String Cheese Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 lb Mozzarella curd
- Mahleb (Middle Eastern -spice)
- Black caraway seeds
- Salt
Directions:
- Place cheese in a Teflon saucepan and add a dash of mahleb and salt
- and a sprinkling of black seeds. Heat on low until cheese is melted
- thoroughly. Remove from heat and drain excess water.
- Pick up hot cheese in a lump, and make a hole in the center to
- resemble a doughnut.
- With both hands, stretch and turn the cheese to form a large loop.
- Double the strand of cheese, making two strands of cheese of even
- length. Repeat, stretching and looping; the more you stretch the
- stringier the cheese becomes. Repeat stretching several times. Twist
- ends in opposite directions and intertwine rope into a braid. Place
- one end through the loop of the other to lock it.
- Set cheese aside to dry thoroughly. Wrap in plastic wrap and
- refrigerate or freeze.
- To serve, open braid, cut one loop and pull cheese apart into thin
- strands. Serve with pocket bread.
- NOTE: Mahleb can be found at specialty food shops that sell Middle
- Eastern ingredients.