yayla

Yayla is the ayran name diaspora fridges know by heart — classic, village-style and flavored ayran, plus white cheeses and böreklik blocks.

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Yayla Cheese and Ayran

Yayla is a Turkish dairy name associated with high fat traditional cheeses and village style ayran. The range stocked here includes sheep, goat and cow white cheese at fifty and sixty percent fat in generous eight hundred gram tins, alongside koy ayran made the traditional way and fruit flavoured ayran in mango and strawberry. Higher fat white cheese behaves very differently from the lean supermarket kind: it crumbles softly, tastes creamy rather than merely salty, and holds up beautifully in borek.

Ayran and cheese at the table

Shake ayran hard before pouring so the separated whey folds back in, and serve it very cold with a pinch of salt alongside grilled meat, pide or borek. Keep white cheese submerged in its brine and take it out of the fridge half an hour before serving for the best texture and aroma.

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Storage, shelf life and reordering yayla

• All stock is rotated, so you receive the freshest batch available.
• Ships from our US warehouse, free on orders over $100.
• Bulk and family sizes are stocked alongside single units.
• Reorder in one click from your account order history.

Keep yayla in a cool, dry cupboard away from direct sunlight and heat, and reseal or decant anything opened into an airtight container. Buying a size you will finish within a season is better value than the largest pack available, because aroma and texture fade long before a printed date does. Regular customers tend to reorder yayla every four to eight weeks.