Cooking with Nonna Cheese Grater

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Take a look at this Cooking with Nonna Cheese Grater. This cheese grater is just one type of cheese grater you will find in the kitchen. This cheese grater is a beautiful original cheese grater that you will trouble finding. It has been used by this Italian Nonna for over 40 years and will be passed on to her granddaughter one day. This is an excellent cheese grater that can be used for all sorts of recipes that require grated cheese in them. When it comes to grating cheese for recipes, there are all sorts of cheese graters that you will find. Each cheese grater is a bit different, and it comes down to being a personal preference as to the type of cheese grater a person uses.

Most people are familiar with the box grater type of cheese grater. Usually, these box graters have a handle on top, and they are great for recipes using mozzarella cheese. The Nonna cheese grater is also known as a knuckle bleeder, as you need to watch your hand when the cheese gets down to the last bits as you might end up with a wound. Box grater cheese graters are good for shredding soft cheeses and harder foods such as potatoes for hash brown recipes. You want to use the side with the large holes for the soft cheese and potatoes. The medium-size holes on the box grater make smaller shreds of hard foods. The single horizontal sharp edge of this grater is for shaving thin slices of hard foods, such as carrots, it's also great if you're slicing just one, but for a dozen, you might consider a mandoline. Another type of cheese grater is the handheld grater or rasp grater. These hand held rasp graters are good for shredding cheese directly into a bowl or pot. With only a single hole size, these cheese graters work well for recipes that need small quantities of hard cheese or other foods, such as baking chocolate and coconut for recipes. Another type of cheese grater is the rotary graters. This type of grater is good for a light dusting of Parmesan cheese over a rigatoni recipe or bittersweet chocolate shavings over cappuccino. To use you want to pass the grater around the table so you don't have to worry about people touching the block of cheese.

Whatever type of cheese you use in your recipe there is a lot of cheese nutrition that is added to your day. Typically a 100 gram serving of cheese has most of your calcium needed for the day, along with a good serving of protein and some Vitamin A. The nutritional content of mozzarella cheese and cheddar cheese nutritional info varies for each type of cheese, but still have good amounts of calcium and protein.

Thank you to Rosella at the "Cooking With Nonna" site for sharing this Italian cheese grater. On this Italian recipe site, you will find traditional authentic Italian recipes that have been passed down through generations of Italian grandmothers and Nonna's from all the regions of Italy. Rossella is the host of the all-new online cooking show and food webisode series, Cooking with Nonna. Rossella was born into a family of food lovers and culinary aficionado. While she was growing up, there was always something on the stove. Rossella is a first generation Italian-American from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Some of the Italian recipes you will find on the recipe site include three-cheese pasta recipe, arborio rice recipe, Arrabbiata sauce recipe, avocado pesto recipe, baked rigatoni recipe, and more. You will also find a baked rotini recipe, broccoli and shells recipe, butternut squash ravioli recipe, butternut squash risotto recipe, and more.

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