Semi-soft cheese
Fontina Valdostana
Quick answer
Fontina is a semi-soft Alpine cheese from the Aosta Valley, prized for melting.
Real Fontina DOP is made from the milk of a single milking of Valdostana cows.
How to use it: fonduta, polenta, gratins.
- Type
- Semi-soft cheese
- Origin
- Aosta Valley (DOP)
- Milk
- Raw cow's milk
- Best uses
- fonduta, polenta, gratins.
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