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The best sausages are made in the Upper Molise, where it is still maintained the classic tradition of the butchery. Great reputation is for the brawn, especially in Castel del Giudice, Capracotta and Agnone, where there are also great tasting smoked ham, similar to a ventricina Abruzzo and certainly no less spicy occurs in Montenero di Bisaccia. Sessano has a particular specialty of pork liver sausage, known as "frascateglie" in local dialect, quite similar to mazzafegati and fegatazzi of neighboring regions. Their use is widespread in the company of polenta.
At Rionero they prepares a special sausage, flavored by fennel and preserved in fat.
| Cacciatorini DOP |
Pork Salami |
Cacciatorini sausages are popular for their characteristic taste and small size, which
is quickly seasoned and can always be consumed fresh, since eaten quickly one at a time.
Moreover, the name of this sausage derives exactly from a widespread rural use of hunters
who used to bring short sausages with them in their excursions because, considering their
reduced size, they could place them easily in their sacks. |
| Coppa di Campobasso |
Pork Salami |
In Campobasso the head of the pig, cut off from the body was hung in a hook
and garnished with an orange in its mouth, two chillies in its nostrils and a laurel branch
in each ear. This tradition is almost no existent today, but we can find it in some popular
sayings "vulesse vere la capa to' appesa a la chianca ru Muccechille cu temone 'mmocca". |
| Mulette |
Pork Salami |
Molise's version of Capocollo or Coppa,
spiced with chili rather than black pepper. |
| Pancetta |
Pork Salami |
Fatty meat from the pig's belly, shaped in rectangles or coiled. Essentially it is un-smoked bacon; it is served raw as an antipasto or cooked in numerous dishes. |
| Pampanella di San Martino |
Pork Salami |
Small pork chops coated with a chili pepper
and garlic paste, roasted, then rubbed with salt and vinegar. |
| Prosciutto Affumicato |
Pork Salami |
Smoked hams rubbed with wine and chili. |
| Saggicciotto |
Pork Salami |
Grade pork (leg, loin, neck, etc..) Are minced and mixed with diced hard fat. It is seasoned with salt, pepper and stuffed into natural casings, but did not put in the press. It's a version of Molise Guilmi fine sausage. |
| Salsiccia di fegato di Rionero Sannitico |
Pork Salami |
Fennel-flavored sausage conserved under a
layer of fat. |
| Salsiccia Stufata |
Pork Salami |
Cooked sausage that may include pork liver. |
| Sanguinati |
Pork Salami |
Blood pudding scented with raisins, orange
zest, parsley, chili, and garlic. |
| Soppressata di Rionero Sannitico |
Pork Salami |
Salami from lean pork meat and pork fat
(preferably from small black pigs). The meat is cut by knife rather than
ground, then spiced, stuffed into casings, and pressed under a weight to
obtain its characteristic flattened shape (hence the name). |
| Ventricina Molisana di Montenero di Bisaccia |
Pork Salami |
Spreadable pork sausage similar to Ciauscolo; flavored with chili.
A dry, good smelling tasty sausage, seasoned by cold winds
going upstream from the sea, fragrant and colored by “pepedigne” which all it
penetrates. |
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