I recevied this from a friend that lives in Italy. How am i supposed to eat this properly and how is it called?
by blackrat13
I recevied this from a friend that lives in Italy. How am i supposed to eat this properly and how is it called?
by blackrat13
15 comments
Looks like bacon that’s been rolled up
Coppa
It seems similar to pancetta/pork belly.
You have to cut it in thin slices and eat them. Usually to enhance the savour I put the slices over pieces of bread.
Pancetta coppata or pancetta arrotolata, to be sliced thinly and consumed with a slice of durum wheat bread and a glass of red wine
Slice it thinly and enjoy
That is a Pancetta, a cured meat made from the pig, you can look it up on Wikipedia to know more.
You can slice it and eat it as it is, you don’t need to cook it. You can eat it in a sandwich with some hard cheese (Grana Padano), or prepare a plate with different cured meats (pancetta, prosciutto crudo, salame), some jam and some cheese, with a glass of wine, to eat before lunch (this is an Aperitivo)
Looks like [this stuff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancetta), it’s cured prok belly, the same stuff as streaky bacon with a different curing technique. It looks round because it’s the “rolled” variant.
If you remove the outer layer and slice it thin it should be edible raw, else you can cut it in slices or little pieces and cook with it (always remove the outer layer).
You usually eat it with your mouth
slighty toasted slice of wholegrain bread, a couple thin slices of this beautiful pancetta, honey and boiled chestnuts which you drenched in honey for a couple hours
Hello
It’s, as said, pancetta. You can slice it (very thin, I recommend a special machine for this) , eat it with tomato or mozzarella. Once sliced, you can put it under vacuum packaging again.
You can also cut it in cubes, and frie them with pasta.
It can be frozen, but slice or dice it first !
With your mouth
Pancetta arrotolata, you can eat it crude over toasted bread
This Is a big piece of pure love
As said by many others you should cut it as thin as you can and have it with some cheese and a wine for a great appetizer or side.
Or… you could cut it thicker (like 0.5 cm or 0.2 inches) and do some small cubes out of it for a very nice pasta dish: you stir fry (in evo oil) some finely chopped onion until it’s transparent, add the pancetta cubes, cook a couple of minutes, add some tomate cherries chopped in half, salt and pepper, lower the flame and cover, let it cook until pasta is ready. Great dish. Add some cream and parmesan cheese for particularly sad days.
Pancetta, you need a meat slicer, if you don’t have one I can take it from you for free 🙂