Prosciutto or Uncooked Hams

Name: Prosciutto or Uncooked Hams
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: virgin olive oil; 1 mild white onion, finely sliced and blanched; 12 slices strong wood-fired bread; ½ cup (60 g/2 oz) pitted and diced black olives; 12 chervil sprigs; 500 g (1 lb) prosciutto (Parma ham); 500 g (1 lb) prosciutto (Parma ham)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fine Family Cooking

By Tony Bilson

Published 1994

About

The first rule one must obey with prosciutto (Parma ham) is to have it sliced at the delicatessen. Unless you have an electric slicing machine at home, or a spiked ham holder and special slicing knife, there is no way that you will be able to slice it as thinly as the delicatessen.

Ingredients

12 slices strong wood-fired bread
virgin olive oil
1 mild white onion, finely sliced and blanched

Oceania
Australia
Starter

Method

To serve the prosciutto is simple. Lay the slices on a plate, grind pepper over them and serve with fresh figs, melon or nashi pears (Chinese pears). To gild the lily, sprinkle the ham with virgin olive oil and garnish with small Niçoise olives and chervil sprigs.