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Dishes from Italy
13 total
Porchetta
Herb-stuffed boneless pork roast with crackling skin.
Fritto Misto
Lightly battered mixed seafood fried until crisp.
Stecchi
Italian fruit skewers dipped in hot chocolate — strawberries, melon, pineapple, and banana on bamboo sticks, served at Italian festivals and as a quick home dessert.
Bruschetta
Grilled bread rubbed with garlic and piled with ripe tomato.
Fusilli
Fusilli is a classic spiral-shaped pasta with deep ridges that grip sauce well, made from durum wheat semolina and popular across Italy.
Lumache
A short, ridged Italian pasta shaped like a small snail shell, tossed in Tuscan ragù, walnut sauces, ricotta and spinach, or simple garlic and oil so the sauce catches in the spiral.
Sugo di Funghi
A rich northern and central Italian mushroom sauce slow-cooked with soffritto, garlic, white wine, tomato and mixed porcini, champignon and dried porcini for pasta, polenta, risotto and bruschetta.
Inbriago
A wine-soaked sponge cake from the Marche region of Italy — pricked, drenched in dry red wine, and flavoured with citrus and pine nuts. Dense, darkly stained, and traditionally served with the same wine.
Lanterne
Lanterne is a short, grooved pasta from central and southern Italy, shaped so that its ridged surface catches and holds sauce in every fold.
Panini
Italian pressed sandwich of ciabatta or filone filled with cured meats, mozzarella and pesto, warmed on a ridged grill until the crust crisps.
Polenta
Creamy or grilled cornmeal, the staple of the north.
Chinotto
From Italy, Chinotto is a well-known drink.
Olive Ascolane
A celebrated Italian appetizer of large green Ascolano olives, pit removed in a spiral curl and stuffed with a sautéed blend of veal, beef, pork, Parmigiano and soffritto, breaded and deep-fried until crisp.