The product

Pecorino Primosale al Peperoncino

Young pecorino cheese with chilli flakes
Code:
31707
Country of origin:
Italy - Sicily
Type of Milk:
 Sheep's milk
Weight:
2,5 kg approx
Minimum order:
1/4
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Description Sicilian pasteurised sheep's milk pecorino, young and flavoured with chilli flakes
Appearance The paste is elastic and may have small eyes as well as an evident presence of chilli; the paste is a pale straw-yellow colour
Taste The flavour is sweet and persistent, with no animal notes or excesses of savouriness; the aroma of chilli pepper is evident but not at all intrusive
Maturing At least 3 - 5 days from packaging
Curiosity The company was founded by the Messina family in 2000 with the aim of promoting cheese made with Sicilian sheep's milk (initially they only processed organic milk) and has gradually grown to become the modern, well-organised structure it is today. Every day, they collect around 200 quintals of milk in three provinces within a 65 km radius of the dairy using three vehicles. They visit around 80 farmers located in mountainous areas that are not always easy to reach. These are small farmers with flocks of up to 200 animals each, which means that collection rounds sometimes take the whole day.
Our selection Sicily is one of the homelands of Pecorino cheese in Italy, and we travelled there to meet a new sheep's milk cheese producer. The Biopek dairy is located in the Trapani hinterland and is run by brothers Pietro and Andrea Messina. It is a genuine story that has its roots in a small artisan workshop that has evolved over the years. Today, Biopek selects and collaborates with the best farms in the area to transform high-quality milk into cheese every day.
Suggestions Excellent as a table cheese, but also great in cooking: try it melted in sandwich fillings or to enrich meatloaf or grilled vegetable
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Ingredients Pasteurized sheep's MILK, chilli 0,5%, salt, rennet
Allergens in ingredients Milk and products thereof
May contain traces of: Nuts and products thereof
Weight 2,5 kg approx
Packaging Vacuum packed
Storage Conditions (packaged products) Keep refrigerated below +4°C
Country of origin of the primary ingredient Italy
Nutrition Declaration Energy: 1693 kJ / 407 kcal
Fat: 31 g
of which saturates: 20 g
Carbohydrate: 3 g
of which sugars: 0,6 g
Protein: 29 g
Salt: 1,9 g
Typical value per 100 g
The producer

Biopek - Gibellina (TP) - Sicily

Why we chose them
Caseificio Biopek is located in Gibellina Nuova in the hinterland of Trapani, Sicily, one of the homelands of sheep's milk cheese: the company exclusively processes Sicilian sheep's milk. Biopek tells the story of the Messina family, a genuine story that has its roots in a small workshop run by Giuseppe Messina where sheep's milk cheeses purchased from local producers were matured and packaged. In 2000, his sons Pietro and Andrea joined the company, and the new production plant was built, further expanded in 2019. Every day, three proprietary vehicles collect 200 quintals of milk between the provinces of Trapani, Palermo and Agrigento in a radius of about 70 km from the dairy. The deliverers are 80 small farmers located in mountainous and inaccessible areas, who raise flocks of up to 200 sheep. Given the rural nature of so many breeders, the milk collected is pasteurised and cleaned by centrifugation and then processed in two multi-purpose vats to make a wide range of pecorino cheeses: from primo sale to ricotta, from "canestrati" to refined. All cheeses are salted in brine, in a room adjacent to the cheese factory, for different periods of time depending on the cheese size. Then, the maturing process takes place in different cells for the primo sale cheeses, which become ready in about ten days, and in a cell in the historical part of the dairy for the semi-mature and mature cheeses. The latter fully express the Sicilian identity of the sheep's milk cheese, so much so that the brand name designed for these references is I Siciliani'
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