If you’re a cold cuts lover the Musetto - Salumificio Lovison is absolutely a must. It is a typical Italian specialty particularly fit for the Christmas period too, as it reminds of a cotechino but with some substantial differences, starting from the hand made hot processing right after the butchering, one of the elements that differentiates the Salumificio Lovison. The Musetto Lovison, as the name suggests, is only made up of the parts of the pig’s face (cheek, throat, tongue, skin) and this makes it unique, also due to the registered mark, indeed it is the only product that can be called with this name. The hours of boiling will be enough for the Musetto Lovison to be the main character of you Christmas (and not only) lunches and dinners.

We know, seeing Christmas products advertisements already in October can be kinda stressing, but our opinion about Christmas specialities is: if it is good, why not eating it all year long? Or more than two weeks per year at least. This is the reason why we’ve decided to make the Christmas typical Italian products of our catalogue already available: panettone, pandoro, musetto, cotechino, torroni and many others Made in Italy by excellent producers as Fiasconaro, Corsini Biscotti, Salumificio Lovison, Macelleria Mastra Alebardi, Torronificio Barbero with the best raw materials and hand made processes with make them high quality, good and, relatively to the category, genuine products.

As we've just told you about our Christmas products and special Christmas boxes, so we're giving you one of the most famous and typical Italian Christmas recipes: the cotechino with lentils. In this case we're using the Musetto - Salumificio Lovison, which is a very special kind of cotechino famous among all the Italian gastronomy passionates and chefs. Many things makes this product different from the average cotechino, from the meat which come from 100% Friulian porks bred without GMO animal feeds , to the part of the pork used (cheeks, throat, shin and rind) and the secret mixture of spices which make it both tasty and delicate. Ingredients: Musetto - Salumificio Lovison, Black lentils Sicily - Azienda Agricola Agrirape, onion, carrot, celery, vegetable broth, Organic extra virgin olive oil - Adamo, bay leaf, salt, pepper. First, starting from cold water, make the musetto boiling for 3 hours. Meanwhile chop the onion, carrot and celery, put them in a wide frying pan with some evo oil and make them stir fry adding the lentils, covering all with vegetable broth and make it cook for 1 hour and a half adding a bay leaf. When the lentils will be ready season with salt and pepper, cut the musetto into slices and put them in the pan with the lentils.

Musetto - Salumificio Lovison is the exclusive product by Lovison Friulian agricultural company, this specialty was invented 110 years ago by the company's founder Agostino Lovison. But the reason that distinguish theirs from other great quality producers's too is the use of the noble parts of the pork head from only Friulian pork meat bred using ogm free animal feeds and a secret mixture of spices among which cinnamon,coriander,nutmeg,cloves and pepper. The great Italian 2 michelin stars awarded chef Carlo Cracco has introduced a recipe with the Musetto Lovison in his restaurant menù: Ravioli stuffed with Musetto with vegetable mostarda. Ingredients: For the pasta: 1 kg of 00 flour, 8 egg yolks, 1 whole egg, 20g of Italian extra virgin olive oil For the stuffing: 200g of Musetto Lovison, 80g of stewed savoy mash (make the savoy brownish with 50g of onion, pour with some water and salt, cook fro 1 hour at least. blend with the mixer adding the Musetto Lovison, season with salt and pepper. For the mostarda: 80g of vegetables mostarda (cut into pieces), 80g of celeriac julienne cut. With the flour, eggs, evo oil and salt make an Italian fresh pasta. Roll out the dough, put some stuffing and give the cappelletto shape. Cook the ravioli for 3 minutes in boiling salted water and then stir fry with some calf juice. Put in the plate together with mostarda, celeriac and serve it.