Meanings
- uncountableA brined string cheese popular in Armenia (especially in the Shirak region), Russia, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe.
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Mozzarella-like string cheese, also called husat or tel. It is a kneaded or pulled cheese, and the art of the cheese-maker is in stretching it thin so that it yields a “chicken-breast texture”. It's often sold braided in thick ropes. Curd is given a hot whey bath, then kneaded and stretched to the desirable, pliable consistency. In the West, chechil panir is often called Armenian or Syrian cheese. Armenian refugees, who settled in Syria after the tragic events of 1915, introduced it in that country.
2006, Irina Petrosian and David Underwood, Armenian Food: Fact, Fiction & Folklore, page 47
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