Sliced Provolone Cheese

Provolone Cheese is an age-old Italian creation that brings a mildly creamy flavor to plenty of dishes. Trader Joe’s Sliced Provolone Cheese makes this exemplar cheese variety available in a pre-sliced form ready to enjoy atop sandwiches, wraps, and other cold cut classics a plenty.

A cousin of mozzarella, Provolone Cheese is a cow’s milk, semi-hard formaggi a pasta filata (Italian for “spun paste cheese”). It undergoes kneading of the fresh curd in hot water to give that famously elastic, rubbery texture that Provolone Cheese is known for. This mass of curd created from the stretching process is then aged to harden, and therefore differentiate, the Provolone from its mozzarella cousin. Like all pulled curd cheeses, a bit of Sliced Provolone Cheese is wonderful, and arguably more flavorful, when melted. This should direct your mind to the world of paninis, casseroles, baked pasta, and hoagies as a perfect pairing for our Sliced Provolone Cheese. Each slice was made for two slices of fresh bread, to be flashed in heat, and to evoke images of ooey gooey goodness.