Homemade String Cheese

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb mozzarella curd
• mahleb (middle eastern spice, can be found at specialty food shops that sell middle eastern ingredients)
• black caraway seed
• salt

Recipe

• 1 place cheese in a teflon saucepan and add a dash of mahleb and salt and a sprinkling of black seeds.
• 2 heat on low until cheese is melted thoroughly.
• 3 remove from heat and drain water.
• 4 pick up hot cheese in a lump, and make a hole in the center to look like a doughnut.
• 5 stretch and turn the cheese to form a large loop.
• 6 double the strand of cheese, making two strands of cheese of even length.
• 7 repeat, stretching and looping; the more you stretch the stringier the cheese becomes.
• 8 repeat stretching several times.
• 9 twist ends in opposite directions and intertwine rope into a braid.
• 10 place one end through the loop of the other to lock it.
• 11 set cheese aside to dry thoroughly.
• 12 wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate or freeze.
• 13 to serve, open braid, cut one loop and pull cheese apart into thin strands.
• 14 serve with pocket bread.