Salo

Also called Slanina

Salo is cured, salted pig fat; the fat and skin are used. Cooks pair it with rye bread, garlic, and onion.

Category: Fats & oils
Made from: Pig fat
Part used: Fat, skin
Cooked most in: Europe
Top country: Ukraine
Dishes: 6 in the catalogue

Photo: Roland Geider ( Ogre ) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use salo

Preparing it

Chop salo into small pieces before frying it to render the fat.

Cooking with it

Frying chopped salo renders cooking fat and leaves cracklings.

Goes well with

Around the world

Where salo is cooked

6 dishes in the catalogue use salo. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Europe5

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

On the table

Dishes made with salo

6 dishes in the catalogue use it.

Zelekivka zlyvanka
Ukraine
Cocido
Spain
Rakott krumpli
Hungary
Wereszczaka
Peas with salo
Poland
Zlyvana kasha
Ukraine

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

Family

Related forms

Made from: pig fat (cured, salted)

Around the world

What salo is called

Names in 46 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Salo
French
Salo
Italian
Salo
Portuguese
Salo
German
Salo
Dutch
Salo
Turkish
Salo
Russian
сало
Polish
słonina
Arabic
سالو
Persian
سالا
Hebrew
סאלו

Show all 46 languages

Albanian
Salo (ushqim)
Armenian
Ճարպայուղ
Azerbaijani
Salo
Belarusian
сала
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
сала
Bulgarian
сланина
Catalan
slănină
Chinese
薩洛 · 乌克兰腌肉
Chuvash
Сало
Croatian
Slanina
Czech
slanina
Esperanto
saloo
Finnish
Salo
Hungarian
szalonna
Indonesian
Salo (makanan)
Japanese
サーロ
Javanese
Salo
Korean
살로
Latvian
Sālīts speķis
Lithuanian
Lašiniai
Malayalam
സാലോ · സ്ലാലിന
Mari
Коя
Odia
ସାଲୋ
Romanian
slănină · salo
Rusyn
Солонина
Samogitian
Lašėnē
Serbian
сланина
Serbian (Latin)
Slanina
Simplified Chinese (China)
萨洛
Slovak
slanina
Slovenian
slanina
Swiss High German
Salo
Tajik
Сало (хӯрок)
Thai
ซาลอ
Traditional Chinese
薩洛
Tyap
Salo · Si̱lanina
Ukrainian
сало
Vietnamese
mỡ muối

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q6496411

Photos