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Testouri

تستوري

firm salty sheep's-milk cheese, sliced and grilled or eaten with olives

Tunisia Cheese & dairy Vegetarian

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

Made in Testour, a town rebuilt by Andalusian Muslims expelled from Spain in the early seventeenth century, who brought their sheep-cheese making with them.

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What is Testouri?

Testouri is a cheese & dairy from Tunisia: firm salty sheep’s-milk cheese, sliced and grilled or eaten with olives. Made in Testour, a town rebuilt by Andalusian Muslims expelled from Spain in the early seventeenth century, who brought their sheep-cheese making with them.

Made with

cheesemilk

Cooked

cured

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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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