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| ITALIAN RECIPES TRADITIONAL AND CREATIVE FIRST COURSES PASTA
Italian cuisine is also well known (and well regarded) for its use of a diverse variety of pasta. Pasta include noodles in various lengths, widths and shapes. Distinguished on shapes they are named- penne, maccheroni , spaghetti , linguine , fusilli , lasagne and many more varieties that are filled with other ingredients like ravioli and tortellini. The word pasta is also used to refer to dishes in which pasta products are a primary ingredient. It is usually served with sauce. There are hundreds of different shapes of pasta with at least locally recognized names.Examples include spaghetti (thin rods), macaroni (tubes or cylinders), fusilli (swirls), and lasagne (sheets). Two other noodles, gnocchi and spätzle, are sometimes considered pasta. They are both traditional in parts of Italy. Please note that all the recipes for first courses made with the following varieties of pasta: orecchiette, trofie, umbrichelli, strozzapreti can be made with spaghetti. The choose of special pasta varieties is due to the fact that traditionally the recipe is made with such specific variety and to the different flavor given from the combination with the a specific sauce. The recipes are proposed in order of arrival. The recipes are split into two pages: the ingredients table, with doses, cooking time and notes about ingredients and cooking techniques, linked to the text. The step-by-step explained and photographed recipe, with pictures of the finished dish and of each preparation step, is linked to the picture.
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