Sweet and Tangy Baked Salami, also commonly called hasselback salami, is a crowd pleaser food, no questions about it! Kosher salami is just so good that you will never have leftovers of this baked salami dish. Serve this recipe as an easy salami appetizer or as a main dish alongside coleslaw and potato salad. This recipe is so good that we even have a kosher for Passover variation! This recipe is kosher, dairy free, and gluten free.
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Kosher Hasselback Salami Is Easy To Make
This kosher salami recipe tastes like it should be a lot harder to make than it is. Any time that sweet and sour are combined in the right way the flavors take on a beautiful complexity. Making salami with this recipe is easy because you just make your cuts, mix the sauce and bake. Done in under 90 minutes! Once you learn how easy it is to cook salami this way, you will never look at your favorite kosher deli meat the same way again.
How to Make the Best Sweet and Tangy Baked Salami Step by Step
Step 1 - Slice the salami
Slice the salami diagonally making all of the cuts in the same direction. Use a soft salami for this and not a hard salami. This is because you will need to be able to slice it easily.
Flip it 90º and do the same thing horizontally. This creates a criss cross pattern that allows the sauce to seep in. I call these the salami grooves. Slice about ¾ of the way through leaving it connected at the bottom.
Step 2 - Mix the sauce
Add the apple cider vinegar, apricot jelly, and dijon mustard (or Passover mustard) together into a bowl and whisk or stir vigorously with a fork.
Step 3 - Pour on the sauce
Place the salami into a baking dish and pour about ⅔ of the sauce over the top. Work the sauce into the salami grooves making sure that as much of it seeps in as possible. You may want to spoon the sauce back over the top a few times.
Step 4 - Oven Roast the Kosher Salami
Place into the oven uncovered for 15 minutes. Spoon the sauce over the top a few times. It will be thicker and darker this time but trust me do not skip this step. Put it back into the oven for 15 minutes. Pour the rest of the sauce over the top for the final 15 minutes. During the final minutes while the oven roasted the sauce on top will finish breaking down and harden slightly. Biting into that crunchy, chewy, sweet condensed sauce crust is the best part of the kosher baked salami recipe.
Sweet and Tangy Baked Kosher Salami Recipe FAQ
Yes. Salami freezes very well. The trick is to make sure that it is well wrapped before you put it into the freezer. This helps to avoid freezer burn. Start by putting the salami into an airtight plastic bag and squeezing all of the air out. Then wrap in plastic wrap and then aluminum foil. No freezer burn getting in there. It should last about 6 months in the freezer.
Over the last century, kosher beef salami has cemented itself as one of the premier kosher cold cuts found in kosher delis. Originally, salami was a cured Italian deli meat made from donkey meat which is not kosher. Leave it to a group of Jewish foodies to take something that was not kosher and make a beef salami kosher equivalent that is super tasty! You will be hard pressed not to find a kosher deli that does not have kosher salami as one of its best sellers.
This depends on where you live. For us at Yay Kosher, we have access to some of the world's best kosher salami right down the street. If you live in New York, Los Angeles, or Miami then chances are that you also have a local provider of kosher salami or you order from Chicago. If you are not in one of the four major markets for kosher food, you can order kosher salami online or find some of the national kosher brands in your local grocery store.
Tips and Suggestions
In my house the salami barely makes it out of the oven before it is gone. Here are some other ideas on ways to enjoy this recipe:
- Serve on top of salad or pasta. Cut the salami into cubes along all of the diagonal cut lines and serve it over pasta or even a salad.
- Make a sandwich. Cut thin slices of the salami and make a salami sandwich. Serve along side a cup of the marinade as a sauce. Thin out the sauce with a little bit of water for a mouth watering au jus.
- Grilled salami recipe. Slice the salami into cubes and toss in the sauce. Grill the salami cubes in a cast iron skillet. Pour the extra sauce on in the last 2 minutes.
- Salami chips. Slice the salami into circles that are about ⅛ inch thick. Grill the slices on a cast iron skillet until crispy on both sides. Use the marinade as a dipping sauce.
- Sweet and Sour Salami - use our recipe for McDonalds Copycat Sweet and Sour Sauce (or our Passover Sweet and Sour Sauce) instead of the sauce for this recipe. It has a similar yet totally different flavor!
- Use this in other recipes. Serve this as the deli meat on one of our other homemade salami recipes such as Kosher Salami Flatbread.
📖 Recipe
Sweet and Tangy Baked Salami
Equipment
- Sharp kitchen knife
Ingredients
- 1 salami (2lb)
- ¾ cup orange marmalade or apricot jelly
- ⅓ cup dijon mustard or Passover mustard
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon crushed red pepper flakes optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375º F.
- Slice the entire salami diagonally. The incisions should not go all the way to the bottom as you want the salami to remain intact. Leave about ½ inch between slices. Repeat this process making a criss cross design along the salami.
- Whisk together the marmalade or jelly, mustard, vinegar, and red pepper flakes. This will create the sauce.
- Pour the sauce over the top of the salami. Spoon the sauce back over the top several times. Open the criss crossed incisions while pouring to insure that the sauce gets to the inside of the salami.
- Bake for 15 minutes uncovered. Spoon the sauce in the pan over the top of the salami. This should be easier than it was before as the salami has had a chance to open up while baking.
- Bake for another 15 minutes, spoon sauce over the top again.
- Pour the remainder of the sauce over the top and bake for a final 15 minutes.
- Slice and enjoy!
Notes
Tips and Suggestions
In my house the salami barely makes it out of the oven before it is gone. Here are some other ideas on ways to enjoy this recipe:- Serve on top of salad or pasta. Cut the salami into cubes along all of the diagonal cut lines and serve it over pasta or even a salad.
- Make a sandwich. Cut thin slices of the salami and make a salami sandwich. Serve along side a cup of the marinade as a sauce. Thin out the sauce with a little bit of water for a mouth watering au jus.
- Grilled salami recipe. Slice the salami into cubes and toss in the sauce. Grill the salami cubes in a cast iron skillet. Pour the extra sauce on in the last 2 minutes.
- Salami chips. Slice the salami into circles that are about ⅛ inch thick. Grill the slices on a cast iron skillet until crispy on both sides. Use the marinade as a dipping sauce.
- Use this in other recipes. Serve this as the deli meat on one of our other homemade salami recipes such as Kosher Salami Flatbread.
Meira Padowitz
Yum!
Ben
Thanks Meira!