Spianata means "flattened", and this salame is a famous Calabrese sausage characterised by the inclusion of fiery peperoncino. Once the salame skin is filled with finely minced lean pork, lardo, salt and chilli peppers, it is squashed to give it its trademark flat spianata form.

Serve as you would any salame, but go easy - those chillies are wonderfully HOT!