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SALAME COTTO

February 15, 2013 By Manu 14 Comments

Salame Cotto

For the January-February 2013 Daring Cooks’ Challenge, Carol, one of our talented non-blogging members and Jenni, one of our talented bloggers who writes The Gingered Whisk, have challenged us to make homemade sausage and/or cured, dried meats in celebration of the release of the book Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn! We were given two months for this challenge and the opportunity to make delicious Salumi in our own kitchens!
WOW! When I first read that this month’s theme was going to be salumi I got sooo excited!  I have grown up eating some of the best salumi in the world: Prosciutto (both of Parma and San Daniele), Culatello, Speck, Salami, Mortadella, Pancetta, Coppa, Guanciale… you name it!  Italians do make amazing salumi!  When I first moved to Australia I was shocked to find out that due to quarantine regulations, the majority of these amazing salumi, could not be imported!  After a few months, luckily, the ban on prosciutto was removed and we can finally get Italian prosciutto down here too (sorry guys… nothing personal, but Australian prosciutto just does not taste the same!).  Unfortunately the ban is still on for the remaining above-mentioned items.  SIGH.  Some Italian migrants have managed to make pretty good substitutes for mortadella, salami, guanciale, lard and speck, but nobody seems to get pancetta right!  Anyhow, I really wanted to try and make my own (or my own salami), but we are in summer down here and I have nowhere to cure meat in this heat!  I will however try it later on!  I often make Italian sausage at home, so I thought that was no real “challenge” for me.  What to make then??  It had to be something that could be cooked, rather than cured.  Then I remembered.  When I was a child, my parents and I would drive all the way to a small village in the area of Monferrato (in Piedmont), to buy local meat and salumi.  The butcher there would make the most amazing salami, EVER.  He used to make regular cured salami and a speciality of Northern Italy: salame cotto.  I liked it soooo much!  Salame cotto is basically the same as a cured salami, but instead of being cured, it is cooked. So I thought of giving it a go and I was surprised by how easy it was!  It came out perfect, just like the one I used to buy… or maybe even better, as there are no preservatives in my recipe!  You eat it just like any other salami: cold and thinly sliced.  It is great with crusty bread and a glass of red wine.  Enjoy and don’t forget to check out some delicious recipes for salumi, and all the other yummy variations that my fellow Daring Cooks came up with, here!

Salame Cotto

Salame Cotto

Salame Cotto
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Salame Cotto

How to make a classic Italian salume at home: Salame Cotto, aka "cooked salami".

Course Appetiser, Charcuterie, Salumi
Cuisine Italian
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Author Manuela Zangara

Ingredients

  • 700 gms – 1.5 lbs. pork scotch fillet
  • 300 gms – 0.7 lbs. pork rashers
  • 25 gms – 0.9 oz. salt
  • 50 ml – 1.7 oz. red wine
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg
  • 20 pepper corns
  • 2 gms – 0.07 oz. ground pepper
  • ¼ tsp garlic powder
  • 2 juniper berries crushed
  • ¼ tsp clove powder
  • Salami casing soaked in tepid water for at least 20 minutes and rinsed

Instructions

  1. Roughly chop the scotch fillet and the rashers.
  2. Grind the scotch fillet and 1/3 of the rashers using a 0.5 cm – 0.2 inch diameter grinder.
  3. Cut the remaining 2/3 of the rashers with a knife into 1.3 cm – ½ inch pieces.
  4. Mix the ground meat and the chopped rashers together in a bowl. Add the salt, red wine, nutmeg, pepper corns, ground pepper, garlic powder, juniper berries and clove powder and knead well.
  5. Stuff the salami into the casing and tie it off with a bubble knot.
  6. Tie the salami with butcher’s twine. Click here for a video on how to do this.
  7. Let it rest, uncovered, at 20° to 25°C (68°F – 77°F) for 24 hours.
    Salame Cotto
  8. The following day, using a clean needle, poke holes all over the salami, especially where there may be air pockets.
  9. Wrap it in baking paper and put it in a pot. Cover it with cold water and put it on the fire. When it starts boiling, put the fire on medium-low and let it simmer, uncovered, for 1 hour. The salami is cooked when it reaches an internal temperature of 80°C - 176°F (this usually takes 1 hour per kg – 2.2. lbs., so if your salami weighs 2 kg – 4.4. lbs, then it will have to cook for 2 hours. These timings are only indicative though, as the cooking time also depends on the thickness of the salami).
  10. When cooked, let it cool down in the cooking water.
  11. Then drain it, pat it dry and refrigerate it for at least 24 hours before slicing it.
  12. Enjoy it with some crusty bread and a glass of red wine!

Recipe Notes

Store in the fridge for up to 1 week, wrapped in aluminium foil.

 

Salame Cotto

Salame Cotto

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Comments

  1. Audax Artifex says

    February 16, 2013 at 2:48 am

    WOW your cooked salami looks so professional and your photography is superb. A fabulous result bravo to you. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.

    Reply
  2. Jenni says

    February 16, 2013 at 5:13 am

    Oh wow!! Your salame cotto looks utterly fantastic! I wish I could have some! I am so glad you were excited about this challenge, you did a great job! I would love to see your Italian sausages, too! 🙂

    Reply
  3. Arlette says

    February 16, 2013 at 8:54 am

    your Salami is amazing, i wish i can taste some.
    I bookmark the recipe… for sure its on my to do list now.

    Reply
  4. Claudia says

    February 16, 2013 at 11:09 am

    You have encouraged me to give salami making a try. Our warm weather makes it difficult to attempt air drying. Great photos!

    Reply
  5. Marcellina says

    February 16, 2013 at 12:09 pm

    My husbands family comes from Camagna Monferrato and we were just there in September 2012. This is a gorgeous area of Italy. In saying that my husband really enjoys cooked salami but I never thought of making it. Yours looks absolutely amazing. I am about to make your soffincini for lunch but soon I will have to try the cooked salami.

    Reply
  6. Carol aka Poisonive says

    February 17, 2013 at 1:26 am

    Fabulous effort and I love your post and pictures. I am so glad you enjoyed the challenge – Well Done!

    Reply
  7. Carolyn says

    February 18, 2013 at 12:54 am

    I can’t wait to try this! I just got a meat grinder and sausage stuffer for Christmas so this is right up my alley.

    Reply
  8. Michelle @Amourbeurre says

    February 18, 2013 at 8:46 am

    So totally impressed! This looks delicious!

    Reply
  9. PolaM says

    February 27, 2013 at 2:03 pm

    Love this! And love that it does not require a cellar! Have to try making it.

    Reply
  10. Enrique R. says

    June 13, 2013 at 9:58 am

    Sorry. Don’t like the colors.
    Think need nitrite for more red me hog meat.

    Reply
    • Manu says

      June 13, 2013 at 10:07 am

      Yes, with nitrate it would look prettier, I agree. Though the taste is not at all affected. 🙂

      Reply
    • Erin says

      February 19, 2014 at 12:08 pm

      If we can all get over wanting to eat red meats, we will reduce our risk of cancer.

      Congrats Manuela, it looks perfect to me. Must try it! Thank you.

      Reply
  11. Richard D Schinella says

    January 28, 2020 at 11:42 am

    Dear Manu, …great website. I have been looking for a good recipe for Salame Cotto for several years, for it was a favorite of mine when growing u in NYC in a northern Italian family (Friulano). We ate “cold cuts” every weekend, and always when we had company, …and salame cotto was always our favorite. I purchased 2.5 kg of “pork belly” today to make Japanese Chashu to be used in Shoyu Ramen, and have about 1 kg “rashers” left over that I will use to make salame cotto, …and the pork belly skin that I will use to make cotechino (another family favorite). Thank you for sharing your recipes.

    Reply
    • Manu says

      January 28, 2020 at 7:32 pm

      Ciao Richard! So nice to meet you! I have actually recently visited Friule and I will be posting about it on the blog in the next few weeks. Lovely region! I love salame cotto and I cannot find it here in Australia. I really hope you like the recipe. Let me know!!

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