Dairy Recipes

Dairy is used to good effect in a variety of recipes, both sweet and savory. Many classic dishes incorporate dairy in some way, either in a sauce or as one of the main ingredients. Ice cream, for example, generally incorporates dairy in a major way, as does macaroni and cheese, fettuccini alfredo, quiche, and many baked goods. Below you will find dishes that feature dairy in some way.

Quiche

Quiche is a baked dish incorporating eggs, milk, or cream and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables, or cheese, in a pastry crust. Quiche usually looks like a pie without a top crust, though it may have some form of decorative foodstuffs on the top of the quiche for embellishment. Quiche can be eaten at any time of the day, for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

One type of quiche that is very well known is quiche Lorraine, which is made with egg, cream custard, and smoked bacon or lardons. There are many varieties of quiche, from the well known quiche Lorraine to other kinds of quiche, made with a variety of vegetables, meats, and cheeses.

A recipe for quiche Lorraine can be found here, at the food network’s website, as can many more recipes for quiche, as well as a variety of other dishes, both dairy and nondairy.

Baked Goods

Many desserts and baked goods use dairy as an ingredient. For example, cheese cake generally incorporates cream cheese as an ingredient. Most cheese cake recipes include the following ingredients:

• cream cheese
•  sugar
• vanilla
• eggs

While these ingredients are usually involved when creating a cheese cake, the other ingredients are often vastly different. Cheese cake comes in a wide variety of flavors, including pumpkin cheese cake, white chocolate raspberry cheese cake, chocolate cheese cake, etc. A wide variety of cheese cake recipes can be found here, at All Recipies.com.

Puddings and custards are also desserts which heavily feature dairy as an ingredient. In the United States, pudding usually means milk or egg based dessert, though in the United Kingdom pudding may refer to a starch based dessert or even any type of dessert.

Pasta

Many types of pasta incorporate dairy in a large way, often in the form of cheese or a creamy sauce. Macaroni and cheese is one type of pasta dish which uses dairy. Baked macaroni and cheese may use a hard cheese such as cheddar as a sauce, or a white cheese, or a variety of cheeses in one dish. Different types and shapes of pasta may also be used. Some recipes for macaroni and cheese can be found here, at All Recipies.com.