''Salchichón'' is a
Spanish summer sausage that is made by smoking, drying, cooking, or some combination.
[The Art of Making Fermented Sausages]
page 218 Stanley Marianski, Adam Marianski 2009 It is made with pork, although some recipes use other meats including ox, veal, or horse.
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Preparation
The meat and fat are chopped in thin bits, seasoned with salt, pepper, nutmeg
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, oregano
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, and garlic, and then inserted in thick natural pork intestines. Curing can be done for up to three months.
Regional variations
In Puerto Rico
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, ''salchichón'' is a smoked summer sausage similar in some ways to Genoa salami, an unsmoked Italian dry sausage. The salami is made of beef liver, heart, tripe, and pork fat and meat. It is often seasoned with salt, vinegar, whole black peppercorns, and smoked paprika.
See also
* ''Saucisson
Saucisson (), also saucisson sec or saucisse sèche, is a family of thick, dry-cured sausage-shaped charcuterie in French cuisine. Typically made of pork, or a mixture of pork and other meats, saucisson are a type of charcuterie similar to s ...
'', a similar sausage from France
* ''Chorizo
''Chorizo'' ( , ; ; see #Names, below) is a type of pork sausage originating from the Iberian Peninsula. It is made in many national and regional varieties in several countries on different continents. Some of these varieties are quite differe ...
'', a similar food
References
Further reading
* Spanish Wikipedia Salchichón article, has much more detail
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Spanish sausages
Puerto Rican cuisine