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Cooked Meats

Cooked salumi are meat preparations that undergo cooking during production, with prosciutto cotto as one familiar example.

Family
Cooked salumi
Example
Prosciutto cotto
Example’s cut
Boneless pork leg

A cooked ham example

ASSICA describes prosciutto cotto as a boneless pork leg that is salted and then cooked. Its pale pink slice has a border of fat. The example explains one member of this broad family; other cooked meat preparations have their own cuts and methods.

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