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Cotechino of Modena I.G.P. Boiled salami

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Package: Vacuum-packed.
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Nutritional information

Each 100 g of product

Nutritional information: 307 kcal
Proteins: 21.5 g
Fats (lipids): 23.5 g
Cholesterol: 98 mg
Zinc: 2,10 mg
Iron: 1,5 mg
Potassium: 137 mg
Carbohydrates: 0.5 g

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According to the tradition, the cotechino of Modena was first made in 1511 at Mirandola: when the town was besieged by the troops of Pope Julius II, its inhabitants, in order to preserve pork meat, began to make it into sausages using the rind, giving rise to the cotechino.

Traditionally prepared in the area of Modena and Reggio Emilia, it is also produced in the other provinces of Emilia and Romagna, in almost all the Lombard provinces and in Veneto, in the provinces of Verona and Rovigo.

The cotechino of Modena I.G.P. is a sausage from pure pork to be served boiled with a typical cylindrical shape, prepared with different minced cuts of meat spiced with salt and peppercorn and in case some other ingredients such as wine, water, sugar, spices and natural flavourings.

The mincemeat obtained is made into sausages using a natural swine sheath.

Before cooking it must be rolled up in a cloth so that the skin does not crack during the boiling made in salted water.

The cotechino sold as a precooked sausage undergoes a cooking in airtight containers which allow its correct treatment in autoclave at a temperature of 115 °C and make possible a longer period of preservation.

It goes very well with mashed potatoes and vegetable and boiled pulse-based side dishes.

In Italy it is traditionally eaten during the Christmas holidays accompanied with lentils.

Ingredients: pork, rind, pork fat, salt, sugar, spices, natural flavourings, antioxidant: ascorbic acid, preservative: sodium nitrite.

The appellation I.G.P. is assigned to products prepared in the absolute respect of specific production rules provided for by specifications issued by the Producers’ Union.

Guaranteed by the Ministry of Agriculture (Ministry for Farming and Forest Policies), in conformity with art. ? 10 of the EEC regulations ? 2081/92.