Recipes

Chocolate Salami or Salami of the Pope

May 19, 2011

Salami of the Pope? When something is good, in Italy we say it’s the priest’s dish; when a dish is really really good, we say we eat like the Pope, or like God.

So this sweet salami must be really good. The truth is, it was prepared by women, especially in winter, and served to guests whit a glass of good wine.

Ingredients

butter
200g
"novellini" cookies
200g
sugared cocoa powder
200g
cocoa powder without sugar
100g
hazelnuts
300g
orange-flavored liquor
2 spoons
egg yolk
1

Procedure

Peel the hazelnuts and ground them in the oven; then crush them in a mortar.

Soften the butter by putting it near a fire and add all the ingredients one by one: the cookies, the hazelnuts, one yolk, the two kinds of cocoa, and the liquor.

If the dough is too hard, add some more liquor; if it’s too soft, add some more cookies.

Wrap the dough in form of a salami and wrap it in grease-proof paper. Leave it in the fridge at least for a night.

Take it out of the fridge half an hour in advence and serve in slices with a glass of Asti or Moscato Passito.