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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ricotta
noun
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▪ Add the raisins, spring onions, ricotta cheese, salt and pepper to taste and the cumin and dill.
▪ Another speciality is Naples Easter cake, a shortcrust pastry case filled with ricotta cheese, candied fruit and spices.
▪ Fresh ricotta cheese resembles cottage cheese but is smoother and sweeter.
▪ Place ricotta filling into prepared pastry and place lattice strips over top.
▪ Quarter figs, top them with some cinnamon-spiced ricotta and drizzle with clear honey.
▪ Regular ricotta or cottage cheese can be substituted if desired.
▪ There are black cherries bursting from under a white layer of ricotta cheese.
▪ This recipe for cannelloni is filled with a mixture of nonfat ricotta cheese, spinach and Parmesan cheese.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ricotta

kind of Italian cottage cheese, 1877, earlier ricoct (1580s), from Italian ricotta, literally "recooked," from fem. past participle of Latin recoquere, from re- "again" (see re-) + coquere "to cook" (see cook (n.)).

Wiktionary
ricotta

n. a soft Italian unsalted whey cheese resembling cottage cheese

WordNet
ricotta

n. soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese

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Ricotta

Ricotta ( in Italian) is an Italian whey cheese made from sheep, cow, goat, or Italian water buffalo milk whey left over from the production of cheese. Like other whey cheeses, it is made by coagulating the proteins that remain after the casein has been used to make cheese, notably albumin and globulin.

Ricotta (literally meaning "recooked") protein can be harvested if the whey is first allowed to become more acidic by additional fermentation (by letting it sit for 12–24 hours at room temperature). Then the acidified whey is heated to near boiling. The combination of low pH and high temperature denatures the protein and causes it to precipitate, forming a fine curd. Once cooled, it is separated by passing the liquid through a fine cloth, leaving the curd behind.

Ricotta curds are creamy white in appearance, and slightly sweet in taste. The fat content changes depending on the brand and the type of milk used. In this form, it is somewhat similar in texture to some cottage cheese variants, though considerably lighter. It is highly perishable. However, ricotta also is made in aged varieties which are preservable for much longer.

Usage examples of "ricotta".

In a separate bowl, beat ricotta vigorously with vanilla and orange extracts, cinnamon, and remaining 2 teaspoons maple syrup.

When peaches are done, scoop small mounds of ricotta into peach halves, distributing evenly.

For the layers, she mixes together soy hamburger crumbles, a good tomato sauce filled with mushrooms and finely chopped vegetables, low-fat mozzarella cheese, and non-fat ricotta cheese made even tastier by a good infusion of pesto.

From the convent she brings little pastries filled with ricotta mixed with sugar and fennel seeds, which are a great delicacy.

Hands move daintily from the crystal sugar bowl to the earthenware cups filled to the brim with milk, from peach jam to buttered rolls, from foaming coffee to sweet fritters filled with ricotta and candied pumpkin.

She spends hours and hours at the kitchen ranges, preparing baskets of strained ricotta, nucatelli, almond cakes, little ice-creams, morello cherries, lemonade flavoured with tarragon.

As a forkload hit his lips, a big, gooey blob of garlicky ricotta slid out of the pasta tube and splatted on the front of his white shirt.

What we would eat was that fucking pasta with ricotta night after night.

The snow is at once as soft and fat as ricotta cheese, yet more delicate in its patterns than the finest Burano lace!

Ladle the soup into large soup plates and float the ricotta toasts on top.

Inside was a wonderful array of chilled cannolis, plain and chocolate, anisette and almond, hard waffled cones filled with sweet ricotta, stacked on silver trays like little cords of firewood.

He sold pastries in the Italian Market, content, it seemed, to bake cannoli shells and mix the ricotta custard and sprinkle the filled shells with freshly ground cinnamon until he died.

They adjourned after dinner to the windowless living room for coffee and ricotta cake.

She looked at the three cartons of ricotta sitting on the counter, mocking her.

In the glass case were pots of creamy ricotta, stuffed artichokes, orbs of mozzarella in milk, bowls of shining olives and capers preserved in brine.