Salami

Salami is a sausage made with meat and sometimes garlic, salt, white pepper, vinegar, or wine. Cooks ferment or smoke it; it has a smoky aroma and a firm texture when dried.

Category: Meat & poultry
Texture: Firm
Cooked most in: Europe
Top country: Italy
Dishes: 2 in the catalogue

Photo: André Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use salami

Typical ways to cook or use it

Ferment
Smoke

Made from

meat
garlic (sometimes)
table salt (sometimes)
white pepper (sometimes)
vinegar (sometimes)
wine (sometimes)

Flavour

Taste and texture

Aroma

Smoky

Texture, dried

Firm

Shopping

Choosing and storing salami

Keeping it

Counter · cut

Around the world

Where salami is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use salami. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Europe1

Countries whose dishes use it most

Italy 1

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list salami among their ingredients.

Origins

The 1700s · Italy
The modern recipe originated in Italy early in the 18th century.

On the table

Dishes made with salami

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

Diavola pizza
Italy
Pepperoni pizza

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include salami.

Family

Related forms

A kind of: sausage