This one is called Salami Nocciola. Nocciola has the meaning "hazelnut" and from the ingredients list you see why this is called Salami Nocciola, but since I could not find hazelnuts I had to go with chopped almonds. Yes I know not even close in taste but I had to go with what I had. That's mandorie in Italian. OK so here is what you need for this salami. I doubled the recipe. Figured if I am going to make salami lets make more.
4 pounds/1815 grams pork shoulder butt, cut into large dice
1 pound/450 grams pork back fat, cut into large dice
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 ounces/56 grams sea salt
1 teaspoon/7 grams DQ Curing Salt #2
1 tablespoon/6 grams finely ground white pepper
1 tablespoon/12 grams dextrose
1 tablespoon/4 grams chopped fresh tarragon or 1 teaspoon/1 gram dried tarragon
Vi cup/65 milliliters chilled dry red wine
1 tablespoon/10 grams Bactoferm (live starter culture; see Sources, page 267)
2 tablespoons/30 milliliters distilled water
1 cup/120 grams hazelnuts, toasted, skinned, and coarsely chopped
Mold 600 (see page 70 for more information and page 267 for sources) (optional)
Two 18-inch/45-centimeter lengths beef middle, soaked in tepid water for at least
20 minutes and rinsed
blanch almonds.
2 cups worth
Now they should be toasted so into the frying pan with some Sesame oil on medium high to brown.
Got the meat all ground up and it was just shy of 6 lbs.
2 lbs. of pork back fat I picked up today all diced up. Going to mix & stuff like that. I like the large chunks in salami.
Beef middles soaking away.
It called for 4 garlic, I have some really big home grown garlic so I went with just four. Think it should be fine.
Got the rest of the spices and cure measured out.
Now onto mixing the meat. I have a meat mixer but I prefer to do it all by hand.
Fat meets pork
Everybody in the pool and getting to know each other.
Using my hand bomber for these.
I got 6 salami's out of that batch. The last one will be my test salami when it comes time.
Right now they are in my incubation chamber.
They have to spend 12 hours at 80-90 degrees F and about 85% humidity. So the pop cooler I was planning on turning into my new cure chamber is getting broke in being a incubation chamber.
We want the salami to get to a PH of 4.7-5.2. that is why we have it in heat and high humidity. Tomorrow I will check the PHand if it's in range these will get netted and switched over to the curing chamber.
I could go on and on about this but the rest of the wine needs some tender loving care.
Day 2
Checked the PH today and its in the ballpark 5.1.
So today they got netted. For those of you that have wondered how netting is done, this is my way. Just push or pull it through the PVC pipe. Tie it off or hog clip it. I do both.
Make sure you record the green weight. We are looking to loose at least 30% of that even before its close to being done, I like it closer to 45% myself.
Tomorrow they will get sprayed with Mold 600 to give them that nice white GOOD mold on the casings.
So now they are resting in the curing chamber for a few months.
