Our regular Cheesemonger is off today, so I thought I'd give you a peek at a cheese shop in Emmental, Switzerland, that made me weak in the knees. It wasn't the cheese, though, that made me buckle; it was the yogurt. Take a look at these flavors.
On our way back from the mountains we stopped at this dairy and cheese shop to pick up cheese for fondue. This dairy collective is a certified producer of Emmental cheese, but they also had cheeses from all over the region, and lots of homemade yogurt and ice cream too. I couldn't help but gape at all the pots of fresh yogurt lined up in the cooler. The flavors — they went so far beyond the strawberry and vanilla of my own supermarket back home!
I bought a small pot of hazelnut yogurt — it was definitely hard to pick among the cherry, chestnut, and chocolate flavors, but this won. I also spotted caramel and banana yogurts; I really wanted to try every one of them.
I had it on the day I left Switzerland, for breakfast, and it was a beautiful yogurt — not sweet at all, thin and creamy, and full of fresh hazelnuts ground fine. It was delicious, and I may try to recreate it here with hazelnuts and good yogurt.
Related: True Swiss Fondue: A Taste of Switzerland
(Images: Faith Durand)
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Comments (8)
Faith - love the posts on Swiss deliciousness! Swiss fondue is admittedly cliche but real Swiss fondue is delicious! As well as real Gruyere Swiss cheese. I can't believe you waited until your last day to try the yogurt, it is one of my favorite things in Switzerland! The cheesemonger in Nyon makes some killer hazelnut, caramel, lemon, and banana yogurt. Mmmm!
Is this yogurt considered "skyr"? I heard about skyr on last week's Good Food with Evan Kleinman podcast and I've been dying to make it! I really love the idea of a nut-flavored yogurt.
Migros has seasonal flavours which are quite lovely -- rhubarb, sambucca, red currant, maple, apple strudel, pear, mirabel plums, grapes...
Kiwi, prune, hazelnut, raspberry, cherry, lychee, fig are all available year-round.
My favourite yogurt is actually a French brand called "Mamie Nova", which used to have a "fruits confits", and currently have griotte cherries, peches de Rousillon (the best peaches, a specialty of Provence), pommes d'amour, Giandija, coconut, white chocolate, cappucino, almond, speculos...
Jeez, I wish we had these back home!
sweettooth101, yeah we were there just a couple of days -- I pretty much went to heaven over the yogurt. It was so good!!
Hazelnut yogurt is the most original. Our cheesemonger makes them himself. They make a healthy snack, because he adds very little sugar. I eat several every week!
This has me thinking about experimenting with my homemade yogurt..adding some hazelnut extract perhaps. Has anyone tried this?
The only thing I've added in the past were some fresh blueberries at the bottom..which turned out well.
Skyr is different. It is strained nonfat yogurt, more similar to Greek yogurt. The brand sold at Whole Foods, near us anyway, has unusual flavors but I can't say I really liked it. But I don't like any nonfat dairy products...
When I was living in the UK Tesco had a hazelnut yoghurt- not gourmet but still delicious!