Happy Salami Season!!!! It’s that time of the year when I go all salamied out because Purim, and it’s been a Busy In Brooklyn tradition for years now!
It all started with this thing I read about salami being hung like the evil haman in the Purim story and a tradition was born to trash up salami every which way in true Purim spirit.
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve definitely heard of my viral DRUNKEN HASSELBACK SALAMI that’s become a staple in Jewish homes and deli counters worldwide, and the ever popular SALAMI BABKA that made waves in recent years.
I’m always dreaming up new salami ideas, and this year I took inspiration from Chef Erick Vargas Bromberg (@evb_nyc), formerly of one of my favorite kosher restaurants of all time, Boru Boru.
Erick served up salami nduja at his most recent job at Gruit (he has since left) and I was intrigued! Nduja (pronounce en-doo-ya) is a spreadable sausage, traditionally made with the nonkosher meat (if you know what I mean!) and calabrian chilies, but Eric used salami and gochujang (Korean chili paste), layered with smoked navel fat. I’m not usually a pâté person but it was GOOD and it made me see salami in a whole new light!
It ain’t easy doing something new and exciting with salami every year so I was grateful for the inspo! I made my own version which is not too spicy, a bit smoky, salty and all around deeeelicious.
I recommend serving with crusty bread, crackers, lots of pickles and plenty of wine, of course. Happy Purim!!
Salami Nduja
14oz. Abeles & Heymann salami, roughy chopped
1/3 cup sundried tomatoes packed in oil
2 tbsp oil from the jar of sundried tomatoes
1 tbsp smoked paprika
1 tbsp miso paste
2 tbsp chili garlic sauce (such as Huy Fong) or sriracha, to taste
Method:
Add all ingredients to the bowl of a food processor and blend until smooth and creamy. Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
Other Salami Recipes:
last year: salami tarte tatin
two years ago: salami potato latkes
three years ago: salami babka
four years ago: salami quiche
five years ago: beer battered salami chips with beer mustard
six years ago: drunken hasselback salami
seven years ago: salami chips
Any alternative to using a food processor or blender? I’m sure most kosher homes don’t have one.
I’m surprised since so many people make potato kugel with their food processor. You definitely some sort of blender for it.
Mmmm……..I can’t wait to try this next week. You’re the best.I been addicted to your blogs, lately, everything just looks so good.
That’s so sweet thank you!
This is sad. First of all, it is not Nduja, it is ‘Nduja pronounced: nˈduːja, not en-doo-ya. It is not a salami, it’s a salumi (your recipe of course is neither of those things). It is one of the only products from the poorest region of Italy and the name itself is from dialect of that region, Calabria. Just like Prosciutto, ‘Nduja is ‘Nduja because of the particular type of meat used and the specific roasted peppers used from the beautiful, Vibo Valentia.
Calabria for hundred of years has faced racism from the richer north, including by prominent northerners up to the 60’s characterising Calabrians as less evolved humans somewhere close to cave men.
The region is plagued by crime because there is a lack of industry and a lack of jobs.
What Calabria has is its culture, its food and its language and seeing one of our biggest prides, the mighty ‘Nduja being redefined by whatever ingredients the author feels might taste good, is not only insulting but it is cultural appropriation. It is cultural superiority. It is telling us that our cultural practice and the products of that practice have no meaning and can just be redefined by an outsider.
If you like ‘nduja great. Tell people the history and tell people struggles of those who made it. But do not redefine it for us and do not tell us how to say it. Please take a cultural sensitivity course and repost.
I appreciate your setting the record straight on the origins of Nduja.
Che intendo ‘insultare’ non insulatare’ a quello ND idioto.
Chanie the last comments mine defend you and judge the idiot. I can tell you that no real decent Calabrian would be such a dick.
I have a long history with Italy and the south and my fiance of 5 years is from several large famous families in Sicily and his grandfather was considered king and amgelnof Napoli also alongside Mario Merolla his best friend and close associate. Over 3000 people went and wept to the funeral procession in Palermo of my fiancee Grandfather. Sometimes when things are at worst or very too much hard he speaks to me from non physical place, usually same night or day after he visits my fiance his grandson in his sleep. South Italians are mysterious and superstitious, even after death!
Love your blog its fabulous, are you from Jewish or Italian roots?
Katy as above