Bollito misto

Bollito misto (Italian for "mixed- Boiled " ) is a traditional, lush potted meat from northern Italy. It consists of various types of meat and raw sausages, in part depending on the region of varying composition that are cooked and served with their typical sauce.

In Piedmont, it is together with Italian green sauce (salsa verde ) as Bollito misto con salsa verde known in Emilia -Romagna is the Bollito misto con mostarda with the classic Italian Mostarda ( a spicy sauce on the basis of fruits and sugar, with spiced mustard oil) served.

After Piedmont kind he usually consists of beef, veal, tongue and chicken, and pork sausage ( pork sausage ), stuffed pig's trotter ( Zampone ) and root vegetables. To prepare beef tongue, sausage and pig's trotters and beef are pre-cooked separately in salted water. Later come to beef and veal, chicken and vegetables - after all, tongue, sausage and pig's trotters. Depending on the recipe, also belong calf's head, bone marrow and cabbage to the ingredients. Together they are cooked to an end. The resulting strong broth is served in advance. Meat and sausage cut into thin slices, cut the chicken with salsa verde and everything, a vinegar -oil vinaigrette with herbs and hard-boiled and finely chopped eggs, served.

As a side dish to meat spicy pickled mustard fruits are popular.