Salo (food)
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Salo or slanina
The Slavic word "salo" or "slanina" as applied to this type of food is often translated to English as "
Preservation
For preservation, salo is salted and sometimes also smoked and aged in a dark and cold place, where it will last for a year or more. The slabs of fat are first cut into manageable pieces, typically 15×20 cm. Then layers of fat slabs (skin side down) topped with one-centimetre layers of salt go into a wooden box or barrel for curing. For added flavouring and better preservation, the salo may be covered with a thick layer of paprika (usually in the more Western lands; in Russian salo with paprika is called "Hungarian"), minced garlic, or sometimes black pepper.[citation needed]
Culinary
Salo is consumed both raw and cooked. Salo is often chopped into small pieces and fried to render fat for
Chocolate salo
Salo in chocolate is a Ukrainian dish, created as a joke or experiment and produced since the late 90s.[1][2]
The recipe is thought to have originated in an ethnic joke about the Ukrainians' cult-like attitude towards salo, similar to the Italians' attitude towards spaghetti.[2]
Usage
Salted salo can be stored long. It can be consumed without any preparation. For these reasons, it is often used as a food supply by shepherds, hunters, backpackers, and other travellers, and was issued to German and Hungarian soldiers as part of their rations during World War II.[citation needed]
When salo has been aged too long or exposed to light, the fat may oxidize on the surface and become rancid, yellow, and bitter-tasting. Though no longer fit for culinary use, the spoiled fat can be used as a water-repellent treatment for leather boots or bait for
See also
- Museum of Salo, Lviv, Ukraine
- Szalonna
- Lardo
- Salt pork
- Charcuterie
- List of smoked foods
Notes
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- Ukrainian: сало, romanized: salo, pronounced [ˈsaɫɔ] ⓘ
- Russian: сало, romanized: salo, pronounced [ˈsaɫə] ⓘ
- Belarusian: сала, romanized: sala
- Hungarian: szalonna
- Polish: słonina
- Romanian: slănină
- Bulgarian: сланина, romanized: slanina
- Czech, Macedonian, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: slanina
- Lithuanian: lašiniai
- Rusyn: солонина, romanized: solonyna
- The Russian and Ukrainian cognate ru:солонина (solonina, solonyna) is a brine-treaded meat, such as corned beef.
References
- ^ К 1 апреля украинцы сметают с полок магазинов "сало в шоколаде"
- ^ a b Chapple, Amos (8 May 2019). "Ukraine's Pig-Fat Chocolate". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 26 February 2023.