Chocolate salami

Chocolate salami is an Italian and Portuguese dessert made from cocoa, broken biscuits, butter, eggs and sometimes alcohol such as port wine or rum. The dessert became popular across Europe and elsewhere, often losing alcohol as an ingredient along the way.[1]

Chocolate salami
Packaged chocolate salami at a supermarket in Évora, Portugal
Alternative namesSalame al cioccolato; Salame de chocolate
Place of originItaly and Portugal
Main ingredientsCocoa, broken cookies, butter, eggs.
Chocolate Salami made in Portugal (by Lusoestrela)

Chocolate salami is not a meat product. The appellation "salami" stems from physical resemblance. Like salami, chocolate salami is formed as a long cylinder and is sliced across into discs for serving. These discs are a brown, chocolaty matrix (like the red meat of salami) peppered with bright bits of cookie (like the white flecks of fat in salami). In Portugal, they are typically made using Marie biscuit. [2] Some varieties also contain chopped nuts, such as almonds or hazelnuts and may be shaped like truffles.

International Variations

In Greece, chocolate salami is called mosaiko or kormos.[3]

In Turkey, it is called mozaik pasta (Mosaic Cake).[4]

In Romania, it is called salam de biscuiți (biscuit salami), and it may have originated during the 1970s or 1980s in the communist era, possibly as a result of food shortages.[5] [6]

In Uruguay, it is called salchichón de chocolate (chocolate sausage).

In Italy, it is also called salame al cioccolato (chocolate salami)

In Lithuania, a similar dessert is called tinginys (Lithuanian: lazy), which is made out of cocoa, broken biscuits, condensed milk and butter, and sometimes nuts, however alternative recipes exist under the same name of the dish.

See also
  •  Food portal

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-01-03. Retrieved 2013-01-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Salame De Chocolate (Portuguese Chocolate Salami)". easyportugueserecipes.com. March 14, 2013.
  3. "Mosaiko recipe (Greek Chocolate and Biscuits Dessert) - My Greek Dish". My Greek Dish. 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  4. "An Easy, Chocolatey, No Bake Dessert From Turkey". The Spruce. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  5. "A Cookie for Every Country: Romania: Salam de Biscuiti". A Cookie for Every Country. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
  6. "Reteta de salam de biscuiti cu stafide si rom - reteta clasica a copilariei". Totul Bio. Retrieved 2019-08-30.


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