What are some traditional Italian dishes?
Well there are actually a lot of traditional Italian dishes, but I’ll name a few.Pizza Margherita- thin crust pizza, similar to baked pitaGELATO! - Yeah, it’s basically the Italian word for ice cream, so I guess you could argue that it IS ice cream, but it’s got a dense, milky texture that's less creamy than the fat heavy American-style ice creamTIRAMISU (yes, I am a dessert person)- Coffee-flavored, layered dessert; looks like this and it’s REALLY GOOD!Pasta Carbonara- Italian pasta dish; based on eggs, cheese, bacon, and black pepper. Spaghetti is usually used as the pasta; however, fettuccine, rigatoni, linguine or bucatini can also be used.Risotto- Rice dish cooked in a broth to a creamy consistency. The broth can be derived from meat, fish, or vegetable; contain butter, wine and onionAnd my favorite pasta: RAVIOLI!- Type of dumpling composed of a filling sealed between two layers of thin pasta dough. Usually served either in broth or with a pasta sauceEnjoy! <3
What are some traditional Italian Christmas dishes?
Italy does not really have national festive dishes, our cuisine as well as our way of celebrating are far more regional than national. My family is from Emilia Romagna and we do not celebrate Christmas Eve (some families do, not ours). On Christmas we usually start with an antipasto assortment that always includes anchovies in a spicy sauce by Rizzoli (this is the traditional brand).Then we have have anolini in a meat broth.Followed by a medley of boiled meats which include chicken, beef and cotechino (a sausage made with pork meat, fat, and most relevantly rind).Along with the meats we always serve pì, a large dumpling of breadcriumbs, grated Parmigiano Reggiano, egg and other ingredients which is boiled int he meat stock and sliced.The sides include sacrao, a sort of quick cooked kraut.Mostarda, a sweet and hot fruit preserve, somewhat similar to chutney.Finally we have the desserts: spongata and panettone.I am actually not a big fan of panettone, though. I much prefer anello del monaco, which is a traditional cake from Mantua.This is actually my family’s light version of the festive meal, as we usually skip the other two traditional meals. In the more traditional version there ought to be a roast and either a chicken or rabbit stew.
What’s the most underrated traditional Italian dish?
SquidIt is no surprise to me that the most requested answer in this session is about food.Food was a huge part of my family when I was a kid, and I’ll address this in another question.My great grandfather on my mother’s fathers side ate pasta.Every. Single. Day.People think of pasta when they think of Italy, and I can understand why. I’ve never been to Italy. My mom’s Dad made almost yearly trips back there to see cousins, and it was perfectly acceptable to shout at a stranger around the street corner if they would like some of the leftover pasta you made for dinner.No joke. However, I think pasta is a bit overrated.Something I recently found out is that a portion of my family grew up in a coastal area and some of them were fisherman by trade.Seafood is a huge part of a lot of Italian’s diet, and being somewhat of a pescatarian myself, I find a lot of people really don’t acknowledge that fish, and seafood are the secret love of Italian cuisine.Pizza (that we know of today) is an American invention, and is not really an “Italian food” in the original sense.My family apparently really liked squid. My mother talked about that she remembers squid (which some people refer to as Calamari) as being something that was regularly enjoyed by the family.In fact, it is from Italy that we get this dish. [1]Footnotes[1] The origin of an appetizer: A look at the creation of calamari
Can you give me some traditional italian foods?
speghetti I think they like that
What is your favorite Italian food?
This is probably going to sound as boring as watching paint dry but here goes because it was my ultimate favorite.Almost every Sunday we had spaghetti and sauce. My father made it always from scratch, never from a jar. However, all the meat that was eaten Monday to Friday (almost all except fish) was put into the pot to simmer all day. Not just simmering for 4 hours, I'm talking early morning 8 a.m. till dinner at 6 p.m. Slowly cooking. Slowly teasing my nostrils. Everyone checking out the clock to see how many hours till we can dig in. Every once in awhile I'd sneak a scrumptious taste and have it swim in my mouth before I swallowed. In that huge, luscious, aroma filled pot was - roast, chicken, meatballs, and pork. That sauce was so thick you could practically cut it with a knife. It wasn't a thin red drippy sauce but thick, dark mahogany color. Every morsel of meat was soaked up in that red deliciousness that we called Sunday sauce.Plus there was always very fresh hot Italian bread to sop up any remains around the plate.Everyone's taste buds did a happy dance at 6 p.m. every Sunday.Addition: someone asked if the meat that was put in there was already eaten. I seriously don't know how that could be. That would be disgusting - to eat it then put it back in the pot??? I don't know how any other Italian family cooked/ate but my father cooked for an army. Always leftovers. If someone came unexpectedly during dinner time, there was always a plate for them. No need to scramble looking for food to serve. Therefore, all the LEFTOVERS went in the sauce pot.
What are some favourite Italian dishes that Italians love?
Italians love a lot of different things as the cuisine in Italy varies a lot from city to city.My advice to you would be to make something that you know how to make well & forgiving (i.e. that has lots of latitude for individual taste).I would humbly suggest:Start with raw vegetables: fennel, carrots and celery with a very good extra-virgin olive oil (like the most expensive you can find at the local super market made out of Italian Olives picked and pressed in Italy) & a few drops of Aceto Balsamico di Modena aged 15 years.Follow with a lasagna. There is so much latitude in lasagna you can hardly screw it up. Make sure to use fresh pasta. You can substitute bechamelle sauce with mozzarella.Make a nice caprese salad sprinkled with the same Aceto BalsamicoOffer a sorbetto al limone between the lasagna and the caprese (just a spoon to refresh the palate)Close with a Tiramisu or any homemade desserts. Make an original Tiramisu with fresh eggs and no cream. It’s easy, and wonderful.Make sure you have both bread (like nice bakery bread) and wine on the tableMake sure there is water on the table (better sparkling water like San Pellegrino)The only ‘allowed’ topic of conversation during the meal is ‘food’. Italians are weird like that. We consider any other topic while eating ‘bad form’. We consider insulting discussing “Money, Health and Help Staff”.Hope this helps.
What are some of your favorite dishes?
I presume that you mean foods that I'm prepared to cook myself, rather than things that I'd only eat in restaurants. I have a very good recipe for Lasagna and I feel a bit like Garfield when eating it.I love roast meat. I usually roast either chicken or pork because I can afford them. Beef is a special treat and a turkey is really too large for one, though I sometimes buy one for Christmas. Another meat that I cook sometimes is duck, stuffed with a traditional sage and onion stuffing. I do the usual things with roast meat, vegetables and potatoes, plus Yorkshire pudding with beef. I nearly always cook mushrooms with my roast, though not with duck. When I have a chicken, I often stuff it with whole mushrooms and squirt lemon juice over the bird and sprinkle it with thyme. Another joint that I like is gammon but rather than roasting it, I usually boil it. Sometimes I poach it in (alcoholic) cider with a number of vegetables, things like leek, carrots, onions and cauliflower. The whole lot can be eaten and the meat and vegetable flavoured cider makes a nice broth.I do like my puddings and I often make apple crumble, rhubarb fool, chocolate sponge pudding with chocolate sauce, rice pudding and a number of lemon puddings.I often make soups and the other day I made Vichyssoise. It was really good and easily the best Vichyssoise I've ever had. I also make and like cream of celeriac soup, carrot and garlic soup, celery soup and lettuce soup.