In the changing room after football training my friend Marco sneakily pulled out a parcel wrapped in grease-proof paper. I watched him as he surreptitiously popped a chunk of delicious looking chocolately goo into his mouth. Having run around like a head-less chicken for the last hour and a half and not eaten since lunch I had to find out if there was any more where that came from.
Marco’s eyes lit up as he introduced me to Nonna Cadi’s chocolate salami. When he was little his grandmother was always worrying about him, Marco told me, because she thought he was about to fall over and hurt himself – ‘Cadi, cadi!’, ‘You’re going to fall!’, she would shout. He was a bit like that on the football pitch to be honest.
Here is the recipe he gave me.
Ingredients for 4 people
Digestive biscuits – 200g broken up
Whole egg – 1
Egg white – 1 whipped
Sugar – 100g
Cocoa powder – 50g
Butter – 180g
Liquor like Amaretto or Gran Marnier- to preference
First beat the whole egg, then mix in the sugar and the melted butter. Now add the broken up biscuits and finally fold in the whipped egg white.
Carefully lay the mixture out onto a large piece of aluminium foil. Roll it up into a salami shape and put it in the freezer. When you want to eat it, remove from freezer and served sliced.
