Pork skin rolls

A hot dish particularly appropriate for winter containing lard

A hot dish particularly appropriate for winter containing lard, a typical ingredient of southern Italian cooking.







Preparation and ingredients:

In melted lard brown 3 cloves of garlic, 2 finely chopped chilli peppers and a sprig of parsley.
Gently boil the thin pork skin strips for 10 minutes.
Remove and cover them with the fried mixture and finely sliced lard (200g in all).
Roll up the pork skin strips (cotenne) and secure them with toothpicks.
Prepare a simple sauce with tomatoes in a pan large enough to hold the rolls.
Cook the rolls in tomato sauce over a high flame.

It is a local custom in Basilicata to serve these rolls as a sauce for homemade flour and water pasta.