Q: I received a BelGioioso Manteche cheese as part of a gift basket. Manteche is a mild provolone cheese shaped around a block of unsalted butter while the cheese is still warm. Over time, the provolone infuses the butter and thus becomes a deliciously decadent dairy product. The product website suggests that one pair the Manteche with fruit and crackers. A quick web search turned up little to no other information about how others use the cheese, which leads me to wonder if The Kitchn's ever-inventive staff and readers might be able to brainstorm some new uses. Thanks everyone!
Sent by Holly
Editor: Readers, suggestions for Holly? Have you tried Manteche cheese? What do you do with it?
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Wow.. Things described as "deliciously decadent" usually stand pretty well on their own. I say open a bottle of wine, bring out the fancy crackers and enjoy!
Wow, sounds delicious! But it looks like a hamster or something...
I second LSUGRAD03's suggestion, but if you're looking for more ideas, I bet it makes a mean grilled cheese.
I have never heard of that, but now must find some. I would use it to up my fruit intake.
I feel like a lot of really nice cheese just end up the worse for being put into other things, and don't need much to make them amazing. For me, cheeses like Manchego don't really add much to most dishes that average cheese wouldn't, but on their own are just incredible. For my money, just get some french bread or crackers and eat it plain.
Here is a hilarious poem I found on the very subject, here: http://chzmongrrrweeps.livejournal.com/2826.html:
Ode to Manteche
Oh Manteche
Beautiful, butter-filled ball
No one knows what to do with you
You don’t seem so complicated to me
I’ll scoop out your slab,
leave you open and waiting like a butternut squash
before the Moosewood hippies
fill you with raisins
and stick you in a communal oven
I will use your infused insides
For greasing my casserole,
savory bakings,
omelettes of stature.
Then I will carve your provolone shell,
eat you with apples,
grate you into my bubbling stew,
melt you on my polenta.
Oh Manteche,
people will talk.
Say, like Parrano, that you only pretend to be Italian.
Spread rumors that your name means "lard".
Declare you a heart attack encased in wax.
People will mock you
but it’s just because they are scared
Your dairy synergy is love to me.
In my family we refer to it as "butter cheese" and just eat it with fancy crackers and sometimes quince paste. Pretty tasty all by itself.
We call this type of cheese Burrini. Serve on a nice platter with a spreader for the butter and cheese knife for the cheese. The butter is to be spread on good artisan bread and eaten with slices of the cheese. We fight over that butter!
Wait, butter wrapped in cheese? Why have I not had this?
I will admit my initial reaction was that the description sounded like state fair food.
@decogirl - that poem was awesome. Great find!
That is amazing! I was considering sending this exact question a few weeks ago! I did as Robin Sue said and spread the butter on some homemade rolls and then ate a little hunk of the cheese with it. Yum!