Dishes made with cow's milk
19 dishes from around the world that list cow's milk as a main ingredient.
Mozzarella
🇮🇹 ItalySemi-soft Italian cheese made by stretching and kneading curd
Cheese or dairy food
ParmesanVegetarianParmigiano Reggiano
🇮🇹 ItalyA hard, aged Italian cheese made from cow's milk in Emilia-Romagna
Cheese or dairy food
Jāņi cheeseVegetarianJāņu siers
🇱🇻 LatviaLatvian sour milk cheese with caraway seeds, made for the summer solstice
Cheese or dairy food
WagasiVegetarian
🇧🇯 Benin and 1 moreMild, soft cheese from cow's milk, made and eaten across northern Benin
Cheese or dairy food
BrieVegetarian
🇫🇷 France and 3 moreSoft French cheese with a white edible rind and creamy interior
Cheese or dairy food, Lunch, Dinner
HandkäseVegetarian
🇩🇪 GermanySmall sour milk cheese from Hesse, Germany, often served with onions and caraway
Cheese or dairy food, Snacks
Kaymak
🇹🇷 Turkey and 5 moreThick, creamy dairy spread made from slowly simmered milk
Sauce, pickle or ferment, Breakfast, Snacks
BurrataVegetarian
🇮🇹 ItalyA pouch of mozzarella filled with stracciatella and cream from southern Italy
Cheese or dairy food
Strained yogurt
🇬🇷 Greece and 5 moreYogurt thickened by straining out most of its whey
Sauce, pickle or ferment, Breakfast, Snacks
Bryndza
🇸🇰 Slovakia and 4 moreTangy, crumbly sheep cheese from Central and Eastern Europe
Cheese or dairy food
SkyrVegetarian
🇮🇸 Iceland and 3 moreIcelandic cultured dairy with a thick, mild taste, eaten like yogurt
Sauce, pickle or ferment, Breakfast, Snacks
Clotted creamVegetariandehen molys
🇬🇧 United KingdomA thick, rich cream formed by gently heating and cooling cow’s milk
Sauce, pickle or ferment, Tea time, Snacks
Tetilla cheeseVegetarianqueixo tetilla
🇪🇸 SpainSoft, conical cow’s milk cheese from Galicia in northwest Spain
Cheese or dairy food
Västerbotten cheeseVegetarianVästerbottensost
🇸🇪 SwedenFirm, tangy Swedish cow's milk cheese aged for at least a year
Cheese or dairy food
Shanklish
🇸🇾 Syria and 1 moreAged cheese balls from cow or sheep milk, often coated in herbs or spices
Cheese or dairy food, Breakfast, Snacks
MatóVegetarian
🇪🇸 Spain and 1 moreCatalan fresh cheese, usually served as a dessert with honey
Cheese or dairy food
ProvoletaVegetarian
🇦🇷 ArgentinaArgentine pulled-curd cheese grilled and served at barbecues
Cheese or dairy food, Dinner
Sorbetes
🇵🇭 PhilippinesPhilippine street ice cream made with coconut or carabao milk, sold from pushcarts
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
SitabhogVegetarianসীতাভোগ
🇮🇳 IndiaA sweet from Bardhaman that looks like rice or vermicelli with bits of Gulab jamun
Sweet or dessert
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Brie: Coyau, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wagasi: Noahalorwu, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Parmesan: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mozzarella: Popo le Chien, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Provoleta: Horacio Cambeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Handkäse: User:Elya + User:Fotandi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Burrata: Popo le Chien, CC0, source
- Jāņi cheese: Xil, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Skyr: Schnee ( talk ), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Clotted cream: Biggishben, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tetilla cheese: Tamorlan, CC BY 3.0, source
- Kaymak: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Strained yogurt: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Västerbotten cheese: Nata Uploaded by File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske), CC BY 2.0, source
- Bryndza: Kagor, GFDL, source
- Shanklish: Charles Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Mató: Eabayar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sorbetes: punctuated, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sitabhog: Billjones94, CC BY-SA 4.0, source