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Among the specialties based on chili the first one place is due to N'Duja of Spilinga, a devilish cured salami, smoked, as someone has written a "red Nutella", but instead of nuts there is pork and small amounts of fat obtained from the girth, the shoulder and the thigh of the pig and red chili dried instead of cocoa. It is an ancient, simple and ingenious recipe. It is a real magic that changes poverty into wealth, taste, color and aroma. It is considered as one of the best sausages of Italy. Historically, it was born as the food of poor people who intended for the consumption of less affluent social classes that draws its strength from the need to use the remaining part of the pork that remained after intended to landowners the more valuable parties. The geniality of these social classes has succeeded in giving life, through the wise choice of the ingredients of our territory, to an alchemical recipe, that has created an extraordinary delicacy. The secret of the flavor of the N'duja does not depend only on the choice of raw materials but especially by chili pepper that are of two types and are locally produced. The pipereju is long and thin, red and spicy, another round in shape, whereas tunduliju is sweeter and fleshy. The relationship, skillfully measured, between the two types of chili pepper is not defined but respects the secret of single recipes and modulates the sensorial differences of the various products. In the past, N'duja was used only spread on bread. Today the most famous sausage of Calabria is made also in glass jars and used in various ways, to flavor pasta, to reinforce a sauté, to give a spicy and tasty push to a plate of meat.
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