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feta

[ fet-uh ]

noun

  1. a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.


feta

/ ˈfɛtə /

noun

  1. a white sheep or goat cheese popular in Greece
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of feta1

1935–40; < Modern Greek, short for tyrì phéta, equivalent to tyrí cheese ( Greek tyrós ) + phéta slice < Italian fetta ( fettuccine )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of feta1

Modern Greek, from the phrase turi pheta , from turi cheese + pheta , from Italian fetta a slice
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Example Sentences

Crumble in some cotija or feta and eat it with flour tortillas for a simple lunch.

Divide across 6 bowls, garnish with the freshly sliced scallion, dill and the remaining feta cheese and serve.

Double dipping is so two years ago, but I found myself returning an ever-shorter baton to the accompanying whip of manchego and feta cheese.

Drizzle with the vinegar, sprinkle with the feta and parsley, and serve warm.

That’s the essence of this bright, crisp, farmers-market-inspired salad, which can launch a multitude of spring meals, topped with or served alongside just about any grilled or roasted protein, or a nice slab of feta.

Mozzarella, ricotta and burrata all come from the south of Italy; feta is from Greece.

Things get started later here: The Starbucks crush (i.e., when they run out of spinach-feta breakfast wraps) is around 11.

You can eat it with powdered sugar, but my favorite is with feta cheese and raspberry jam or fresh raspberries.

This watermelon, feta, and black olive salad recipe from Nigella Lawson reminds me of that.

Watermelon is also unbelievably good with a salty cheese like feta.

The great signal-tower of the citadel is a reconstruction of a pharo called Khalef-el-Feta, which stood here in 1068.

Feta is soft and as blinding white as a plate of fresh Ricotta smothered with sour cream.

This gray and greasy, hard and brittle palate-tickler of sheep's milk made us bleat for more Feta.

A more exciting olive cream may be made with Greek Calatma olives and Feta sheep cheese.

We then compared Feta with thin wisps of its grown-up brother, Casere.

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