Chocolate Salami - Salame de Chocolate

Posted on October 17, 2007 
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Say, “Salami” here in Portugal and the first thing that comes to mind is chocolate - “Chocolate Salami”. In most cultures, salami is something salty and smoked, but here we love our sweets so much we’ve even made one out of chocolate, what else?! If you’ve visited Portugal before, you may have seen these delicious treats in bakeries.

Chocolate Salami Portuguese Style

Commercial versions, are usually wrapped in foil, quite thick and large, more like a slice of cake than anything resembling an actual salami. And in some places you’ll find them coated with sugar — what can we say, other than, Portuguese like their sweets, really sweet.


The semi sweet chocolate, roasted almonds and Port help give this recipe a more balanced sweetness, but if you like your sweets really sweet you can substitute the semi sweet chocolate with a sweeter dark chocolate.

Chocolate Salami Ingredients

Chocolate Salami
source: own

3 ½ cups good quality dark chocolate (semi-sweet)
4 Egg yolks
2 rolls of Tia Maria cookies
1 Tbsp. unsalted butter
¼ cup sweetened condensed milk
½ cup roasted sliced almonds
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
4 Tbsp. Port wine

Instructions: Preparing your mixture

  1. Break cookies in into large bowl and sprinkle with 1/2 of Port wine, set aside.
  2. Melt chocolate in microwave or medium bowl using Bain Marie method (Bain Marie: bowl over steam bath, do not let bottom of bowl touch water). *Note remove chocolate from Bain Marie as soon as it melts, do not let chocolate over heat. If you test the melted chocolate with your finger it should just be warm to the touch. If too hot let cool until warm to the touch. If chocolate is too hot when adding following ingredients, egg yokes could cook producing something resembling chocolate scrambled eggs. So make certain chocolate is melted but just warm to the touch before moving to step 2.
  3. When chocolate has melted, add butter, sweetened condensed milk, egg yolks, and stir well to incorporate. Mixture will start to thicken into a dough like consistency and pull away from bowl
  4. Add chocolate mixture to broken cookies
  5. Add vanilla, salt, rest of port wine and 1/2 of almonds, mix well until incorporated.

Instructions: Molding the Salami

  1. Lay out a long sheet of wax paper of 28in/70cm length.
  2. Roll the mixture onto the wax paper and shape into a salami shape length wise to the paper.
  3. Mixture will be manageable by hand, now you can mold salami to the desired length and thickness. The length and thickness depends on taste, I would suggest somewhere between 7-10cm/3-4in - in diameter. This will enable nice size slices of approximately 3cm/1in, in thickness when done.
  4. Sprinkle remaining almonds around salami and spread out as evenly as possible.
  5. Bring salami to one side of paper and start to roll paper around log gently but firmly, once completely rolled, twist ends and refrigerate flat for at least 2 hours.
  6. Take salami out of refrigerator 20min before cutting and serving.

    Note: Salami will be very firm when cutting slices, so its best to take it out of the refrigerator 20min before serving to facilitate cutting. Entire salami can be cut into slices and refrigerated to make it easier to serve later. Or if entertaining, salami can be presented whole and guests can cut their own slices, just like a real salami.

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Chocolate Salami

Personally, I love my chocolate salami with a steaming café, or with a nice glass of port. With all the amazing coffee and ports available here, no wonder chocolate salami has become so popular!

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5 Responses to “Chocolate Salami - Salame de Chocolate”

  1. Port Wine - Portuguese Wine - Branco Lagrima on October 19th, 2007 3:29 pm

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  2. Janet on December 29th, 2007 4:20 am

    I want to make this recipe but can’t figure out what Tia Maaria cookies are or figure out how to substitute for “two rolls” without a weight - thanks for your help, I’d like to make it for tomorrow night’s desert - Janet

  3. Eddie on December 29th, 2007 4:06 pm

    <p>Hi Janet,</p>
    <p>Tia Maria cookies are sold in most of the larger grocery stores, but if you can’t find them then an Arrow Root type cookie can be substituted. If you can’t find the cookies in tubes, then the equivalent weight measurement would be around 250g/9oz/1cup-crushed cookies. Hope that helps, let me know how it goes and enjoy!</p>

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