Salo (Ukrainian and Russian: са́ло, Belarusian: са́ла, Hungarian: szalonna Polish: słonina, Bulgarian: сланина (slanina) or less often сало (salo), Macedonian: сланина (slanina), Romanian slănínă or slánă, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Czech and Slovak: slanina, Lithuanian: lašiniai) is a traditional Ukrainian, Russian and Eastern European food: cured slabs of fatback (rarely pork belly), with or without skin.
As a trend, the Eastern European one is salted or brine fermented, hence the names slonina/slana/szalonna (solonýna in Ukrainian and solonina in Russian mean any kind of salt-cured meat, such as corned beef). The Eastern European one is usually treated with paprika or other condiments, while the South European one is often smoked.
The Slavic word “salo” as applied to this type of food (it has other meanings as well) is often translated to English as “bacon” or “lard”. Unlike lard, salo is not rendered. Unlike bacon, salo is not necessarily bacon-cured. Salo has little or no meat (skeletal muscle), and low-meat high-fat bacon commonly is referred to as salo.
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