Category: Calabria

‘Nduja: technical info

29.3.2018

SHAPE:

This spicy sausage is one the more known cream of salami in Italy. Inside the Mediterrean basin it has great similarity only with French Andouille (a coarse-grained sausage made with pork, intestines or chitterlings, pepper, wine, onions and seasonings, of generally about 25 mm in diameter). In Calabria, instead, it is one of main types of salami, and got a round shape of various sizes. External color brown; color red interior.

INGREDIENTS:
-Pork
-Salt
-Spicy pepper
-Spices, natural aromas
-Dextrose
-Fennel
-E 301 antioxidant
-E 250, Conservative
-E 252 Conservative

PRODUCTIVE PROCESS:

Chopping, dough with ingredients, bagging, seasoning.

MINIMUM HOLDING TIME (TMC)

  • Under Empty: 120 dd
  • Recommended storage conditions,  Temperature: +3/+6°C
  • Transport temperature +5/+7°C
  • Shelf life 120 dd

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION:

  • Proteins: 19.23%
  • Carbohydrates: 2.90%, of which Sugars 2.50%.
  • Fat: 35.37%, of which Saturated 10.81%
  • Salt 3.79%
  • Energy value: 407 Kcal or 1,635 Kjoule.

ALLERGEN LIST (usually absent):

-Cereals containing gluten (wheat, rye, oats barley, spelled, kamut or their hybridized strains)
-Crustaceans or crustaceans
-Eggs and egg products
-Fish and fish products
-Peanuts and peanut products
-Soya and soy products
-Milk and milk products
-Nuts
-Molluscs and mollusc products
-Lupine and lupine based products

 

Calabrian Hot Chili Pepper

26.3.2018

Calabrian Hot Chili Pepper is  deeply embedded in Calabrian culture, especially in the best of the Calabrian rural food tradition. While exportation is not very developed, anyway  in the market of Made in Italy Calabrian pepper offers a wide presence of product lines, that honors to “his majesty Hot Pepper”, the main ingredient in many Calabrian recipes.

For example, the best vegetables are preserved in oil full of pepper, according to the ancient recipes of southern Italy, enriched with natural flavors and aromas.
Pepper is used for appetizers and side-dishes to taste unique and genuine recipes. Or it is employed in a wide range of Calabrian specialties as fish-products.

Pepper can be enjoyed ideally with aged cheeses, boiled and roasted meat, and grilled vegetables. Then it recalls the flavors and aromas of an ancient land, Calabria, especially if mixed to other spices and dried herbs, sealed by hand
to ensure all the taste and the warmth of Calabria.

Often Calabrian Hot Chili Pepper is the main ingredient, with unusual combinations and elaborate preparations, of condiments and sauces in a gradation of flavors from mild to spicy.