Ingredient Information

Cheese, Feta

Greek feta cheese is traditionally a goat’s milk or sheep’s milk cheese. Much of the mass marketed cheese available today is, however, cow’s milk cheese. True feta is a lovely rich crumbly cheese and is usually lower in fat than other cheeses, having about 6 grams per ounce.

Feta cheese is a “brined” cheese, meaning that it is cured in a salt water and is, as a result, very salty. An ounce of tangy feta cheese usually has over 300 mg of sodium per ounce (compared to a Swiss or cheddar with between 100 and 200 mg of sodium per ounce).

Like Parmigiano-Reggiano, however, there’s a lot of bang for your buck. Used carefully, feta cheese can really make a dish. And of course it wouldn’t be Greek Salad without feta cheese.

1 ounce feta cheese = 75 calories, 6g fat, 4g sat fat, 1g mono fat, 4g protein, 1g carbohydrates, 316mg sodium, 25mg cholesterol

Recipes Using Feta Cheese

Pizza with Roasted Eggplant and Feta
Garbanzo and Feta Salad
Spinach and Feta Frittata
Greek Salad
Spring Barley Salad
Roasted Beet and Fennel Salad