wondered about Manchego Cheese, here’s brief location info.