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  • Last night I had friends over and I wanted them to experience a very typical Italian dish from Modena: Tigelle with Cunza.

    Tigelle are a flat bread made with a bit of animal fat (pork) in it and baking powder, so slightly softer and tastier than regular flat breads. Not the point here.

    Cunza, aka, Modenese Pesto, is a mix of

    • 2/3 of Lardo of Colonnata (cured fat from the pork back)
    • 1/3 of Guanciale (cured pork cheek)
    • Fresh rosemary
    • Fresh garlic
    • Salt and pepper

    Chop the meats as finely as you can and then mix with chopped rosemary, crushed garlic, salt and pepper. Mash the whole thing as much as you can (soreness or boredom, whichever occurs first). Let rest in the fridge.

    Serve the hot flat bread in small pieces with the Cunza in a bowl for people to share, cold out of the fridge. The heat will melt it as you spread it and unleash the flavours.
    Additionally can be topped with freshly shaved parmesan and freshly ground black pepper.

    It is as fat and unhealthy as it is described above, and you will feel guilty for days after, but is just so fucking good!

    I didn't take pictures of mine, but it looked similar to this, only open with parmesan and black pepper on top.

  • Fats are fine, as long as they aren't trans fats. Have you had smoked colonnata?

    Oh and guanciale is lush, and a true adage that the flavour is in the fat.

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