Risotto with green peas and grated

„Džiugas Delicate” cheese, aged for 24 months

• 160 g of rice

• 6 pieces of ham

• 100 g of canned peas

• 1 onion (small)

• 80 g Džiugas „Delicate” cheese

• 200 ml of white dry wine

• 30 g of butter

• 50 ml of olive oil

• Parsley leaves

Cooking method:

Pour into a small pot 1.5 liter of water, put in 2 cherry tomatoes, ½ of onion and a stalk of celery. Add salt. Cook the vegetables for an hour. After the vegetable broth is cooked, prepare risotto. Pour some oil into a pot, put in the �inely diced onion and sliced ham, and then add rice. Fry for a little. Then, pour in the wine and evaporate the alcohol. Slowly pour in the vegetable broth and stir the rice all the time. When the broth is evaporated, pour in some broth again. Add peas and �inely chopped parsley leaves after 10 minutes of cooking. Continue cooking and stirring the ingredients for about 5 minutes. Rice should cook until al dente. After taking the pot off the heat, add butter and mix everything up. Then, add a half of grated Džiugas cheese and mix everything up again. Serve on the plates, sprinkle over the grated cheese and decorate with some canned peas.

Mashed pumpkin soup with grated „Džiugas Piquant” cheese, aged for 18 months

• 2 kg of yellow pumpkin

• 1 onion

• 10 sage leaves

• 40 g of roasted pumpkin seeds

• 200 g of grated „Džiugas Piquant” cheese

• 50 ml alyvuogių aliejaus

Cooking method:

Pour in 3 liters of water into the pot, add 4 cherry tomatoes, 1 onion and 2 stalks of celery. Add salt. Cook the vegetable broth for an hour. Peel off the pumpkin, cut the �lesh into 2 cm cubes. Cut the onion into feathers. Pour into the pot some oil, add in the chopped pumpkin, onion and fresh sage leaves (4-5 pcs) and fry. Then, pour the vegetable broth over the ingredients and stew with covered lid until the pumpkin becomes tender. Add some grated cheese and whisk with a mixer until a cream texture. Add salt. Serve on the plates by sprinkling the soup with roasted pumpkin seeds. Decorate with sage leaves.