Salami Rose Charcuterie Platter
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
- 500g/1.1lb thinly sliced salami in regular and spicy or piccante
- 24 slices thinly sliced Provolone cheese
- 4 stems green spring onion
- 100g/3.5ozs bocconcini
- Baby spinach leaves
- Fresh herbs for decorating
- Small slice of capsicum for "ribbon"
Step 1 - Start with a slice of salami and place fold it over the edge of the champagne flute but making there just a bit more inside the glass.
Step 2 -Then overlap with other salami slices (around 4-5) to form the first layer. Then place a second layer but this time fold the salami over halfway so that equal parts are on the inside and outside of the glass. Then repeat making another overlapped layer.
Step 3 -Then finish with the last layer of overlapping salami slices. It's done when you can't fit any more salami down the middle of the flute.
Step 4 -Turn the glass over and voila, your salami rose is ready!
Step 5 - To make the cheese roses, cut each slice of provolone in half so that you have 8 half moons of provolone cheese.
Step 6 - Place them in a straight line slightly overlapping each other. Roll up the cheese from one end to the other to form a rose.
Step 7 - Arrange 4 green onion stems at the bottom of a large chopping board or in a box and place the salami and cheese roses like a bouquet of flowers on top. Add fresh fresh herbs, baby spinach leaves, edible flowers and bocconcini to fill any gaps. I used a slice of capsicum to make a "ribbon" on top of the green onion.
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The day I made this was a bit of a mess all around. We were meeting with his family for his mother's birthday. I woke up and Mr NQN had gone for a run and I awoke to the rustling of Teddy and Milo on the bed who were positioned in guard mode. I opened my eyes but one eye was so mysteriously swollen that I couldn't open it. Why couldn't this happen on a day when I didn't have to go out? I have plenty of days where I'm just in the kitchen cooking and writing recipes!
Then I noticed a technical glitch on the blog. Not only did that day's story not appear on the home page but the story's images were all broken. So between icing my eye I was trying to figure out what had gone wrong and I needed to make this charcuterie bouquet for a beach picnic with the Elliotts. It was all going wrong at the same time.
I managed to get the swelling down on my eye down to a manageable level. While it was still red, I didn't look like I had been in a boxing match. And after a frantic back and forth text with Mr NQN I fixed the blog's issues and I went about making this charcuterie salami and cheese rose bouquet. That was one saving grace. Each rose takes around a minute to make (it takes longer to separate the pieces of salami quite honestly!) and each cheese rose takes about the same. The bouquet was so easy to assemble that it felt like I had cheated the system somehow and yet it looked quite impressive too.
I made half a dozen salami roses and half a dozen provolone cheese roses as I thought it would cover the meat eaters. I thought that this might be too much salami or meat for the Elliotts but I was wrong. The salami roses were taken straight away. They were so easy to take and one salami rose and one cheese rose was the perfect low carb lunch with some baby spinach. Mr NQN remarked that if I had put out 60 slices of salami on a platter (as that was how many I used) then it may not have gotten eaten but having it in rose form meant everyone could easily take a salami rose and eat it. It was such delicious salami that everyone murmured happily and I think I could have even made a dozen of these salami roses!
So tell me Dear Reader, have you ever made salami roses? Have you ever had a day where everything goes wrong?