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Typical
dishes
Typical
dishes of the Verona cuisine are:
“Bollito con la pearà”,
that is beef meat
with a sauce of grated bread, cheese,
marrow, broth and black pepper.
Ingredients:
- 250 gr. of beef marrow;
- 50 gr. of butter;
- 250 gr. of grated
bread;
- ½ litre of meet
broth;
- pepper, half very
finely ground and half
in grains;
- salt.
Also
“Gnocchi” is
a very delightful Verona
dish, made
of potatoes, white meal and
eggs. Taste it with tomato sauce or sugar
and cinnamon.
Ingredients:
- 200 gr. of wheat flour;
- 200 gr. corn flour;
- 2
eggs;
- salt.
The
“pastissada de
caval” is a thousand and
five hundred year old recipe. According
to the legend, in 489 a.C., after
the battle between Teodorico, king of the Ostrogoths, and Odoacre, king
of the
Barbarians, there were hundreds of horses
lying dead on the ground. The Verona
people, did
not want to waste all that
meat, and shredded it to macerate in
the Amarone wine. They aromatized the meat
with spices and vegetables to eat it
after cooking on a slow fire.
The
“polenta”
is the characteristic food of
poor/humble
farmers of the Po Valley,
which is prepared with corn flour
and cooked in salty water. To taste it “ the
Veronese way”, add very well cooked
beans (polenta infasolà) or game (polenta
e osei).
Also
the “tortelloni di zucca” are
a
speciality of the area; this dish is made with a
sort of dough that
is drawn as
thin as silk, cut and knotted like a scarf
and enriched by a delicate filling of
pumpkin.
Among
the desserts, the “pandoro” stands
out. It is the Christmas cake “par excellence”,
made of flour, eggs, sugar,
butter and yeast. It has a high and slender
shape with ribs in relief. It is
covered by vanilla sugar and it is very much
appreciated for its soft and light
paste, for its delicate taste and its pleasant
fragrance. It was prepared by
Domenico Melegatti in 1894 in his laboratory
in Porta
Borsari avenue. During the year you
can
taste short pastries,
puffs, fried bread chips
fritters, little beans and the” mandorlato” that is
a cake with lightly toasted and
baked almonds, with honey, sugar and pastries..
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