How to Create a Rose Salami for a Charcuterie Board

Are you Wondering How to make Charcuterie Roses?

Perhaps you’ve seen the incredible photos of charcuterie boards online or on Instagram and wonder how to make salami roses for your next board.

Creating a rose salami is easy and can be put together in just a few minutes. These meat flowers add an element of fancy to your next charcuterie board. Below you can find exactly how to create an easy and simply rose salami with step by step instruction as well as examples of how to use a charcuterie rose on your next board.

What is a Rose Salami?

A rose salami or charcuterie rose is a simple arrangement of salami that resembles a rose or flower. There are several other ways to make a flower from salami or other cured meats, but a rosa salami is easy to make and a beautiful addition to any charcuterie board. A only equipment you need to create a rose charcuterie board is a wine glass or champagne flute and sliced salami. There really isn’t any best salami rose wine glass, and you can simply use what you have at home.

Salami Rose Tutorial

A rose Salami can be made in just a few minutes, so there is no need to make this food decoration in advance. Simple gather the ingredients for your board including sliced salami and a champagne flute. When choosing salami, you need at least 8 slices. Ideally more slices will give you a more robust salami rose. You can buy salami or sliced meats at most grocery stores, or order it online. Sliced meat also comes is a range of sizes – if you are working with very small salami slices, you will want to use a glass with a small circumference – the larger the salami, the larger the glass. You can also use a wine or water glass, but we like the size of the champagne flute.

Step 1

Separate your slices of salami and place the first slice over the top of the edge of the glass. Gently press the salami piece into a place. The salami should be folded in half over the rim of the glass.

Place the second piece of salami overlapping the first piece and press it into place gently.

Continue folding the pieces of salami over the glass going around in a circle.

Step 2

Continue pressing the salami slices in a circle around the glass until you have enough pieces. You will want to use a minimum of 8 slices, but more will give you a better rose. After all the pieces are in place, gently press the pieces into place.

Flip the glass upside down and gently press down to help the rose salami hold its place.

Lift the glass and see your beautiful salami rose! If you aren’t happy with the appearance, you can flip the rose back into the rim of the cup and redo the flower or add more salami. The flower will also stay together relatively well and you can move it around on the charcuterie board as needed.

How to Serve Salami Roses

A salami rose makes a perfect addition to any charcuterie board and are often the centerpiece to a beautiful board creation. Look below to see a few examples of how to place charcuterie board salami roses for a beautiful and delicious display.

Add your rose charcuterie to a classic Italian charcuterie board with olives, mozzarella balls, mushrooms and more for a simple and classic look.

Use your charcuterie meat rose as the centerpiece of a charcuterie wreath in this festive Christmas charcuterie board.

charcuterie board meat flowers as the centerpiece of a charcuterie wreath

Add a charcuterie rose to a edible focaccia bread charcuterie board.

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