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Similar Loukaniko, Anari cheese, Zivania, Sheftalia, Halloumi | ||
Cured pork tenderloin is found in various cuisines in Mediterranean Europe and South America.
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It is typically salted or brined then dried or smoked.
Spain
In Spanish cuisine, lomo embuchado is a dry-cured meat made from a pork tenderloin, sometimes called lomo for short. It is similar to cecina, but with pork instead of beef.
Italy
In Italian cuisine, there are many variants of lonza stagionata. Capocolla is very similar, but made from the neck muscle rather than the tenderloin, and often stuffed into a casing.
Corsica
In Corsican cuisine, lonzu is cured loin.
Cyprus
In Cypriot cuisine, lountza (Greek: λούντζα) is brined, marinated in red wine, dried, and smoked.
It may be sold immediately after smoking, or aged. As it ages, it becomes harder and more strongly flavored. It may be spiced with coriander.
Lountza may be served cooked or uncooked with alcoholic drinks such as zivania or wine. Grilled lountza served with other Cypriot foods such as halloumi and kefalotyri cheese often appears in meze platters. Sandwiches made out of grilled lountza and halloumi are favorite fast food snacks in Cyprus.
Greece
In Mykonos and Syros, Greece louza is preserved pork loin.
Etymology
All of the names above come directly or indirectly from Latin lumbus 'loin'.