Seeking information about: prosciutto

[maria del rocio]

what can I use to substitute it?

[Zeldaz]

In what application? Recipe number?

[pinky kookie]

Here is this answer for you:

There are a few other options:
Pancetta but only for a cooked dish. Other suggestions would be an lean ham. Serrano or Black Forest would be your best choices. If you can't find those then I would go with a Canadian bacon.

If you use regular bacon make sure you blanch it first in boiling water for a few minutes, then rinse and drain.

[Dee514]

As stated above, one would need to know the recipe or how you are going to use it to suggest a proper substitute.
Being Italian, I personally think Canadian bacon is a very poor substitute, as it does not have the texture, or saltiness of prosciutto. (Canadian bacon can also have a smoky flavor that prosciutto does not have - prosciutto is salt cured and dried, it is not smoked .)
I would stick with Serrano ham as a substitute.