Balkan Farms Sar Planina Bieno Beaten Cheese (Variable Weight)

Balkan Farms Sar Planina Bieno Beaten Cheese is a Macedonian traditional mountain beaten cheese in variable weight — a specialty Macedonian dairy product in the bieno sirenje (beaten cheese) tradition, where young cheese is hand-whipped and matured into a soft, spreadable, intensely tangy and salty speciality that represents one of the most distinctive and regionally specific cheese traditions in the entire Balkan dairy world, from Balkan Farms, the American specialty importer of authentic Balkan dairy products. Balkan Farms is an American specialty importer of Macedonian and Serbian dairy products, bringing traditionally produced Balkan cheeses to the diaspora market — their bieno sirenje belongs to the Sar Planina mountain dairy tradition of the borderland region between Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia, where centuries of sheep-dairy farming produced some of the most distinctive regional cheeses in the Balkans. Bieno (beaten) sirenje is one of the most unique and regionally specific cheese preparations in the Balkan dairy tradition — traditional bieno sirenje from the Sar Planina region is made by beating and kneading young white brined cheese with salt and sometimes spices until it reaches a creamy, spreadable consistency and a concentrated, intensely flavoured character that is unlike any other cheese in the world. Spread thickly on warm somun flatbread as the traditional Macedonian and Kosovar breakfast or afternoon snack, serve as a mezze item alongside pickles and fresh vegetables, or use as a flavourful filling in pastry and burek preparations where an intensely tangy, spreadable cheese is called for.