Sliced Beef Pastourmas 500g

Pastourmas is a highly seasoned, air-cured cold cut from beef or veal that is hugely popular all over Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Armenia. Initially, the beef leg is cured with salt, then massaged with a thick rusty red paste of fenugreek, garlic, cumin, paprika and other spices before the meat is hung out to dry. It has a distinctive warming flavour and a strong spicy aroma. Still made by the Saribogias family, who first brought their recipe to the village of Adana in Greece in 1890, this hand-reared meat pastourma is very special. In 1938 the family settled in Drama, at the foot of Mount Falakro, where they began their cold cuts business, now proudly in its fourth generation.