Salumi with Peaches and Watercress

Salumi with Peaches and Watercress

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Salumi refers to all dry-cured Italian-style meats and sausages. Great chefs such as Tom Colicchio, Lidia Bastianich, Mario Batali, and Paul Bertolli are introducing them to a new generation of Americans, who may not realize what an incredible variety is available. Thanks to these chefs for bringing this artisan tradition back to the culinary fore. What an inspiration! One summer when I traveled in Italy, I was served salumi with peaches just about everywhere I went and although it was a combination I had never before tried, it made perfect and delicious sense and stayed with me after I returned to Chicago.

Ingredients

8 thin slices Finochionna salumi
12 thin slices Tuscan salumi
12 thin slices Sulmitti pepperoni
2 ripe peaches or nectarines
1/2 cup olive oil, plus more for drizzling
Juice of 1 orange
Juice of 1 lemon
2 bunches watercress
1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint
1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
Kosher salt and cracked black pepper
1 ounce pecorino cheese, shaved

Directions

  1. 1. On a serving platter, arrange the salumi and pepperoni slices in an overlapping pattern.
  2. 2. Without peeling the peaches, remove the pits, slice the fruit into thin wedges, and put in a bowl. Add the olive oil, orange and lemon juice, watercress, mint, and basil and toss gently.Season to taste with salt and pepper and toss again.
  3. 3. Spoon the salad next to the salumi. Drizzle both the salumi and salad with olive oil, garnish with the cheese, and serve.

Tags

    Salad Cheese Fruit Pork Side Quick & Easy Parmesan Lemon Orange Nectarine Peach Mint Basil Meat Sausage Summer Healthy Prosciutto Watercress Wheat/Gluten-Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free No Sugar Added
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