What is "porchetta"

n. A savory and moist boneless pork roast, part of Italian cuisine

Porchetta is a savoury, fatty, and moist boneless pork roast of Italian culinary tradition. The body of the pig is gutted, deboned, arranged carefully with layers of stuffing, meat, fat, and skin, then rolled, spitted, and roasted, traditionally over wood. Porchetta is usually heavily salted in addition to being stuffed with garlic, rosemary, fennel, or other herbs, often wild. Porchetta has been selected by the Italian Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari e Forestali as a prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale (“traditional agricultural-alimentary product”, one of a list of traditional Italian foods held to have cultural relevance).

Porchetta is a surname found in Italy and North America. In Italy, the largest Porchetta family hails from the southern province of Campobasso. Immigration brought the Porchetta name to North America in the early to mid-20th century. Predominately located on the east coast with the largest numbers in Montreal, Canada and the New York-New Jersey area; the Porchetta name is scattered across North America with families as far west as Vancouver, BC in Canada and Arizona in the United States.

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Porchetta is a pork roast in Italian cuisine.

Porchetta may also refer to:

• Porchetta (family name), a surname of Italian origin
• La Porchetta, an Italian restaurant franchise in Australia and New Zealand