Gorgonzola

Gorgonzola is a firm blue cheese made from cultured milk. 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
Made from: Milk
Part used: Milk
Texture: Firm
Cooked most in: Europe
Top country: Italy
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

Photo: Ramagliolo9 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use Gorgonzola

Cooking with it

For risotto, melt it in at the end of cooking.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

Firm

On the table

Dishes made with Gorgonzola

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Pizza quattro formaggi
Italy

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: Gorgonzola 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: dairyChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, honey, insect, poultry, shellfish, other animal.
Caffeine: None

Family

Related forms

Made from: milk (cultured)
A kind of: blue cheese

Around the world

What Gorgonzola is called

Names in 56 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Gorgonzola · queso Gorgonzola
French
Gorgonzola · gorgonzola DOP
Italian
gorgonzola · formaggio Gorgonzola
Portuguese
Gorgonzola · queijo Gorgonzola
German
Gorgonzola
Dutch
Gorgonzola · Gorgonzola-kaas
Greek
Γκοργκοντζόλα
Turkish
Gorgonzola
Russian
Горгондзола · Горгонзола
Polish
Gorgonzola
Arabic
غرغنزولة · جبنة جورجونزولا · جبنة غورغونزولا
Persian
گورگونتزولا

Show all 56 languages

Afrikaans
Gorgonzola
Aragonese
Gorgonzola
Armenian
Գորգոնձոլա
Azerbaijani
Qorqonzola
Basque
Gorgonzola
Belarusian
Гаргандзола
Brazilian Portuguese
Gorgonzola
Bulgarian
Горгондзола
Cantonese
哥根蘇拿芝士
Catalan
gorgonzola · Formatge Gorgonzola
Chinese
古岡左拉芝士
Chuvash
Горгонзола
Croatian
Gorgonzola
Czech
Gorgonzola
Danish
Gorgonzola
Egyptian Arabic
جورجونزولا (جبنه)
eml
Gurgunzöla · Gurgunzola
Esperanto
Gorgonzolo
Estonian
Gorgonzola juust
Finnish
Gorgonzola · Gorgonzolajuusto
Galician
Gorgonzola · Queixo gorgonzola
Hebrew
גורגונזולה
Hungarian
gorgonzola
Indonesian
Gorgonzola
Interlingua
Gorgonzola
Japanese
ゴルゴンゾーラ · ゴルゴンゾーラチーズ
Javanese
Gorgonzola
Korean
고르곤졸라 · 고르곤촐라
Latin
Gorgonzola
Lombard
Gorgonzoeula · Gorgonzöla · Strachitù
Macedonian
Горгонѕола
Mingrelian
გორგონძოლა
Norwegian Bokmål
gorgonzola
Piedmontese
Bërgonsola
Romanian
Gorgonzola · brânză Gorgonzola
Serbian
горгонзола · Gorgonzola sir
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Горгонзола
Serbian (Latin)
Gorgonzola
Simplified Chinese
古冈左拉芝士
Simplified Chinese (China)
古冈左拉干酪
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
古冈左拉干酪
Sindhi
گارگونزولا
Slovak
Gorgonzola
Slovenian
gorgonzola
Swedish
Gorgonzola
Thai
กอร์กอนโซลา
Tibetan
གོར་གོན་ཟོ་ལ།
Traditional Chinese
古岡左拉芝士
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
古岡左拉芝士
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
古岡左拉起司
Ukrainian
Ґорґонцола
Urdu
گورگونزولا (پنیر)
Welsh
Gorgonzola

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: Q209044

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