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The other day, during a visit to the Swan Blue of which I'll talk soon, I try a cheese I had forgotten and I'm sure is unknown to many of you. Its origin canary in the hands of a dozen producers make their diffusion is reduced despite having produced 117,262 pieces during the past year reached 341,842 kilos made from almost two tons and average about 19,000 goats milk from 49 Majorera farms located throughout the island of Fuerteventura.
As I just mentioned is a cheese made one hundred percent goat's milk and Tender maturity classes (8 to 20 days), Semi (21 to 60 days) and cured (60 days). Their presentations can incorporate surface treatments with paprika or Gofio, cornmeal or wheat toast highly nutritious food typical of the islands.
It is a high creaminess cheese to be a hard cheese. Creaminess that is due to the qualities of the milk of the goat that produces milk Majorera of extremely dense, very aromatic and very fat. Furthermore Majoreras goats are recognized as one of the world's most productive species, reaching to provide two gallons of milk a day.
The development of this cheese and the knowledge of teachers goes back to pre-Hispanic period where Maxorata, word that derives Majorero, defined in aboriginal part of the territory of the Island of Fuerteventura. Possibly the greatest ambassador of Canarian cheeses and not in vain was the first cheese Canary Designation of Origin and the first goat cheese from Spain with Designation of Origin.
Its production area that responds to the PDO consists of the towns of Antigua, La Oliva, Betancuria, Puerto del Rosario, Pájara and Tuineje, which form the island of Fuerteventura, in the province of Las Palmas (Canary Islands). The island has a length of about 100 kilometers from north to south and an area of 1,659 square kilometers and is the closest island to the African continent.
If by chance you meet this cheese and you urge to taste it to natural and if you feel like you can accompany with dates is delicious. You can also do to the plate as the image and taste mild and slightly molten inside and also accompany with something sweet as applesauce.
Source - Council of the Designation of Origin Queso Majorero
