Lesso is a high-quality cooked ham made from fresh white pork legs selected at source for the production of PDO raw ham. The legs are left to rest with the bone in before being deboned in order to tenderise the meat. They are processed without the use of churns, with manual salting in the artery and steam cooking at high temperatures. Lesso is a clean, honest cooked ham with the sweet flavour of well-cooked pork (the name Lesso comes from the ancient Piedmontese tradition of boiling meat). It has an authentic appearance with good marbling in the lean meat. Free water value less than 0.98.
