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Bieno sirenje

beaten sheep cheese from Mariovo, dense and salty

North Macedonia Cheese & dairy Vegetarian

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Made in the Mariovo highlands by beating the curd by hand before pressing it into tins, a speciality of the southern mountains.

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What is Bieno sirenje?

Bieno sirenje is a cheese & dairy from North Macedonia: beaten sheep cheese from Mariovo, dense and salty. Made in the Mariovo highlands by beating the curd by hand before pressing it into tins, a speciality of the southern mountains.

Made with

milkcheese

Cooked

fermented

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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