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.

Stuffed Provolone with Pressed Sausage: technical info

7.3.2018

SHAPE:

This kind of Salami, named Stuffed Provolone with Pressed Sausage is a variant of Spicy and Pressed Sausage, which is one of more commercial Calabrian  product, and got an elongated shape. Weight: 1-3 Kg Color: ivory-white. Externally a cheese, stuffed with Spicy  and Pressed Sausage.

INGREDIENTS:

  • Cow’s milk curd
  • Spicy and Pressed Sausage
  • Salt
  • Spices,
  • Natural flavors
  • antioxidant E 301
  • ConservativeE 250
  • Conservative E 252

PRODUCTIVE PROCESS:

Threaded pasta processing. Garnishing. Cooling in cold water. Salting in salamoia. Maturation and 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 OF EXTERNAL CHEESE (PROVOLONE):

  • Proteins: 16.7%
  • Carbohydrates: 2%
  • Fat: 18,1%
  • Water 61.7%
  • Energy value: 223 Kcal or 933 Kjoule.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION OF INTERNAL PRESSED SAUSAGE:

  • Proteins: 28.74%
  • Carbohydrates: 1.2%, of which Sugars  0.35%.
  • Fat: 29.08%, of which Saturated 10.40%
  • Salt 3.22%
  • Energy value: 382 Kcal or 1585 Kjoule.

ALLERGEN LIST OF SPICY SAUSAGE (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