Italian cured meat products predominantly made from pork
Not to be confused with
salami.
Salumi (sg.: salume, Italian: [saˈluːme]) are Italian meat products typical of an antipasto, predominantly made from pork and cured. Salumi also include bresaola, which is made from beef, and some cooked products, such as mortadella and prosciutto.
The word salume, 'salted meat', derives from the Latin sal, 'salt'.
Examples of salumi include:
- Prosciutto – dry-cured ham, thinly sliced and served uncooked (prosciutto crudo)
- Capocollo, also known as coppa or capicola – Italian and French pork cold cut
- Bresaola – air-dried and salted beef
- Cotechino – slow cooked pork sausage
- Cotechino Modena – fresh pork sausage from Modena
- Guanciale – prepared with pork jowl or cheek
- Lardo – Italian cured and seasoned strips of pig fat
- Lonza and lonzino – salumi made from cured pork loin
- Mortadella – sausage made from finely ground cured pork
- 'Nduja – Calabrian spicy, spreadable pork sausage
- Pancetta – made from pork belly meat
- Salami – cured sausage, fermented and air-dried meat
See also
Media related to Salumi at Wikimedia Commons
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