ri·cot·ta 
(rĭ-kŏtə)
(rĭ-kŏtə)n.
A soft, unripened and usually unsalted cheese made from whey, often used as a filling.
[Italian, from Latin recocta, feminine past participle of recoquere, to cook again : re-, re- + coquere, to cook; see pekw- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]