Emmental

Emmental is a firm cheese made with milk, table salt, fermentation starter, and rennet. Cooks use it as a dairy ingredient.

Dairy
Allergen: milk

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Dairy & eggs
Texture: Firm
Cooked most in: The Americas
Top country: United States
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: Coyau · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use Emmental

Made from

milk
table salt
fermentation starter
rennet

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

Firm

On the table

Dishes made with Emmental

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Monte Cristo sandwich
United States

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include Emmental.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: Emmental in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: Contains: milk
Animal origin: From: dairy

Family

Related forms

A kind of: cheese

Around the world

What Emmental is called

Names in 56 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
queso emmental · Emmentaler
French
emmental · emmenthal · emmentaler
Italian
emmental · emmentaler · formaggio emmental · emmenthal
Portuguese
Emmental
German
Emmentaler
Dutch
Emmental · Emmentaler
Greek
Έμενταλ
Turkish
Emmental peyniri
Russian
эмменталь · Эмменталер
Polish
Ementaler
Arabic
إمنتال
Persian
پنیر امنتال

Show all 56 languages

Afrikaans
Emmentaler
Aragonese
Emmental
Armenian
Էմենտալ
Basque
Emmental
Bosnian
Ementaler
Brazilian Portuguese
Emmentaler
Breton
Emmental
Bulgarian
Ементал
Cantonese
艾文塔勒芝士
Catalan
emmental
Chinese
埃文達芝士 · 艾門塔爾乾酪 · 埃美達芝士
Croatian
Ementaler
Czech
Ementál · ementálský sýr
Danish
emmentaler
Egyptian Arabic
جبنه امنتال Emmental Cheese · Emmental Cheese
Esperanto
Emental · Emmental · Emmentaler
Estonian
Emmental
Finnish
Emmental · emmentaljuusto · tahkojuusto
Galician
Emmental
Georgian
ემენტალი
Hebrew
אמנטל
Hungarian
Ementáli
Indonesian
Keju Emmental
Japanese
エメンタールチーズ · エメンタール
Javanese
Kèju Emmental
Korean
에멘탈 치즈
Latin
Emmentaler
Latvian
Ementāles siers
Lithuanian
Ementalio sūris
Low Saxon
Emmentaler
Macedonian
Ементалер
Malay
Keju Emmental
Norwegian Bokmål
Emmentaler · sveitserost
Romanian
Emmental
Serbian
Ementaler
Slovak
Ementálsky syr
Slovenian
ementalski sir · ementalec
Swedish
Emmentaler
Swiss German
Ämmedaaler
Swiss High German
Emmentaler
Tamil
எம்மன்டல்
Thai
เนยแข็งเอ็มเมินทาล
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
艾曼塔乳酪
Ukrainian
Емменталь
Uzbek
Emmental
Vietnamese
Pho mát Emmental
Yiddish
עמענטאל

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q932214

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