Goat Cheese Dip Recipe with Tomatoes and Herbs - The Cookie Rookie® (2024)

FAQs

Is the white cheese dip at Mexican restaurants goat cheese? ›

Many people think it contains goat cheese, but what you customarily find in restaurants is made from easy melt white american cheese, purchased thru suppliers or large supermarkets."

How Goat Cheese Is Made. Goat cheese is made using either pasteurized or raw goat's milk. After warming the milk to around 65 F, a starter culture is added to begin fermenting the milk, followed by rennet, which begins the coagulation of the milk proteins, i.e. forming curds, a process take takes a day or two.

“Chevre” means both “goat” and “goat cheese” in French and is frequently used to refer to fresh goat cheeses in particular. Fresh goat cheese, or chevre, is bright, tart, tangy, and delicious, but goat cheese comes in all shapes, sizes, and ages.

Note: Substitute the goat's curd with Greek natural yoghurt. Before mixing, place the yoghurt in a strainer over a bowl. Set aside in the fridge for an hour to drain, then follow recipe using the drained yoghurt.

The Mexican cheese dip I know about is queso fundido, which means simply melted cheese. Typically, chopped tomatoes, onions, and chiles are sautéed in a skillet, often with chorizo and sometimes with mushrooms or other vegetables.

Queso fresco

This soft white cheese is a fresh cheese made with cow's milk, goat milk, or a combination of the two. It is sold in small rectangular pieces similar in size to adobo bricks, which is why it is also known as adobera. Queso fresco comes from Jalisco, in the western part of Mexico.

Nutritional value: Goat cheese contains essential nutrients such as vitamins A, B and D, and minerals such as calcium and phosphorus. Compared to regular cheese, goat cheese typically has fewer calories and fats. This makes goat cheese a healthier option for those watching their calorie intake.

Goat cheese contains more minerals and vitamins than cow cheese. It is especially rich in Vitamin D and Vitamin K, while also containing the same amount of vitamin A as cow cheese. Goat cheese is also high in B vitamins like thiamine, niacin and riboflavin.

Most goat cheeses are considered vegetarian-friendly, however, some may contain animal rennet. Hard goat cheeses like feta, asiago, and cheddar are generally safe, but check the ingredients list to be sure. Soft varieties like chevre and Boursin may contain animal rennet so it's best to confirm before consuming.

Often called by its French name, Chèvre, meaning goat, this cheese type comes in many different flavors and textures - from crumbly to creamy, young to mature, mild to tangy.

What fruit goes best with goat cheese? ›

Fresh fruit

In summer, you might combine fresh goat cheese with slices of peach, apricot or nectarine, or even red berries (cherries or redcurrants). Once autumn arrives, choose apples, pears, figs or grapes as the perfect accompaniment to more aged cheeses.

No, Boursin cheese is Gournay cheese and Gournay cheese is cow's milk cheese. I get why you might have thought Boursin was goat cheese, though. It does look like a lot of soft chevre out there.

For those of you who don't know Goat Curd is the first stage of the cheese making process. Typically referred to as a spreadable fresh goat cheese. Our curd is lightly salted to produce a beautifully creamy cheese. No preservatives are added to it except salt so it has a shorter shelf life of three weeks.

Fromage Blanc Cheese

Its texture is like cream cheese, so it is a bit creamier in texture, but fromage blanc is close to goat cheese in taste. Fromage blanc is usually made from cow's milk, which gives it a mild but tart flavor.

White American cheese -- This is the kind of cheese used in the Mexican restaurants for white cheese dip believe it or not! I verified with the sources. Milk -- You can substitute with half and half or whipping cream for a thicker creamier dip, and/or add up to ½ cup of water to make it more runny.

Queso asadero is Mexican cheese that's great for melting. It is soft, white and creamy with a mild taste, and is often used to make pizzas, quesadillas and queso fundido. The last cheese on this list is actually a cream.

Goat Cheese's Signature Color

Fresh, unaged cheeses such as chèvre, or those made from other animal milks such as mozzarella and feta, often have a bright white appearance. As cheeses age and lose moisture content, cheeses made from cow or sheep's milk tend to take on a buttery, almost yellow hue.

In Mexico, it's usually made with raw cow's milk and occasionally with goat's milk too; versions produced in the United States start with pasteurized cow's milk.