How many calories in cotechino and lentils
A plate of cotechino and lentils has about 600 kcal.
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Cotechino e lenticchie is what Italy eats around midnight on New Year's Eve, or for lunch on the first. Cotechino is a fat, soft pork sausage, sliced thick and laid on a bed of lentils.
A plate is about 600 kcal, with 30 g of protein, 35 g of carbs and 38 g of fat. The sausage brings most of the fat, the lentils bring the carbs and a good share of the protein.
The lentils look like little coins, so the more you eat, the more money you get next year. Zampone, the same filling stuffed into a pig's trotter, does the same job in some homes.
Tips
- 1Take fewer slices of cotechino and more lentils. The luck is in the lentils anyway.
- 2Skip the extra bread for mopping up. The lentils are already the starch.
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Questions
Why do Italians eat lentils at New Year?
They look like small coins, so eating them is meant to bring money in the new year.
Is cotechino high in protein?
The plate has about 30 g of protein, from the pork and the lentils together.
When do you eat cotechino and lentils?
Just after midnight on New Year's Eve, or at lunch on 1 January.
