Bocconcini is one of the few cheeses that masterfully play a supporting role to other flavors. It's especially popular accompanied by fresh vegetables.
This cheese is perfectly described by its Italian name: "small mouthfulls". It's mild and refreshing, with a smooth resilient texture, about the size, shape and colour of a hardboiled egg. It's delicious. Part of the semi-soft cheese category, Bocconcini should be a white and rindless unripened cheese with a firm elastic body, packed in light brine which stops further ripening.
Good alternatives to Bocconcini for your recipes include any of the stretched curd pasta filata cheeses such as Scamorza, Mozzarella, Fior di Latte, Cacciotta, or Trecce, a larger cheese woven into a braid and the most similar to Bocconcini
