Italian deli shop

Italian delicatessen food from Calabrian Kitchen

Calabrian Kichen brings you quality specialist Italian deli and produce direct from Italy to your door.

Below you'll find our unique range of delicious antipasti and appetisers, in Italy they are called 'Sott'olio' literally meaning under oil. All our products have a simple food cycle so you know where they've come from. All our products below are grown and picked in the forests around Acri, Cosenza province, Calabria, Italy. Olives picked at lower altitudes. **No compromise on ingredients. Seeproduct info.

Pomodori Secchi

Sundried Tomatoes (314ml)

A classic. A generous helping of deep red tomatoes that have been dried in the midday Italian sun (mezzogiorno). These tomatoes infuse a wonderful aroma to the olive oil they are preserved in, which in turn can be used for dressings or simply with fresh bread. Also infusing in the olive oil is garlic and a few bay leaves. This jar is bursting with flavour.

Serving suggestion:as an antipasti with involtini melanzane, pate di olive and fresh bread drizzled with the oil.

Funghi Porcini

Porcini Mushrooms (314ml)

After the truffle there is the Porcini. La Sila is Europe's largest high altitude plateau with 32,125 acres of green rolling hills, dappled forests and lakes in places reaching 2000m. In summer it has a cool alpine climate, winter brings thick snow and spring an abundance of wildflowers but for mushroom pickers autumn is the most important season. A delectable and delicate taste that again infuses the olive oil. In Italy they are used in many ways particularly pasta salsa, always appreciating the quality of this desirable mushroom.

Ortofunghi Piccante

Mixed Spicy Mushrooms (314ml)

This vibrant delight, gives us a delicious taste with a little spice! The tradition of mushroom picking in Italy and particularly Calabria goes back centuries and these skills have been past on by generation to generation. The locals just tell us that they have always done it! And the time and tested tradional methods remain the same. Mixed mushrooms hand picked from La Sila, aubergine, olives, sundried tomatoes, spicy peppers all chopped together in olive oil. Delicious especially if you like something with bite!

Bocconcini Piccanti

Spicy Stuffed Red Peppers (314ml)

These mini spicy peppers have been individually stuffed with a scrumptious combination. An antipasti that has developed over the years, with a slightly modern twist incorporating tuna. But here at the Kitchen we won't grumble because it is truly yummy! We're sure once you've tasted it you'll agree!

Serving suggestion: Present four or five of these along with fresh bread and a few salad leaves for a fantastic antipasti/starter.

Pate di olive verde

Green Olive Pate (314ml)

80% of Italy's olive oil originates in Calabria and close neighbour Puglia. Fields with perfect rows of ancient olive trees populate the interior of Calabria. Knowing that it can take 50 to 100 years for a tree to start producing very high quality olives, one can further appreciate the exceptional taste of the olives these ancient twisted trees produce. Accompanying the olives is wild growing mountain fennel and oregano.

Serving suggestion: delicious with fresh crusty bread.

Pate di olive nere

Black Olive Pate (314ml)

These olives have been left on the trees longer to ripen.

Green or black olives...? Why not both.

Serving suggestion: delicious with fresh crusty bread.

Pomodori Ripieni

Sundried Tomatoes with Anchovy & Capers (314ml)

'Ripieni' refers to full or stuffed and one can agree that Pomodori Ripieni is stuffed full of flavour! The deep red pomodori secchi give a perfect canvas for the glistening silver of the anchovy aswell as the bay leaves. In Italy the anchovy is used in a wide range of dishes, with the salty taste bringing out flavour of your accompanying ingredients.

Serving suggestion: as an antipasti with a few slices of mozzarella.

Cipolline Calabrese

Calabrian Cipolla (mini Cipolla) (314ml)

A true Calabrian delicacy, that has been use in Italian cooking for centuries. Only found in Calabria, the traditional methods in finding these have not changed. The skills have been passed down from generation to generation. With each individual cipolla being dug up individually from about a foot underground, there is a lot of skill and work involved in obtaining these. But it's worth it! Give them a try...

Serving suggestion: great on the side with meat such as beef steak or lamb.

Involtini Melanzane

Aubergine and Anchovy (314ml)

Aubergine is a popular vegatable in Calabria, with its delicate taste brought out by the salt in the anchovies this like all the products is delicious. This jar is packed with aubergine slices soaking in the olive oil and presented with a bay leaf.

Serving suggestion: great as an antipasti, along with a leafy salad, fresh crusty bread or pomodori secchi (sundried tomatoes).

Piccantina

Mixed Spicy Mushrooms & Chilly Peppers (314ml)

With five different types of mushrooms, this vibrant jar is a mushroom lovers delight. Traditionally produced for the winter time, after the autumn mushroom picking season chillies would be added to give a spicy bite on a cold winters day when working in the fields.

Serving suggestion: traditionally eaten with crusty bread.

Picca Boom

Spicy Chillies (314ml)

Its in the name...BOOM! For those who love hot chillies. Simple and very diverse in is use in Italian cooking. In the summer these chillies can be seen hanging up outside grocers, street stalls and front doors. Great both fresh, and dried in the sun. The bright red chillies will definitely bring some colour to your cheaks!

Serving suggestion: very diverse: add a little to your pasta salsa or any dish to give it a kick, eat with crusty bread or even use it as a dip!