Italian dinners are very rich, with their own diet order, and they are very particular. Most of them are potatoes and potatoes, which are very popular with people all over the world. Then, let's learn about this Italian meal together!
Authentic Italian dinner is generally divided into five courses: appetizer, Primi, Secondi, Dolce and Caff.
antipasto
Italian appetizers are mostly cold dishes, and the basic ingredients are raw meat, bread, cheese and vegetables. This kind of collocation is not amazing at first glance, but once it is paired with simple spices, the result is often fondle admiringly.
Italian bread
After baking the bread a little, put aside the tomatoes, basil leaves, garlic, onions and buffalo cheese. The crispness of bread is combined with the freshness of side dishes. Add olive oil before eating. It is delicious.
Italian smoked ham and melon
Slice the salty ham on the sweet cantaloupe, and the two flavors permeate each other when eating, which makes people unforgettable.
Insalata Caprese
In addition to the above two appetizers with vegetarian dishes, Insalata Caprese is also a classic Italian cold dish with a high occurrence rate.
It is mainly composed of buffalo cheese, tomatoes and basil leaves. The colors of the three ingredients (white, red and green) are consistent with the colors of the Italian flag, giving this Italian cold dish a unique meaning.
If you are a meat lover, you can order an appetizer with all kinds of ham and sausage to satisfy all your cravings for meat.
: 20 10-20 10 After filling our stomachs with appetizers, let's cut to the chase. Generally speaking, the first course and the second course are the essence of the whole Italian cuisine, and they are also the most important criteria to consider the authenticity of the restaurant. The first course of Italian food is mainly composed of various spaghetti and risotto.
The second course contains all kinds of seafood and meat. Let's start with spaghetti. Since we are in Italy, we must try it. The so-called "seeing is believing, so that's it" pasta is made of Duran wheat flour, which can be roughly divided into long noodles, wide noodles, short noodles, flower noodles, micro noodles and stuffing noodles.
It is not enough to have a face. You must have sauce. Sauces are generally divided into red sauce, green sauce, white sauce and black sauce. Pasta with different shapes and sauces, plus different seasons and regions, are matched with thousands of kinds of pasta.
Baked spaghetti with cheese
Sausage noodles with meat sauce
Lasagna (lasagna)
Spaghetti alla Puttanesca (Neapolitan fireworks face)
Venice cuttlefish noodles
Spaghetti allo Scoglio
The first way: noodles
Besides noodles, Italians also eat risotto, which is called risotto. Although the collocation of risotto is not as much as noodles, its cooking technique inherits the similarity of Italian food, that is, "exquisiteness".
risotto
In the cooking process, raw rice absorbs the aroma of olive oil, onion, wine and broth in turn, and the chef needs to stir patiently at a precise temperature. Add butter before cooking and melt the butter in the waste heat of rice.
Add seafood, mushrooms, vegetables, meat or cheese according to different tastes. Good risotto should be cooked rice grains but not soft and rotten, elastic and chewy to bite, and creamy cooking aroma brought by butter. The most famous risotto is risotto.
It consists of onion, saffron, cream, parmesan cheese, butter and white wine. As one of the most expensive spices in the world, saffron is used to make the finishing touch here. A small amount of saffron can liven up the whole dish!
First course: rice.
You may ask, I don't like noodles, I don't like rice, or I don't feel full after the first course. It doesn't matter. The second course below is all hard dishes.
Those famous dishes, such as Bistecca alla Fiorentina, Abbacchioalla Scottadito and Ligurian Rabbit, are frequent visitors to the second course on the menu.
Florence steak
Roman roast lamb chop
Liguria rabbit meat
Fried veal steak
Stewed Achyranthes bidentata
Tripa Ala tripe soup
Stewed Achyranthes bidentata is one of the characteristics. Its production technology is very elegant. First, cut the calf's upper leg into 3cm thick pieces, wrap some flour on the surface and fry it in yellow oil until golden brown.
Then add vegetables, tomato sauce, white wine and thick soup to the pot and stew until the flesh and blood are separated. This dish, together with Milan risotto, usually forms a very weighty Milan main course! Friends who travel to Milan must not miss the fixed combination of the two!
Ossobuco means "bone with holes" in Italian. Legend has it that the most classic way to eat is to put a small spoon into the hole and slowly scrape off the bone marrow, then put it on the freshly baked bread and eat it with the bread.
If you are interested, you might as well give it a try. Maybe it will impress the locals!
The second course: meat
Say salty before sweet. Many people go to Italy to eat tiramisu. They went to Italy and ate Tiramisu almost all their lives.
In fact, there are many exquisite and delicious desserts in Italy. For example, Venice Carnival, one of the three largest carnivals in the world, has designated the dessert Venice doughnut. The Sicilian dessert-cream sweet roll, which is famous for the film The Godfather, is a masterpiece of Italian dessert.
Venice doughnut (Frittelle)
Canori cheese roll (cream sweet roll)
Panduoni bread (Panettone)
What are the desserts worth tasting in Milan? Panettone bread is one of the most representative Christmas desserts in Milan. Cylindrical bread with raisins, lemon peel and preserved fruit, and sometimes cream cheese or white chocolate.
This special holiday dessert originated in Milan takes a long time to make, because in the preparation process, the dough must be stirred and proofed step by step several times to make the baked bread soft and delicious.
If you feel tired, a piece of bread and a cup of hot drink or sweet wine is really a different kind of enjoyment!
: People in China always have the habit of making tea after meals. It is also a habit for Italians to make coffee instead of tea after meals. For them, just as tea is for China people, coffee is a culture that permeates the bones.
The perfect ending of an Italian meal is a small cup of coffee. In Italy, of course, do as the Romans do, and you can't miss this perfect ending!
Ok, here is the introduction of Italian food. I hope you like Bian Xiao's introduction. If you have a chance to come to Italy in the future, you must try this authentic Italian food. It won't be for nothing.