Cotechino Modena

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Cooked and Ready.
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Cotechino Modena or Cotechino di Modena, also sometimes spelled cotecchino or coteghino, is a fresh sausage made from pork, fatback, and pork rind, and comes from Modena, Italy, where it has PGI status. Zampone Modena is closely related and also has PGI status.

As Served with Polenta and Lentils.
As Served with Polenta and Lentils.

Cotechino dates back to around 1511 to Mirandola, where, whilst besieged, the people had to find a way to preserve meat and use the less tender cuts, so made the cotechino.

By the 1700s it had become more popular than the yellowish sausage had been around at the time, and in the 19th century was in mass production in and around the area.

Cotechino is often served with Lentils or Cannellini beans with a sauce alongside Polenta, especially around the New Year.


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