Casatiello: Neapolitan Easter bread (recipe)
Casatiello is a Neapolitan Easter bread, chock full of delicious salame and cheese and topped with symbolic eggs. Easy to make and stunning to see.
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Quick guide to Italian ingredients: ‘Nduja
This article is about Calabria. ‘Nduja (pronouned ‘in-doo-ya’) is an incredibly spicy salame from the Calabrian village of Spìlinga. It’s made from pork mixed together with a high proportion of Calabrian chile (peperoncino), which gives it a bright red colour and fiery taste. It’s very soft which makes it easily spreadable on bread, which …
Quick guide to Italian ingredients: Finocchiona (fennel salami)
Salami is one of the most famous of all Italian ingredients and forms part of antipasto platters and pizza toppings up and down the peninsula. Travelling around Italy however, once again, you notice that every region has its own variations and varieties. Perhaps the most famous Tuscan salami, and certainly my favourite, is finocchiona, …
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