Hi r/Italy!
Greetings from Peru, I recently got this as a gift and I’m never tried before, to me it looks similar to Jamon iberico but probably is different in flavor. I read that this is supposed to be eaten raw but I was wondering what other ways do you recommend I eat this. Can I add it to a pizza? A salad? A pasta? Thanks a lot.
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Usually it’s eaten alone or in cold sandwiches, or you can make appetizers with other non-cooked, savory stuff (bread, cheese, olives etc).
If you put in on cooked food (e.g. pizza), you need to put it on at the end **after** the pizza has been cooked and is out of the oven, because it’s always best **not** to cook prosciutto crudo – if you cook it loses its consistence, the fat melts and the only flavor remaining is a very salty one.
we don’t usually add it to pasta or salads. You can put it on a pizza but only after it’s out of the oven. It’s perfectly safe to eat as is, don’t worry
With cubed melon (musk melon, the orange one with “webbed” exterior)
you can do a lot with it actually, i personally do not recomend cooking it (there’s ham for that), but aside from that, you can definitly put on pizza and many other things like focaccia, you can make a sandwich (probably the most common use here really), you could probably put in a salad and although i’ve never put in on pasta you could probably invent something decent with it, another popular way it’s eaten here in italy is with a slice of melon or even alone as apetizer
If you want to go classic Italian you can put it in a sandwich, [specifically a “panino” called “rosetta”](https://www.mercatomoderno.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Pane-Rosetta.jpeg). Just the rosetta with the prosciutto inside.
Alternatively, it can go on pizza, usually a pizza with mozzarella, cherry tomatoes (or tomato sauce: i prefer the latter but the original recipe has the cherry tomatoes), arugula and grana cheese pieces (and prosciutto): it’s called [Primavera](https://www.silviocicchi.com/pizzachef/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/p-evid2-672×372.jpg) pizza.
Another classic is [“prosciutto e melone”](https://staticcookist.akamaized.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2022/08/Prosciutto-e-melone-foto-finale-1-1659435444128.jpg), just the prosciutto on sliced musk melon. Used most in summer and as before the main dish.
I don’t know any pasta with it, maybe with a sweet vegetable sauce as zucchini sauce, but it’s not a usual thing.
add it to bread and cheese
yea raw, it’s like jamon iberico, just more salty. We eat it in sandwiches, with mozzarella, with melon slices and on “grissini” (they are dry sticks of bread, very long and thin, you can wrap the thing around them and it kinda looks like a handle)
absorb it through your skin.
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Edit for OP: It’s white thick pizza with crunchy crust (check pizza bianca romana, but a nice sourdough bread is good aswell) , filled with some ripe figs (peeled) and prosciutto crudo.
If you’ve never tasted it before I recommend initially eating it on its own, then eventually try pairing it with bread, focaccia, cheese
First: if you cook it, then expect it to be extra salty. There is a reason if You order a pizza and they add it at the end when the pizza is ready. That said you can just make a sandwich with some pickled cucumbers (well using Speck instead of Crudo would be more appropriate)! This is not “fresh” Prosciutto Crudo, so it will not be particularly “sweet”, it will be more on the salty side. It is very common to eat it with some Melon, just cut the melon and eat them togheter, the sweetness of the melon and the salty of the Crudo are perfect togheter. 🙂
eat it raw or with some bread.
Don’t put it in the pasta please
It is similar to jamon. Do whatever you want with it (eaten alone or paired with bread being the most sensible thing). Just don’t cook it.
With your mouth…
You could use a fork but I usually do it with my hands
Just eat it row, with some bread.
But do not expect miracles of taste from THAT prosciutto, it’s just a poor quality one, made from an industrial maker.
Usually used for sandwiches, or pizza but only after cooked. Someone also eats it with melon
On bread with parmigiano reggiano, or on melon slices.
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With melon
You already received a lot of good suggestions, I’d like to add you should not worry about that white dots, as they are perfectly normal and usually appear when the prosciutto is very seasoned 🙂
With melon
Just with some bread, French baguette as example. Do not cook it! It’s already ready as it be.
Whatever you do:
Do not cook it, do not mix it with other salumi. The big freaky sandwiches many of the Italian-Americans refer to as Italian panini are a crime here.
Well, it’s not exactly raw, it’s dry-cured ham. I’m not a big fan but I like it on pizza sometimes. Just don’t cook it or even heat it, because it will taste too salty and will change its texture. It’s good to eat alone or in a sandwich, especially focaccia bread.
“Crudo” means “raw”, so don’t cook it 🙂
Try to put them in your mouth
The top is with melon !
And Spritz of course!