This may sound like madness but while making a cheese and pickled onion sandwich I dropped a small piece of cheese into the vinegar and a thought popped up.

Can you pickle cheese?

I know you can get feta cheese cubes in oil and lemon juice (with oregano, pepper, salt etc for greek style salads) but wondered if just being in vinegar would turn it to mush or not ?

Steve

Hi Steve,

I have once eaten pickled cheese. It was nice, as far as I remember. Just looked on googel for a recipe and I found one with white wine vinegar: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pickled-Cheese/Detail.aspx . Don?t know if this works.

Catrin

What a great idea Steve! You get pickled tofu in chilli etc., why not paneer or other cheeses? I am going to start trying tonight and request you all to do the same. let's see what we come up with. I can't wait! It might be something similar to Paneer Aachari in taste or simply paneer in vinegar, salt and chilli, with a little bit of olive oil thrown in!

Oh my oh my I've started something now!

The combinations of the pickle jar are whizzing around my head now!

Things that might work pickled together -

cheese and onions -

cheese and chili -

cheese and beetroot (turning the cheese pink?) -

cheese and red cabbage (again changing the color) -

what about adding different herbs to just pickled cheese to give it a boost...

cheese and basil !! (wonder if the basil would go funny)

pickled smoked cheese.....

need some more vinegar... must try some of these...

Steve