Salumi
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Salumi (singular salume) is an Italian term describing the preparation of cured meat products made predominantly from pork. Salumi include bresaola, which is made from beef, and also cooked products such as mortadella and prosciutto cotto.
The word salumi comes from the Italian word salume, pl. salumi "salted meat", derived from Latin sal "salt".[1]
Examples of salumi include:
- Prosciutto – Italian dry-cured ham that is thinly sliced and served uncooked (Italian: Prosciutto crudo)
- Prosciutto di Parma – Italian dry-cured ham that is thinly sliced and served uncooked
- Prosciutto di San Daniele – Italian dry-cured ham that is thinly sliced and served uncooked
- Speck – Dry-cured ham from South Tyrol, Italy
- Culatello – Italian dry-cured ham that is thinly sliced and served uncooked
- Culaccia / Culatta
- Capocollo, also known as Coppa or Capicola – Italian and Swiss pork cold cut
- Bresaola – Air-dried and salted beef
- Cotechino – Type of Italian sausage / Zampone – Type of Italian sausage
- Guanciale – Italian cured meat product
- Lardo – Italian cured and seasoned strips of pig fat
- Lonza – Meat delicacy
- Lonzino – Cut of meat from a pig
- Mortadella – Large Italian (pork) sausage
- 'Nduja – Italian spicy, spreadable pork sausage
- Pancetta – Italian bacon made of pork belly meat
- Salami – Cured sausage, fermented and air-dried meat
- Genoa salami – Variety of sausage
- Salame di Felino – A variety of Italian salame , traditionally produced in Felino and other cities in the Parma province, qualifies for Prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale
- Soppressata – Italian dry salami (sausage)
- Strolghino – Italian cured pork
- Ciauscolo – Variety of Italian salame
See also
- Charcuterie – Branch of cooking of prepared meat products, primarily from pork
- List of dried foods
- List of sausages
- Salumeria – Producer and/or vendor of cured pork (salumi)
References
External links
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