Taste Atlas: Saganaki ranks number 1 in the world's best cheese dishes category

Saganaki has its place of honour, with Taste Atlas users highlighting it as the best cheese dish.

Taste Atlas recently updated its list of the best cheese dishes in the world, and saganaki took first place.

According to Taste Atlas users, saganaki is the best cheese dish in the world, with a rating of 4.6 out of 5.

Taste Atlas is recognised as a hugely popular experiential online food travel guide. It tends to curate dishes, drinks, beverages and flavours from around the world in many variations, while its users vote based on their preferences.

The website states: “Saganaki is a highly popular Greek appetizer where various vegetables, meats, or seafood such as shrimp or mussels are wrapped in cheese, then pan-fried or seared. The cheese can also be prepared on its own, without any accompaniments.

"It is then pan-seared until it develops its distinctive golden crust, and served in the so-called sagani, a small, two-handled pan in which it was fried.

"In the past, the word saganaki referred to a method of spicing up the local cheese by Greek peasants, who would pan-fry different varieties of cheese such as feta, kashkaval or manori.

"While regional variations of the dish include the use of formaela cheese in Arachova and halloumi in Cyprus, the cheese used in a typical Greek saganaki is usually graviera, kefalograviera, kasseri, kefalotyri, sheep's milk feta or any other firm cheese that melts well without losing its shape.

"Saganaki is sometimes enlivened by a splash of traditional Greek spirits like Metaxa brandy or Ouzo, an anise-flavored aperitif."

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