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We have always liked it. There is the romantic water city of Venice and the ancient city of Rome. This place is very desirable, but if we talk about it, The one that makes people crave must be the famous Italian meal.

Italian meals are very rich and have their own eating order. They are very particular. They are mostly based on potatoes and potatoes. They are very popular among people from all over the world. So, let’s learn about it together. Let’s take a look at this Italian feast!

An authentic Italian dinner is generally divided into five courses: appetizer (Antipasto), first course (Primi), second course (Secondi), dessert (Dolce) and coffee (Caffè). Appetizers

Most appetizers in Italy are cold cuts, and the basic ingredients are nothing more than raw meat, bread, cheese and vegetables. At first glance, this combination is not amazing, but once paired with simple seasonings, the effect is often addictive.

Bruschetta

Toast the bread briefly and top with tomatoes, basil leaves, garlic, onions and buffalo mozzarella on one side. The crispiness of the bread and the freshness of the side dishes are combined together. Add olive oil before eating, and the cooking aroma is incomparable.

ProsciuttoeMelone

Place the salty ham slices on the sweet melon. The two flavors penetrate each other when eating, making it unforgettable.

InsalataCaprese

In addition to the above two meat and vegetable appetizers, InsalataCaprese is also a classic Italian cold dish with a high frequency of occurrence.

It consists mainly of buffalo mozzarella,

tomatoes and basil leaves. The colors of the three ingredients (white, red, and green) coincide with the three colors of the Italian flag, giving this Italian cold dish a unique meaning.

If you are a meat lover, ordering the Antipasti (Assortiti) with a selection of various hams and sausages will satisfy all your meat cravings. The first course: Noodles

After filling our hunger with appetizers, we got to the point. Generally speaking, the first and second courses are the essence of the entire set of Italian dishes and are also the most important criteria for considering whether a restaurant is authentic or not. Italian first courses mainly consist of various pastas and risotto.

The second course includes a variety of seafood and meat. Let’s talk about pasta first. Now that you have come to Italy, you must try it. As the saying goes, it’s better to taste it than to hear it a hundred times. Pasta is made of durum wheat flour and can be roughly divided into long noodles, wide noodles, short noodles, flower noodles, micro noodles and stuffed noodles in terms of shape.

It’s not enough to just have noodles, you also have to have sauce. Sauces are generally divided into four types: red sauce, green sauce, white sauce and dark sauce. Different pasta shapes and sauces, as well as differences in season and region, create thousands of pasta combinations.

Spaghettialla Carbonara

Tagliatelleal Ragu

Lasagne

Naples Fireworks Girl Noodles (Spaghettialla Puttanesca)

Venice Squid Ink Noodles (Vermicellial Nerodi Seppia)

Italian Seafood Spaghetti (Spaghettiallo Scoglio) First Course: Rice

In addition to noodles, Italians also eat , Italian risotto is called Risotto. Although there are not as many combinations of risotto as there are noodles, its cooking process adheres to the most common point of Italian cuisine, which is "pay attention to".

RisottoallaMilanese

During the cooking process, the uncooked rice absorbs the aroma of olive oil, onions, wine and stock in turn, and requires the chef to be extremely patient under the precise heat. Stir constantly, and add butter before putting it in the pot, allowing the butter to melt in the residual heat of the rice.

Add seafood, mushrooms, vegetables, meat or cheese according to different tastes. A good risotto should be cooked but not mushy, chewy and chewy, and have a creamy cooking aroma brought by butter.

The most famous risotto is Milanese risotto (Risotto

alla

Milanese).

It consists of onions, saffron, cream, Parmesan cheese, butter and white wine. As one of the most expensive spices in the world today, saffron is used here as the finishing touch. It only needs a very small amount to make the color of the entire dish come alive! The second course: meat

You may ask, what if I don’t like noodles or rice, or I still don’t feel full after eating the first dish? It doesn’t matter. The second course below is an out-and-out hard dish.

Those familiar dishes, such as Florentine Steak (Bistecca

alla Fiorentina), Roman Lamb Chop (Abbacchioalla Scottadito), Ligurian Rabbit (Coniglioalla)

Ligure), etc., are regulars as the second course on the menu.

Florentine Steak (Bisteccaalla Fiorentina)

Roman Lamb Chops (Abbacchioalla Scottadito)

Ligurian Rabbit (Coniglioalla Ligure)

Fried Small Steak (CotolettaallaMilanese)

Stewed Ossobuco (Ossobuco)

Beef Tripe Soup (TrippaallaMilanese)

Among them, Stewed Ossobuco is the specialty among the specialties. . Its production process is very sophisticated. First, cut the upper part of the calf into 3 cm thick slices, lightly coat the surface with flour, and fry in butter until golden brown.

Then add vegetables, tomato paste, white wine and soup into the pot and stew until the bones and flesh are separated. This dish is usually paired with Milanese risotto to form a substantial Milanese main dish! Friends who travel to Milan must not miss the fixed combination of the two!

Ossobuco means in Italian It's "a bone with a hole in it." Legend has it that the most classic way to eat it is to put a small spoon into the hole and slowly scrape out the bone marrow, then put it on freshly baked bread and eat it with the bread.

If you are interested, you might as well try it, maybe it will impress the locals! Desserts

After talking about salty things, let’s talk about something sweet. Many people go to Italy for the tiramisu. During one trip to Italy, they have almost eaten all the tiramisu in their lives.

In fact, Italy has many exquisite and delicious desserts, such as the Venetian donut (Frittelle), the designated dessert of the Venice Carnival, one of the three major carnivals in the world; the Sicilian dessert card made famous by the movie "The Godfather" Cannoli is a representative Italian dessert.

Venice Donuts (Frittelle)

Cannoli Cheese Rolls (Cannoli)

Panettone

What desserts are worth trying in Milan? Panettone is one of the most representative Christmas desserts in Milan. A cylindrical bread filled with raisins, lemon peel and preserved fruit, sometimes with some cream cheese or white chocolate.

This special holiday dessert originated in Milan takes a long time to make because the dough mixing and rising needs to be done step by step many times in order to make the baked bread soft and delicious. time.

If you feel tired, have a piece of panettone and a cup of hot drink or liqueur. It’s really a different kind of enjoyment! Coffee

After the Chinese eat, There is always a habit of making a cup of tea. It is also customary for Italians to make coffee instead of tea after a meal. Coffee is to them what tea is to the Chinese, a culture that has penetrated into their bones.

The perfect ending to an Italian meal is a small cup of Italian espresso (Caffè

espresso). When you are in Italy, of course you should do as the Romans do. , don’t miss this perfect ending!

Okay, that’s it for the editor’s introduction to Italian feasts. I hope you all like the editor’s introduction. If you have the opportunity to come to Italy in the future, , you must try this authentic Italian food to make your visit here not in vain.