Bocconcini
Soft, mild, 50 g bocconcini balls, ideal sliced on a salad, over a pizza or as an appetizer.
Bocconcini
Lightly brined and crafted into oval, bite-size pieces, Bocconcini cheese is made from fresh milk, ensuring a delightful and creamy texture. These small, versatile cheeses are easy to use and always fresh, making them a convenient addition to your culinary repertoire. Bocconcini pairs well with almost any dish, whether you're adding them to a vibrant salad, incorporating them into a pasta dish, or simply enjoying them as a snack. Their mild flavour and smooth texture enhance the taste of your meals without overpowering other ingredients. Enjoy the freshness and versatility of Bocconcini cheese in your favourite recipes.
Mini Bocconcini
Fresh, with a pleasant milk taste. The 25 g mini bocconcini are perfect for appetizers or snacks.
Cocktail Bocconcini
These 10.5 g morsels are soft, milky and mild and ready-to-use in your favourite cocktails and finger food.
Pearls Bocconcini
Truly tiny perfection of fresh mozzarella cheese, these 1.5 g pearls are soft and mild, and are a perfect garnish to your salads or pasta dishes.
Saputo Lite Cocktail Bocconcini
A lighter take on a favourite. These 10.5 g lite cocktail bocconcini morsels have the same flavour as the regular bocconcini with 30% less fat. Fresh, milky and ready to toss into your favourite salad.
FAQ
- Bocconcini are soft, fresh cheese balls known for their milky, creamy flavour and pleasantly springy firmness. Whether you’re using mini bocconcini, bocconcini pearls, or traditional bocconcini cheese balls, they add a smooth and tender bite to dishes like bocconcini salad, bocconcini pasta, bocconcini pizza, or classic tomato and bocconcini salad. Their fresh taste makes them perfect for bocconcini in salad, bocconcini recipes, and appetizers like bocconcini skewers or bocconcini cheese tomato skewers.
- Saputo does not recommend freezing any bocconcini cheese or other dairy products. While freezing bocconcini poses no food safety risk, it can significantly impact quality, including taste, texture, and performance in recipes. Freezing may alter the creamy structure of bocconcini balls, making them less suitable for dishes like bocconcini pasta recipes, bocconcini salad, or bocconcini pizza.
- No: comparing bocconcini with mozzarella reveals important differences. Although both cheeses offer a soft, creamy texture, they are not the same. Their composition, flavour, and production process differ.
Bocconcini are small, tender, milky cheese balls often used in bocconcini salad, tomato bocconcini salad, bocconcini tomato and basil appetizers, and fresh basil, tomato and bocconcini salad.
Mozzarella tends to be firmer and is more common on pizza or in melted dishes. - There are countless delicious bocconcini recipes and ways to enjoy this fresh cheese:
- Make bocconcini skewers, including the classic tomato and bocconcini skewers, bocconcini tomato basil skewers, or cocktail bocconcini appetizers
- Add them to salads: bocconcini salad, bocconcini cheese salad, bocconcini pasta salad, basil, tomato and bocconcini salad, or French-style salad bocconcini
- Combine with tomatoes for classics like tomato bocconcini salad, tomato and bocconcini, or tomatoes with bocconcini and basil
- Use bocconcini on pizza or make a fresh bocconcini sandwich
- Toss into pasta for bocconcini pasta recipes, or bocconcini pasta salad
- Try them marinated: make your own bocconcini marinade, enjoy marinated bocconcini, or use seasoned bocconcini marinated in appetizers
- Use them for elegant bites like bocconcini appetizers, bocconcini cocktails, or bocconcini cheese balls
