Author: Eduardo Artisanal Charcuterie

Curing and smoking to preserve food at home

What is cured meat?

Curing is the addition to meats of some combination of salt, sugar, nitrite and/or nitrate for preservation, flavor and color purposes. Some publications distinguish the use of salt alone as salting, and reserve the word cure for the use of salt with nitrates/nitrites. Curing ingredients can be rubbed onto the surface of the food, mixed into dry foods (dry curing), or dissolved in water (brine, wet curing, or pickling). In the last processes, the food is submerged in the brine until it is completely covered. With large cuts of meat, brine can also be injected into the muscle. The term pickle in curing has been used to mean any brine solution or a brine curing solution with added sugar.

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Salami Cotto with crust

salame cotto crosta

O Salami Cotto, or cooked salami, is a dish of Italian culinary tradition, typical of the regions of Piedmont, Lazio and the cities of Piacenza and Savona. It is a sausage made with pork, seasoned like classic salami. It is usually prepared for Sunday lunch or during the Christmas and Easter holidays.

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Colonial Salami Recipe

Salame Colonial Pronto 15 dias

O colonial salami is a Brazilian salami very common in southern Brazil, colonial salami was adapted from revenues coming from Europe by immigrants mainly Germans and Italians. Colonial salami is generally made without using an air-conditioned environment during the process. As Brazil has a much warmer climate than Europe throughout most of the year, salami had to undergo some adaptations to be able to be made in our climate.

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Sucuk or Sudzhuk dried sausage from central Asia and the Mediterranean

sucuk sudzhuk

Sucuk, sujuk or sudzhuk is a cured (dried) sausage, spicy and with a lot of garlic, consumed in the Balkan region, the Middle East and Central Asia, that is, in countries that were part of the Ottoman Empire. The name comes from Persian and means “full gut”.

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Processed meats curing salt nitrite nitrate and cancer

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Does curing salt cause cancer?

It is not the curing salt (nitrite and/or nitrate) itself that is associated with cancer, but rather the nitrosamines, which are a secondary compound that, in certain circumstances, including our stomach, can be formed in the human body by consumption. of nitrite. Knowing this, the main question is: what is the biggest source of nitrite and nitrate in our food?

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Alheira Portuguesa

alheira linguiça portugal receita portuguesa

How to make Portuguese alheira? Portuguese Alheira Recipe. A alheira is a typical, lightly smoked Portuguese sausage originally made only with poultry meat, bread and plenty of garlic. In this recipe I used chicken and pork, but if you want the most original recipe, use only chicken meat. You can replace the chicken/chicken with turkey, duck or any other bird you prefer. It's a simple and very tasty recipe. Smoking is optional but recommended as smoking helps with flavor, color, aroma and protection.

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Meat emulsion

salsicha emulsão cárnea

What is a meat emulsion?

The meat emulsion is a structure composed of water, fat, ground meat (finely cut), salt, phosphate, and may also include other products of animal and/or vegetable origin, such as powdered milk, whey, sodium caseinate and/or potassium, soy derivatives (isolate, concentrate or flour), blood plasma, cereal starches, starches, among others. The emulsion is a complex with a discontinuous phase (fat), a continuous phase (water) and an emulsifying agent (protein). The fat particles are suspended in an aqueous matrix that is trapped by soluble proteins (mainly actin, myosin and myoglobin) and in which final stabilization is achieved through the formation of gels.

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Homemade smoked pepperoni sausage in the pan

linguiça calabresa defumada na panela caseira charcutaria

Recipe for homemade smoked Calabrian sausage in the pan. Smoked Calabrese sausage is one of the most loved sausages in Brazil, it goes well in feijoadas, pizzas, sliced into dishes with rice and beans, in snacks or appetizers on tables in bars and restaurants. In starters, appetizers or main dishes, it is everywhere. A good pepperoni sausage is irresistible! It is a lightly spiced sausage, with a smoky touch and a firm, very compact consistency.

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