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Pecorino

Pecorino is a cheese made from sheep milk. It has a firm texture and is used as a dairy ingredient.

Category
Dairy & eggs
Made from
Sheep milk
Part used
Milk
Texture
Firm
Cooked most in
Europe, The Americas
Top country
Italy
Pecorino, cut

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

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Firm

On the table

Dishes made with pecorino

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.
  • Amatriciana sauce

    Italy

  • Carbonara

    Italy, United States

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

Family

Related forms

Made from
sheep milk
A kind of
cheese

Around the world

What pecorino is called

Names in 45 languages, from Wikidata.
  • Spanish

    Pecorino

  • French

    Pecorino

  • Italian

    pecorino

  • Portuguese

    Pecorino

  • German

    Pecorino

  • Dutch

    Pecorino

  • Greek

    Πεκορίνο

  • Russian

    Пекорино

  • Polish

    pecorino

  • Persian

    پکورینو

  • Hebrew

    פקורינו

  • Chinese

    義大利綿羊乾酪

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  • Afrikaans

    Pecorino

  • Armenian

    Պեկորինո

  • Asturian

    pecorino

  • Basque

    Pecorino

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    пэкарына

  • Bulgarian

    Пекорино

  • Catalan

    pecorino

  • Chuvash

    Пекорино

  • Czech

    Pecorino

  • Egyptian Arabic

    جبنه پيكورينو Pecorino Cheese

  • Esperanto

    Pecorino

  • Estonian

    Pecorino

  • Filipino

    Pecorino

  • Finnish

    Pecorino

  • Galician

    pecorino

  • Georgian

    პეკორინო

  • Hungarian

    pecorino

  • Ido

    Pekorino

  • Indonesian

    Pecorino

  • Japanese

    ペコリーノ

  • Javanese

    Pecorino

  • Korean

    페코리노

  • Latin

    Pecorinus

  • Latvian

    pekorīno

  • Luxembourgish

    Pecorino

  • Macedonian

    Пекорино

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Pecorino

  • Serbian

    Пекорино

  • Slovak

    Pecorino

  • Slovenian

    Pecorino

  • Swedish

    Pecorino

  • Thai

    เปโกรีโน

  • Ukrainian

    Пекоріно

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: Q677640

Photos

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