Do you have Porketta in your area?

[JessicaR]

I never heard of this! Is this an accurate picture? Anyone have a recipe that they make and like? Thanks!

 

[Crankyshank]

We have that here. I make it all of the time, but it's "porchetta"

 

[RUDisney]

This is what I'm used to seeing as a porketta roast.

 

[L107ANGEL]

This is what I'm used to seeing as a porketta roast.

thats it, we do ours in the slow cooker

 

[stillwater]

Grew up eating Porketta too -- a staple of the Iron Range. Other places I've had it, the seasonings are never done as well.

RUDisney, yours looks authentic. Sliced and served on a hard roll.

Anyone ever have Turkeyetta or Beefetta? Same seasonings on turkey or a beef roast.

 

[RUDisney]

I've had turketta, too. Not beef, though.

 

[Luv2Scrap]

I've had Beefetta. Blech!!!

 

[mickeyfan2]

I loved it as a kid, but cannot get it anymore.

 

[lilbeaks]

Much of the South and West side of the Lake Superior Region has a history with porketta. Porketta is distributed throughout Northeastern Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
It typically hails from iron mining towns where Italian immigrants moved to near the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
My family usually bought porketta roasts from Fred's Grocery in Nashwauk, Minn. A few places in Hibbing usually sell it too.
In the last decade stores in Duluth have begun to stock and sell it. The Italian Village in Duluth sells porketta sandwiches. The Pickwick of Duluth also sells a porketta sandwich.
Porketta is often served in one of two forms. The first is pulled porketta and the second is sliced porketta. Pulled porketta is just as it sounds. It is cooked whole and then shredded by hand afterwards. This is my favorite kind! Sliced porketta is either slin sliced like deli meat or sliced into quarter inch wide pieces.
I have observed an interesting correlation between areas that sell both porketta and pastys. It seems Italian miners brought their porketta with them and English Cornish miners brought their pastys with them. They usually worked in the same area, the Cornish men sinking nmine shafts and the Italian men laboring in the mines and local businesses.
Porketta is also spelled Porchetta. Since coming to America it has lost some of its preparation steps that it had in Italy.

 

[Jennasis]

Not here in NC...pig capitol of the US.

 

[Zandy595]

Never heard of it. I'm originally from Buffalo, NY and now live it FL.

Is it something you can make yourself?

 

[DisMN]

Yep we have it here........but then again I AM in northern MN. LOL LOL

They also make a turkeyetta now and it's just as amazing as the porketta. Yum!!
I must say this is a food that takes some getting used to..and it REALLY stinks your house up in a major way.

 

[DisMN]

I grew up eating it in northern Minnesota. I guess I hoped that nobody else was being subjected to it.

 

[mjkacmom]

Roast it as usual or cook it in the crockpot so you can shred it. If you do, you'll have marvelous sandwiches.


I always thought it was an Italian thing.

I live in a VERY Italian town, and have never heard of it.

 

[hercamore]

I live in SE MN, Rochester.

Don't think I've heard of Porchetta.


herc.

 

[savannahcat]

I live in WV, just west of Pittsburgh, PA. Never heard of it here.

 

[yoopermom]

Much of the South and West side of the Lake Superior Region has a history with porketta. Porketta is distributed throughout Northeastern Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
It typically hails from iron mining towns where Italian immigrants moved to near the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
My family usually bought porketta roasts from Fred's Grocery in Nashwauk, Minn. A few places in Hibbing usually sell it too.
In the last decade stores in Duluth have begun to stock and sell it. The Italian Village in Duluth sells porketta sandwiches. The Pickwick of Duluth also sells a porketta sandwich.
Porketta is often served in one of two forms. The first is pulled porketta and the second is sliced porketta. Pulled porketta is just as it sounds. It is cooked whole and then shredded by hand afterwards. This is my favorite kind! Sliced porketta is either slin sliced like deli meat or sliced into quarter inch wide pieces.
I have observed an interesting correlation between areas that sell both porketta and pastys. It seems Italian miners brought their porketta with them and English Cornish miners brought their pastys with them. They usually worked in the same area, the Cornish men sinking nmine shafts and the Italian men laboring in the mines and local businesses.
Porketta is also spelled Porchetta. Since coming to America it has lost some of its preparation steps that it had in Italy.

Exactly! When we moved here to the U.P. every meal we were invited to was either porketta or pasties, it seemed like. I put mine in the slow cooker and it's fork tender, yummmm....

Terri

 

[golfgal]

Grew up eating Porketta too -- a staple of the Iron Range. Other places I've had it, the seasonings are never done as well.

RUDisney, yours looks authentic. Sliced and served on a hard roll.

Anyone ever have Turkeyetta or Beefetta? Same seasonings on turkey or a beef roast.

Hey, are you from Stillwater, MN?? I grew up there and having grown up in Stillwater I have never heard of Porketta .

 

[Micca]

the only Porketta I know of is the girl at the liquor store.

 

[ginna74]

HMMM we just moved from Northern Min and I have ***heard of it, but never knew what it was.I was WAY northern before our last move too. Am in the middle I think now. I should probably ask the hubby as he was raised in Northern Minn.