Porchetta

Description: [por-ket-tuh] Porchetta, a succulent pork roast with an extremely flavorful herb and garlic taste enjoyed by Tuscans since the days of the Roman Empire. Porchetta is marinated with natural Tuscan herbs (rosemary, pepper, laurel, sage, and juniper) to obtain a unique tenderness infused with the most authentic essence of the herbs.

Porchetta is a savoury, fatty, and moist boneless pork roast of Italian culinary tradition. The body of the pig is gutted, deboned, arranged carefully with layers of stuffing, meat, fat, and skin, then rolled, spitted, and roasted, traditionally over wood. Porchetta is usually heavily salted in addition to being stuffed with garlic, rosemary, fennel, or other herbs, often wild. Porchetta has been selected by the Italian Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali as a prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale (“traditional agricultural-alimentary product”, one of a list of traditional Italian foods held to have cultural relevance).