Indiana Salami Jalapeno

Indiana Salami Jalapeno: a snack stick with a green chilli streak

Indiana Salami Jalapeno is a dried pork-and-bacon sausage snack with green jalapeno running through it. An 18 g stick that eats like a slice off a charcuterie board rather than a strip of jerky, built in the same dry-sausage style as Indiana's Salami Original, then pushed somewhere warmer.

Why this one

• Heat that stays civil: jalapeno gives a clean, green, vegetal burn instead of the slow chilli scorch you get from the Hot & Sweet jerky.
• The rich end of the range: pork and bacon together, so this is the properly fatty, properly satisfying option rather than the lean one.
• No fridge involved: it lives in a jacket pocket or a desk drawer until you want it.
• Single stick or a box of twenty: one to find out, twenty once you know.

How Indiana makes it

Indiana cures pork and bacon, spices the mix, smokes it and dries it down into one firm stick, then seals the pack under a protective atmosphere. That is why it keeps on a shelf with no cooling at all. The best-before date is printed on the front of the pack. If a pale chalky bloom shows up on the surface, that is salt crystallising out of the cure, and you can eat it.

Taste and texture

It gives under the teeth the way good salami does, marbled and soft rather than stringy. Cured pork lands first, bacon smoke sits behind it, and the jalapeno arrives last as a grassy warmth that spreads slowly and then backs off before the next bite. Next to the Salami Original it tastes brighter and greener; next to Indiana's dried beef it is a completely different animal.

When to reach for it

Beer and a wooden board. Sharp cheese, hot mustard, dark rye. Or standing in the kitchen at six deciding that dinner is still an hour away and that this is not acceptable.

Frequently asked

How hot is it really? Warm, not punishing. Jalapeno sits at the mild end of the chilli scale, and the fat in the sausage stops the heat spreading.

Does it need refrigerating? No. Somewhere cool and dry is plenty. A stick is one serving, so once it is unwrapped there is nothing left to store.

How is it different from the Salami Original? Same dry-sausage base, same soft bite. The jalapeno version adds a green chilli lift the Original does not have.

Order Indiana Salami Jalapeno at Jerky Store Europe

In stock as a single 18 g stick or a twenty-stick box, and shipping fast across Europe from Jerky Store Europe.