Helping Chefs Create Stand-Out Dishes With Our Outstanding Cheese Range

Aug 30 2024

The strength and quality of our Sodiaal cheese range celebrates the best cheese-producing areas in the world. The many French regions producing cheese are staying true to historic traditions but are also producing cheeses with huge variation and which can be adapted for use in a wide range of culinary ways.
Cheese is a food with many different qualities, but what is often overlooked is how versatile it is and how many variations there are. Of course you can eat cheese on its own off a cheeseboard, while it can also be used to complement many other foodstuffs, such as nuts, chutneys and fruits. But its use in many different recipes makes cheese a robust and influential ingredient for a wide variety of different dishes.

French cheese brings different intensities of taste and appearance

At Sodiaal we have spent lots of time working with different chefs to celebrate French cheese-making traditions, and also enhance a range of traditional French dishes. French cuisine is renowned throughout the world, and we wouldn’t expect the many high-quality chefs around France to use any old ingredients in their dishes. Which is why we take immense pride every time we develop a new dish to list amongst some of the delicious recipes containing our Sodiaal cheeses.

The versatility of cheese enables its qualities to be used in different ways when producing a new recipe. Cheese has different textures, consistency, taste and colour and these can all lend themselves to providing recipes with different intensities of flavour and appearance. Cheese can be grated, melted and whipped to complement, add a finishing touch or become a strong and central ingredient. And furthermore, cheese is so adaptable and flexible it can be used in both sweet and savoury dishes.

How our French cheeses influence different cuisines

Some of the dishes we have worked on with renowned chefs demonstrate the supreme qualities of our cheeses. These include:

Shortbreads, cookies and scones
Risottos
Ratatouille – such as the Bethmale Ratatouille
Croquettes
Desserts – such as the Coulommiers crème brulée
Sharing plates
Pasta dishes
Soups – such as the Onion Soup with Garlic Bread croutons and Beaufort
Snacks – such as the Whipped Brie, ham and honey baguettes

We understand the skill, delicacy and meticulous detail that goes into developing some of these dishes, but our own knowledge and expertise combines with some of the best chefs in the world, to bring dishes to the table which illustrate the best of French cuisine, but also demonstrate how French cheese can bring flavour, quality and artistry too.

And the overriding quality of French cheese means there are no limits and no end to the array of dishes and flavours our cheeses can contribute to. Keep checking back to our recipes page because we are always finding new ways to give a dish the wow factor, and whatever region of France is your favourite, rest assured we will be celebrating its history and tradition and showing each cheese in all its glory.