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Salmon Penne Pasta

Salmon Penne Pasta

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Salmon Penne Pasta with cream is a recipe that you can prepare in a short time, is simply because they serve few ingredients, it is liked by everyone and always does her beautiful shape.           Ingredients: 300 g of Penne Pasta 100 g of...

Pasta with Pesto

Pasta with Pesto

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The basic recipe for pasta with pesto (basil sauce) is very easy if you have the right ingredients. Put in a pot 2 liters of water and warm up until it bubbles. Add a spoon of salt and taste it. Only after that, add the pasta and continue to cook without lowering the...

Traditional Pizzoccheri

Traditional Pizzoccheri

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Traditional Pizzoccheri of the Pastificio Chiavenna, are produced according to ancient local traditions and made with durum wheat flour and buckwheat flour better form a kind of food containing high protein food and natural fibers. Pasta made from buckwheat contains...

Tomato Sauce Pasta

Tomato Sauce Pasta

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Tomato sauce pasta is the symbol dish of Italian cuisine. It is a very easy recipe but it ‘s important to cook correctly to have a great result. For this recipe, you can use the format of pasta that you prefer long and short: penne, fusilli, spaghetti, tagliatelle....

Penne with Amatriciana Sauce

Penne with Amatriciana Sauce

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Pasta with Amatriciana sauce is a traditional, zesty Italian pasta sauce, based on guanciale, (salt-cured pork jowl), pecorino cheese and tomato. Originating from the town of Amatrice (in the mountainous Province of Rieti of Lazio region), the Amatriciana is one of...

Tagliatelle with Mushroom Sauce

Tagliatelle with Mushroom Sauce

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Tagliatelle with Mushroom Sauce is a classic autumn dish, flavourful and easy to prepare. Some variations of the recipe calls for cream, which however covers the taste of the mushrooms somewhat. It’s best to use fresh mushrooms, but you can also use dried ones, making...

Spaghetti with Bolognese Sauce

Spaghetti with Bolognese Sauce

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Bolognese ragu may be the most famous Italian sauce in the world, along with pesto. Outside Italy spaghetti with bolognese sauce is usually thought of as a spaghetti sauce, but this goes against tradition. It is usually used with special kinds of pasta like...

Spaghetti with Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Spaghetti with Extra Virgin Olive Oil

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Spaghetti with Extra Virgin Olive Oil is the most simple dish. There are four basic types of olive oil and the Italian government strictly controls every single bottle before allowing it to bear the “extra-virgin” seal. The only oils which can qualify are those which...

Pasta & Beans

Pasta & Beans

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Pasta & Beans is more of a soup, prepared with different variations throughout Italy, where it spread immediately after the import of the first beans from the Americas, where they were one of the three pillars of native diets, together with maize and squash. At...

Carbonara Spaghetti

Carbonara Spaghetti

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Carbonara Spaghetti is an Italian pasta dish from Rome based on eggs, cheese (Pecorino Romano or Parmigiano-Reggiano), bacon (guanciale or pancetta), and black pepper. Spaghetti is usually used as the pasta; however, fettuccine, rigatoni, linguine or bucatini can also...

Classic Italian Lasagna

Classic Italian Lasagna

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Classic Italian Lasagna made from scratch, bubbling with cheeses, and oozing Bolognese sauce, is easier than you think to make and it is absolutely delicious. The best Classic Italian Lasagna recipe is made with home-made ingredients, including the eggs pasta, meat...

Tiramisù with Panettone

Tiramisù with Panettone

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Tiramisù with Panettone is a popular coffee-flavored Italian dessert. Tiramisù (meaning “pick me up”) and it is made of ladyfingers dipped in coffee, layered with a whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, and mascarpone cheese, flavored with cocoa. The recipe has been adapted...

Minestrone

Minestrone

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Minestrone is a thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice. Common ingredients include; beans, onions, celery, carrots, stock, and tomatoes. There is no set recipe for minestrone since it is usually made out of whatever...

Polenta

Polenta

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Polenta is a Central European dish, popular in northern Italy, this is the perfect dish to pair with almost anything. Polenta is made when cornmeal is boiled in water, resulting in a grits-like consistency. Once this warm dish is made, it’s baked, grilled, fried, or...

Pizza Margherita

Pizza Margherita

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Pizza Margherita is to many the true Italian flag. According to popular tradition, in 1889, 28 years after the unification of Italy, during a visit to Naples of Queen Margherita of Savoy, wife of King Umberto I, chef Raffaele Esposito of Pizzeria Brandi and his wife...

Milanese Risotto

Milanese Risotto

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Milanese Risotto (or Saffron Risotto) is a north Italian rice dish cooked in a broth to a creamy consistency. The broth can be derived from meat, fish, or vegetable. Many types of risotto contain butter, wine, and onion. It is one of the most common ways of cooking...

Rice Arancine

Rice Arancine

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Rice Arancine are stuffed rice balls, which are coated with breadcrumbs, and fried. Arancini are usually filled with ragù (meat and tomato sauce), mozzarella, and peas. There are a number of local variants that differ in fillings and shape. The name derives from their...

Milanese Cotoletta

Milanese Cotoletta

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Milanese Cotoletta (Milanese after its place of origin, Milan) is a fried cutlet similar to Wiener schnitzel, but cooked “bone-in”. It is fried in clarified butter only and traditionally uses exclusively milk-fed veal or chicken.          ...

Polpette

Polpette

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Polpette (meatballs) in Italy are generally eaten as a main course or in a soup. The main ingredients of an Italian meatball are beef and/or pork and sometimes poultry, salt, black pepper, chopped garlic, olive oil, Romano cheese, eggs, breadcrumbs, and parsley, mixed...

Cacciucco

Cacciucco

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Cacciucco is an Italian fish stew native to the western coastal towns of Tuscany and Liguria. It is especially associated with the port city of Livorno in Tuscany and the town of Viareggio to the north. It is a hearty stew consisting of several different types of fish...

Calzone

Calzone

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Calzone is an Italian filled oven pizza, originating in Naples, and shaped as a folded pizza. It resembles a half-moon and is made of salted bread dough. A typical calzone is baked in an oven and stuffed with salami or ham, mozzarella, ricotta, and parmesan or...

Eggplant Parmigiana

Eggplant Parmigiana

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Eggplant Parmigiana called "parmigiana di melanzane" or "melanzane alla parmigiana", is an Italian dish made with a shallow or deep-fried sliced aubergine filling, layered with cheese and tomato sauce, and then baked. Parmigiana made with a filling of eggplant (also...

Cacciatora Chicken

Cacciatora Chicken

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Cacciatora Chicken is a typical Italian second course. Cacciatore means “hunter” in Italian. In cuisine, alla cacciatora refers to a meal prepared “hunter-style” with onions, herbs, usually tomatoes, often bell peppers, and sometimes wine. Cacciatore is popularly made...

Piadina Romagnola

Piadina Romagnola

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Piadina Romagnola is a thin Italian flatbread, typically prepared in the Romagna region. It is usually made with white flour, lard or olive oil, salt, and water. The dough was traditionally cooked in a terracotta dish, although nowadays flat pans or electric griddles...

Porcini Mushrooms Risotto

Porcini Mushrooms Risotto

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Porcini Mushrooms Risotto presses all the right buttons, with intense porcini mushrooms and plump arborio rice. Risotto is a north Italian rice dish cooked in a broth to a creamy consistency. The broth can be derived from meat, fish, or vegetable. Many types of...

Caprese Salad

Caprese Salad

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Caprese salad is an extremely simple Italian salad. It consists of sliced fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, and seasoned with salt, and drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. It was made to resemble the colors of the Italian flag: red, white, and green. In...