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Italian ragù alla bolognese is a slowly cooked meat-based sauce, and its preparation involves several techniques, including sweating, sautéing and braising. Ingredients include a characteristic soffritto of onion, celery, and carrot, different types of minced or finely chopped beef , often alongside small amounts of fatty pork .
Guanciale is the most commonly used meat for the dish in Italy, but pancetta and pancetta affumicata are also used [28] [29] [8] and, in English-speaking countries, bacon is often used as a substitute. [30] The usual cheese is pecorino romano; [6] occasionally Parmesan, Grana Padano, or a combination of hard cheeses are used.
The Italian sausage was initially known as lucanica, [3] a rustic pork sausage in ancient Roman cuisine, with the first evidence dating back to the 1st century BC, when the Roman historian Marcus Terentius Varro described stuffing spiced and salted meat into pig intestines, as follows: "They call lucanica a minced meat stuffed into a casing, because our soldiers learned how to prepare it."
Italian cuisine has a great variety of sausages and cured meats, many of which are protected and marked as PDO and PGI, [91] and make up 34% of the total of sausages and cured meats consumed in Europe, [92] while others are marked as PAT. [93] Salumi are Italian meat products typical of an antipasto, predominantly made from pork and cured.
Capocollo; Alternative names: Capicollo (Tuscia viterbese, Campania, Molise, Apulia, Basilicata and Calabria), ossocollo (Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia), finocchiata (Siena), coppa di collo (Romagna), capocollo or corpolongo (northern Lazio and central-southern Umbria), lonza (central-southern Lazio) or lonzino (Marche and Abruzzo), scamerita or scalmarita (northern Umbria and Tuscany ...
Salami (/ s ə ˈ l ɑː m i / sə-LAH-mee; sg.: salame) is a salume consisting of fermented and air-dried meat, typically pork.Historically, salami was popular among Southern, Eastern, and Central European peasants because it can be stored at room temperature for up to 45 days once cut, supplementing a potentially meager or inconsistent supply of fresh meat.
The classic Italian mortadella is widely sold in supermarkets along the entire Adriatic coast. In Greece, where there is a smaller version in addition to the regular one, that variety is called parizaki or mortadelaki , and in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and North Macedonia, the product known as mortadela is widely eaten.
Guanciale (Italian: [ɡwanˈtʃaːle]) is an Italian salt-cured meat product prepared from pork jowl or cheeks. [1] Its name is derived from guancia, meaning 'cheek'. [2] Its rendered fat gives flavour to and thickens the sauce of pasta dishes. [3]