I
am a cooking enthusiast and as that I keep on trying recipes we see
on TV channels and many other sources. For some last few months I
have been preparing different dishes involving use of Cheese of many
types. Particularly these days we are talking a lot about different
varieties of Pizzas; and as my readers know well that cheese is one
ingredient in all recipes of Pizzas. I saw pictures of Domino Pizzas
and in those they show how the sticky line of Cheese that is formed
when one eats them. I was particularly fascinated by that and decided
to make one Pizza using cheese specially recommended for that use.
That cheese is called mozzarella cheese. And so, I went to Sahakar
Bazar in Chembur and purchased one pack of Amul processed mozzarella
Cheese. Before that I had tried other makes of similar cheese from
Mother Diary, Britannia and Go. My experience with all these makers
of cheese is similar.
Mozzarella
Cheese is supposed to have the quality of stretching when pulled.
This unique quality makes it most suitable for making quality Pizza.
When my Pizza was ready I found that all the mozzarella (so called)
cheese from Amul had become like a cooked biscuit. Hard and even
difficult to chew. Same I found with other varieties of so called
mozzarella cheese from other makes those I have mentioned here. I was
wondering why this happens. One more interesting thing I noticed with
Amul mozzarella cheese that when I removed it from its plastic pack
and put it is a plastic box so that I can put it in my deep freeze. I
was surprised to see that some water was oozing out of it. When I
tasted it, it was brine, common salt solution in water. To my
experience so far no cheese gives out water in this way. It the
nature of Paneer and not Cheese to give out water in this way.
I
have been using cheese for making other preparations and in that I
use other varieties of cheese from the same makers. One friend of
mine from USA told me that Indian Cheese is no cheese at all. She
told me that Indian cheese is just processed paneer by adding some
powder called cheese powder. And that makes the paneer appear and
test like real cheese. On that information I went to our popular
Crawford Market in SoBo and purchased that powder and could make
cheese like material from ordinary paneer that can easily pass as
Cheese. That means we do not have real cheese in India. When I
inquired about how domino and other pizza makers in India make Pizza
that gives out stretchable cheese I was told that they use imported
Cheese! Our cheese makers are actually cheating us, what a shame! I
request all these makers of counterfeit cheese that they must put the
real name of what they make by writing on the pack that it is "Paneer
Cheese", and not just Cheese. Food department should take a note
of this and do the needful so that people are not fooled like this by
these makers of cheese.
Can
anybody help me in getting the true variety of mozzarella cheese made
in India?
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