If you’ve ever appreciated the aroma from when a bowl of queso arrives at your table at your favorite Tex-Mex restaurant, then this cheese is for you. As part of Sweet Grass Dairies new Paradox Project, this cheese is the result of availability in our production schedule to experiment with some "southwestern" flavors.
Mild-to-medium heat, this cheese has an exotic nuance of garlic, toasted cumin, and smoky paprika, which has been balanced by savory hatch green chile and green onion.
Color: pale yellow paste, dotted throughout with red, orange, dark green, light green, and brown
Texture: semi-soft, slightly crumbly
Body: primarily closed paste, mixed with herbs and spices throughout
Aroma: smokey, sweet, and garlicky
Flavor: warm cumin and garlic spice, slightly smokey, with a long, slightly-spicy finish
Pasteurized grass-based cow's milk, spices (hatch green chile, ground cumin, ground serrano, green onion, garlic, smoked paprika), cultures,
Contains: milk
After dairying conventionally for 15 years, Al and Desiree Wehner switched their farming method to an intensive grazing management farming style in 1993. In less than a year, they knew that they had discovered a better way to farm where "cows could be cows" and do what nature intended - eat grass!
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