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Darfiyeh

Darfiyeh

Goat cheese aged inside a goatskin, dense and strongly flavoured.

Lebanon Cheese & dairy Vegetarian One for the adventurous

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

Made in the high villages above the Qadisha valley, the skin acting as both mould and ripening chamber.

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What is Darfiyeh?

Darfiyeh is a cheese & dairy from Lebanon: goat cheese aged inside a goatskin, dense and strongly flavoured. Made in the high villages above the Qadisha valley, the skin acting as both mould and ripening chamber.

Made with

cheesemilk

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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